If a musician or band used the N-word in one of their album titles, I thin there would rightly be an outcry. Such language is no longer acceptable, at least when it’s not used ironically. The same should apply for the word spazz: now and again I use it to refer to myself, but if someone called me a spazz, or I heard someone use it derivatively in the media, I’d be insulted. Stay up late reports on an american punk band called Descendents calling their new album Spazz Hazard. They report that the group seems to relish being politically incorrect, and have launched a campaign to get them to rename the album. Such language is becoming increasingly acceptable, it says, with people starting to relish the controversy. I fear they are right: In these extreme, perverse times, minorities of any kind will find theirselves increasingly outcast. With politicians like Trump and Farage starting to take centre stage, extremist views will become more and more tolerated; the idea of political correctness will become increasingly derided, and it will become ‘cool’ or bold to use words like these. Thus I fear this band’s choice of title is a sign of things to come.