JAN MOIR: And the award for endless woke lectures and treating us like idiots goes to... David Tennant

The awards season has barely begun but already the sea of cringe is at high tide, coming in fast. Take your pick from the ick. The Bafta Film Awards 2025 (BBC1) was practically unwatchable, and not just because host David Tennant got his jock on for his opening number, wearing a kilt and singing a Proclaimers song, causing Scots everywhere to upchuck their porridge in horror.

This, on top of Wee Nicola, the rugby and everything else. Haven't we suffered enough?. Why was Tennant even there? It is less than a year since he famously told Kemi Badenoch to 'shut up' and wished for a world in which she 'doesn't exist any more' because he disagreed with her views on trans rights.

If the former Doctor Who star had been so publicly abusive to a darling of the Left, such as Jess Phillips or even Labour's deputy leader St Ange of Mange, it is unlikely he would even have been allowed a cheap seat at the back of the Bafta audience, let alone given the honour of hosting it.

Yet we all know that in luvvieland, there are acceptable opinions and there are unacceptable opinions. There are those who are venerated and never criticised and then there is the Conservative Party and Donald Trump, upon whom you can shovel any amount of steaming abuse.

Describing The Brutalist as 'a film about incredible architecture', Tennant told the audience: 'It's the boldest architecture in film this year, apart from Donald Trump's hair in The Apprentice.'. Laugh? I thought I'd never start. The only funny thing was that it was David's own hair that looked absolutely ridiculous, currently dyed an unforgiving shade of cowpat bronze for his recurring role as Crowley in Neil Gaiman's fantasy TV series Good Omens.

Host David Tennant at the Bafta Film Awards 2025 wore a kilt and sang a Proclaimers song. Speaking of which, for a man who always positions himself on the side of the righteous, way up there on the moral high ground, Tennant has been remarkably quiet about the accusations of sexual assault against his friend Gaiman.

Over the past year, eight women have come forward to accuse the British-born author of multiple counts of sexual misconduct. Gamain has denied all allegations and stepped back from the production of Good Omens, while Tennant has said absolutely nothing. Zip. You'd have to walk five hundred miles and then five hundred more just to be the man who said no comment at his front door. And this is unusual for him. Just ask Kemi.

During her time in government, the now Conservative leader advocated for banning trans women from entering women's toilets, changing rooms and sports teams to protect female rights and safety. This seems an entirely reasonable position to take, but it did not sit well with Tennant, whose support for trans and non-binary children is well known. He has taken to wearing slogan T-shirts such as 'Leave Trans Kids Alone, You Absolute Freaks', and while his support for these children is admirable, surely it should not come at the expense of other children?.

He piously claimed he was on the side of 'human decency' and believed that 'everyone has the right to be who they want to be' before arguing against Badenoch's right to even exist. 'Until we wake up and Kemi Badenoch doesn't exist any more – I don't wish ill of her, I just wish her to shut up,' he said.

This is a perfect example of the ideological intransigence of the pro-trans community, melded with the classic opportunism of the big star who simply cannot resist imposing their, his or her politicised values on an audience at every opportunity. Why? It is as if they are terrified that we won't notice victimhood or prejudice unless they bring it to our attention. It has got to the stage today where every drama is an opportunity to be exploited; a lecture to be delivered to the great ignorati (us), who cannot be trusted to work things out for ourselves.

Accepting his Outstanding Debut Bafta award on Sunday, Kneecap director Rich Peppiatt said that his was 'more than a film, it's a movement. Everyone should have their language respected, their culture respected. This award is dedicated to everyone out there fighting that fight.'.

Conclave director Edward Berger was even more serious about the state of the world. 'We live in a crisis of democracy,' he said, accepting the award for Best Film. 'Institutions that are usually used to bring us together are used to pull us apart. And sometimes it's hard to keep the faith in that situation, but that's why we make movies.'.

Do we really? Even the talented young star Mikey Madison, who won the Best Actress Bafta for her role as a prostitute in Anora, was not immune. She dedicated her award to sex workers everywhere, saying: 'I see you. You deserve respect and human decency. I will always be a friend and ally.'.

Mikey, that is quite a big promise to make and keep. Perhaps you even mean it. Yet while actors indulge themselves by inflicting their pet or current obsessions on their long-suffering fanbase, much more invidious wokery and damage is being done behind the scenes. Just look at Doctor Who, in which Tennant himself starred as the Tenth Doctor for four years.