Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

The contagious madness of the new PC

Obsessive searching for hurt and offence will create it where once it never existed

issue 29 August 2015

It’s becoming pretty clear, as the year rolls on, that some of our brightest youngsters have gone round the bend. It’s as if they’ve caught a virus, a mental one, a set of thoughts and ideas that might loosely be called political correctness, but seem to me weirder and more damaging than that.

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