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High life

Warning: these books could seriously damage your health

If the trigger warnings are to be believed those of a sensitive disposition should avoid The Great Gatsby

3 January 2015

9:00 AM

3 January 2015

9:00 AM

Welcome to 2015, the year that speaking and writing freely had to stop. Anything that might cause trauma to anyone of any race except the white one will be expunged, and the perpetrators of politically incorrect speech or written word will be airbrushed for ever. The word trauma derives from the Greek and means wound.

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