By John Glenday

A BBC children’s animation depicting a toast soldier decapitating a cowering boiled egg with a butter knife has sparked outrage in the pages of the Daily Mail and The Sun after one mother likened the clip to an ‘ISIS-style’ execution.

Angela Halliwell has complained to Ofcom about the short alleging that the breakfast table battle amounts to ‘extreme violence’ and could normalise the act of beheading.

The controversy centres on a one minute long clip from an episode of The OOglies broadcast on CBBC which is now available on iPlayer – despite it having been first shown in April 2012 before the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum