political correctness

At the beginning of August, a small animation published by the BBC in 2014 caught the attention of an Infowars editor. (For those not in the know, Inforwars is an American radio show that is most famous for its enthusiastic and rage-fuelled host, Alex Jones). This led to a...

Chances are, you’ve heard the term snowflake creep into political commentary in recent months. Much like political correctness, it’s a term invented and used mainly by people on the right to disparagingly refer mainly to people on the left. Basically, a snowflake is someone who’s easily offended or overly...

I must start with a confession. Cardiff Metropolitan University has recently chosen to ban words they deemed politically incorrect. The list includes words ‘manpower’, and ‘sportsmanship’. On first reading, I found myself rarely, and rather worryingly, agreeing with the Daily Mail, who branded the decision as ridiculous. I couldn’t...

UKIP often attracts negative media coverage, and, equally often, this is for sound reasons. With the ex-Radio 1 DJ Mike Read eventually apologising over his calypso song, which was sung in a fake Caribbean accent and mocked ‘illegal immigrants in every town’, the issue of UKIPs bigotry does not...