LAST night's Channel 4 TV documentary, Invasion of The Parakeets, did not best impress Anita Singh, the arts and entertainments editor of The Daily Telegraph.
What galled the critic was the apparent suggestion by presenter Chris Packham that those who expressed dislike for the birds might be racist.
In today's edition of the paper, Ms Singh describes the programme as "a barmy documentary which draws a parallel between green parrots and asylum-seekers".
She continues: "Thankfully, the xenophobia argument took up only a small proportion of the documentary.
"Mainly, Packham wanted to provide us with evidence that the species isn't doing great harm either to native bird populations or to crops."
She adds: "Racism claims aside the programme was quite jolly and even-handed."
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