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How my disabled son has changed my mind about political correctness

Without the prevailing wind of political correctness my life would be very different. Eddie’s would be ­unrecognisable

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

Here’s another stock joke for your collection: Pembroke College, Cambridge, has cancelled a fancy dress party themed on Around the World in Eighty Days to ‘avoid the potential for offence’. One college has objected to the serving of sushi as ‘cultural appropriation’; another cancelled yoga lessons for the same reason.

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