It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.

That could apply to so many things which refer, allude or typify how the world has changed. Driverless cars, video phone calls, V-A-fucking-R. And, of course, political correctness. And yet it seems that being politically correct is just not enough. It is pathetically insufficient, if you’re in public life. You must not only always act in a PC way, but you are not even allowed to know anyone who doesn’t. Whose let something slip. Whose ‘crossed a line!!!’ even though most people wouldn’t realise there was actually a line there.

A caller on the radio was talking about possible leaders for the Labour Party and Jess Phillips name came up. Most callers were receptive to her. I like her. Labour moderates love her, Labour Corbynites can tolerate her. And that’s just about everyone that matters. Except some geezer from Slough (forgotten really, could have just as easily been Ruislip, Croydon, Basildon or Welwyn Garden City) who condemned the MP as ‘transphobic!!!’ Like that, with 3 exclamation marks. Her crime was not of laughing at a 6 foot four geezer with a long beard in a ball gown. It was not telling him to ‘man up!’ It wasn’t even the JK Rowling crime of accusing trans people of actually being born in a particular gender (SHAME ON THAT HEARTLESS BITCH!!) No. Jess Phillips’ crime was to ‘share a platform’ with a transphobic. I don’t know who the transphobic was, I didn’t ask. And I’m not saying that the transgender world and its detractors are not the single most important thing in the nation, because that would cross someone’s line somewhere, but are we not allowed to consider the future for the albeit small minority who aren’t about to undergo genital reconstruction? They get votes too, apparently. But heh, forget Brexit, ignore the economy, the NHS, education, future trade with non-EU countries, the plunging pound. It’s meaningless compared to a man with tits.

And then there’s Scholarship-gate. A benefactor decided to set up a scholarship specifically to help out ‘poor white kids’. And the schools approached refused the money on the grounds that ‘it goes against the inclusivity standards’. These are schools which charge 10 grand a term. And they’re worried about being in some way ‘discriminatory’. Because it sounds a bit off. WHITE KIDS ONLY!!!! Sounds a bit Apartheid, 1973. Or Mississippi, 2019. And yet the reality is that the single poorest educational performers in the country are poor white boys. So Mr Benefactor wanted to help that single group. In the same way that rapper Stormz set up a fund to sent black kids to Cambridge. Except that was completely acceptable to everybody. As it fitted with everyone’s PC preconceptions.

The whole political correctness movement has inflicted a curse which now is hurting the people who previously would be seen as the most needy. It’s all bollocks.

Happy New Year, may 2020 (how the f- did that happen???) be all you could wish for, and more.

A xxxx