Category Archives: Political Correctness

When PC Myth Becomes Government Talking Point

Posted on 3 August 2010 by Robert

Baroness Warsi repeats the ‘Winterval’ lie. Continue reading →

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The Bookseller of Kabul

Posted on 30 July 2010 by Robert

Dragging this sort of roman a clef into the court-room is a terrible precedent for free expression. Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Human Rights, Middle East, Political Correctness | 2 Comments

More on the Political Correctness Debate

Posted on 13 March 2010 by Robert

Joys! A video of my Political Correctness debate is now online. Continue reading →

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After The Debate

Posted on 16 November 2009 by Robert

I promised I would put up a few afterthoughts on the Political Correctness debate I particpated in last month. Its hardly a live story now, but I do think it is important to write follow-ups to such happenings. Continue reading →

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This House Believes Political Correctness is Sane and Necessary

Posted on 17 October 2009 by Robert

So, I was invited to take part in a debate at the Cambridge Union on Thursday night. We were debating the motion “This House Believes That Political Correctness is Sane and Necessary”, and naturally, I was proposing the motion. Continue reading →

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Social Cost of Slavery

Posted on 2 February 2009 by Robert

The unease of great-grandparents long-since buried, still festers in the soul, and it cannot be excised by education, science or modernity. Continue reading →

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Kowtowing to the Bigots

Posted on 24 June 2008 by Robert

So I fear that the complainers are merely homophobic bigots of the most humourless kind. Whether they are religiously motivated or not, we do not know. But it looks like an illiberal assault on freedom of expression to me – a tiny minority of people with minority beliefs imposing their will on the rest of us. What’s the moral difference between this, and the Mohammed cartoons fiasco? Continue reading →

Posted in Art and Cultures, Political Correctness | 21 Comments

Another PC Myth is born

Posted on 24 January 2008 by Robert

I am sadly confident that this story will join the canon of PC myths, alongside Winterval and the Royal Bank of Scotland Piggy Banks, which ‘prove’ that we are being overrun by barbarians. In fact, when British cultural practices and values come up against minority sensibilities, they usually win out. Continue reading →

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Who to blame?

Posted on 27 August 2007 by Robert

Online writing has many advantages. It is immediate, and allows space for dissenting opinion where other media fail. It also provides a space to write without compromise. I think most bloggers (and blog commenters) would describe themselves as ‘uncompromising’, but … Continue reading →

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The System Works (again)

Posted on 24 July 2007 by Robert

I’m way behind the news cycle on this, but it is noteworthy that some of those people who incited violence in reaction to those Mohammed cartoons have been imprisoned. The PigDogFucker points out a useful statistic: Now the judicial process … Continue reading →

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