If there’s a single phrase that can wind me up these days, it’s the phrase ‘political correctness gone mad’. It’s being trotted out ad nausiem by those on the right – often people fed up with, for example, ramps being put up to shops, or signs being translated into urdu, just because it inconveniences them. Well, they wouldn’t say that if they only spoke urdu, or used a wheelchair. Political correctness is just that: correct. It is the tendency to be liberal and accepting of others.

I can accept and respect other people’s points of view. After all, I would contend that, since there is no absolute truth, all viewpoints are valid (but should be weighed according to the evidence supporting them). Yet I have trouble with these conservative-types making such statements as if the majority of people agreed with them.

Then, when you try to debate the subject with you, they accuse you of being the dogmatic one. Liberalism is innately undogmatic, whereas I find conservatism is.

Thus, the propensity to dislike political correctness is linked to a reluctance to change, to accept new ideas etc, especially when it interferes with one’s own business. I’m sorry; I accept they have a right to think as they wish, but conservatism, with it’s barely hidden racism, audacity, hypocrisy and stubbornness, is pissing me off right now.