I enjoyed reading Sunder’s piece at NextLeft, discussing the bogeyman that is political correctness, and particularly the new Campaign Against Political Correctness (incomprehensible website).
I completely agree with Sunder that political correctness in the UK is a false argument: something that exists – as I said in a Twitter row with someone the other day – merely to legitimise rudeness, racism and prejudice as “mainstream”.
So with that in mind, I’m going to take some time off for Winterval, and will be back on 4 January, refreshed by lashings of tofurkey and organic fairtrade Islamist grape juice.
Happy holidays, seasons greetings and best wishes for (shamefully Christo-centrically dated) 2010.