Category Archives: political_correctness

Great White Hopes – Professor David Gillborn on race on Radio 4

The BBC recently ran a couple of programmes on Radio 4 called Great White Hopes Henry Bonsu investigates current debates about class and poverty in education policy, in the light of calls by Trevor Phillips, head of the Commission for … Continue reading

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Undercover Mosque and some more Pat Condell

Last night, Channel 4 bravely defied the West Midlands Police and showed a followup to Undercover Mosque, cunningly titled Undercover Mosque: The Return (forum) Undercover Mosque – The Original Undercover Mosque – The Return: A good article by The Guardian’s … Continue reading

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Fatty fat fat – Govt bans word obese

From The Times Parents of primary school children will start getting letters in September telling them how fat their children are. But however much they weigh, no child will ever be described as obese. The Department of Health has found … Continue reading

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Council bans brainstorming

From The Telegraph (and many others) Meaningless jargon and trendy buzzwords should be banned from town halls, it was claimed, after one council introduced the term “thought showers” to replace “brainstorming”. Tunbridge Wells Borough Council in Kent ordered the change … Continue reading

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The word “chav” is now politically incorrect.

You are really, really not going to believe this – here are a few brown pearls of wisdom from Tom Hampson of the Fabian Society (the people that brought you political correctness). UPDATE: Jon Holmes covered this on The Now … Continue reading

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Willy Wonka / Charlie and the chocolate factory is … racist?!

I was watching the 2005 Johnny Depp remake of Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Conversation with girlfriend went along the lines of “I bet in some dark corner of teh interwebs, some sad lonely fucker has blogged about  Augustus Gloop’s … Continue reading

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Worker suspended over Jesus image

According to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7037803.stm A Catholic worker at Manchester Airport was suspended after hanging an image of Jesus on a staff room wall. Gareth Langmead, 40, was sent home from his job as a car parks supervisor after a complaint from … Continue reading

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CRE race claim against Carl Lewis for objecting to local pikey camp.

From the BBC A man says he is “gobsmacked” he faces action under race relations laws for starting a petition opposing a travellers’ site in Swansea. Carl Lewis collected 953 signatures for the petition while standing as a candidate in … Continue reading

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