My heart bleeds for you
HAVE you noticed how nice everyone has become? We were already suffering from a surfeit of political correctness—now, we can’t even be critical. Organisations, businesses and people that previously came in for a good deal of adverse comment are to be praised, forgiven or, at the very least, tolerated. Take, for example, Prime Minister’s Questions. In the past, the combatants could be relied upon for ingenious insults, irony of the heaviest kind and outright rudeness. Recently, it has become more like a church meeting.
‘What were you expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window?Basil Fawlty, when a difficult guest complained about the view
