Showing posts with label Baroness James of Holland Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baroness James of Holland Park. Show all posts

Friday, May 02, 2008

PD James on Political Correctness: "A Pernicious If Risible Authoritarian Attempt at Linguistic and Social Control"

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Photo of PD James courtesy of The Telegraph

THE TELEGRAPH: Modern life is bedevilled by political correctness, PD James, the crime author, said last night.

There was a growing risk that Britons would live in "ghettos" and experience little contact with other people, she said in a speech on policing in the 21st century.

Baroness James of Holland Park, who is best known for creating the detective Adam Dalgliesh, told an audience in the Palace of Westminster: "Our society is now more fractured than I, in my long life, have ever known it.

"Increasingly there is a risk that we live in ghettos with our own kind, with a strong commitment to our local community but little contact with those outside it. PD James: Political correctness ruining society >>> | May 2, 2008

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