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Australian rocker Nick Cave mourned the lack of mercy in today’s society steered by cancel culture,  writing on his website that political correctness “has grown to become the unhappiest religion in the world.”

Left-wing bias has created a “chilling effect” in British academia which is forcing conservative and pro-Brexit academics to self-censor on campus, a report has found.

Police in the United Kingdom are considering dropping the terms “Islamist terrorism” and “jihadis” out of fearing to appear Islamophobic, in the latest politically correct push in British institutions. British police are reportedly looking to use the Doublespeak-Esque terms such

The UK’s Royal Navy has succumbed to politically correct woke culture, reportedly banning the terms “unmanned” and “manpower” over concerns that using the phrases is “sexist”.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage blasted Boris Johnson for failing to confront the Marxist Black Lives Matter UK movement, saying that the prime minister is “trapped” by a politically correct culture.

The Houston Association of Realtors announced the end of a long tradition of designating certain bedrooms and bathrooms as “master.” The change follows weeks of protests over racial equality and issues relating to the Confederacy.

A Cambridge University professor has boasted that she was promoted after tweeting “White Lives Don’t Matter” — after a man who flew a banner saying they do matter over a football match in the wake a suspected terrorist attack was fired.

Sixteen films including Aliens, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Flash Gordon, The Jungle Book, and Lawrence of Arabia have been given trigger warnings for their “outdated attitudes” by Comcast-owned Sky in the UK as a Black Lives Matter inspired Cultural Revolution sweeps the country

Comcast-owned Sky has added trigger warnings to Disney’s Aladdin — both the 1992 original and the 2019 remake — warning its “outdated attitudes” may “cause offence today”.

In both cases, the programmes were only recently created, being first broadcast between 17 and 10 years ago. 

College kids may “laugh at the idea microaggressions” after living “through something difficult” such as the coronavirus, said Dan Crenshaw.

Italy is now the coronavirus epicentre. Pity the poor fools who were seduced into giving out hugs to signal their virtue.

Swedish Migration Board Director-General Mikael Ribbenvik has slammed the Swedish government, stating that current asylum rules allow potential terrorists and war criminals to be given refugee protection.

A mandatory diversity program at UCLA told students to avoid using the words “lame” and “insane.” Students were told that certain words should not be said because they create “stigma” against “marginalized” people.

Home Office bureaucrats have been accused of burying a report on the ethnic background of grooming gang rapists announced in 2018.

Meet your new favourite actor Laurence Fox, currently trending on Twitter because of his shocking appearance on BBC’s Question Time last night.

A British university is paying students to spy on their classmates and report them for any language they deem to be a teeny bit offensive.

Just as the virulently anti-Thatcher Conservative Party became momentarily “Thatcherite” when Baroness Thatcher passed away, establishment Conservative Party figures have been out in force eulogising Sir Roger Scruton upon his passing this week. Where were they less than a year ago when he was being fired from their government for holding “unacceptable views”?

Only “furious moronic c**ts” liked Ricky Gervais’s Golden Globes set, declares the worst article ever written by a comic in the history of comedy or journalism.

The bureaucrat in charge of England’s Lake District National Park wants to spend £8 million tarmacking over parts of the world-renowned beauty spot in order to make it more relevant to disabled people and ethnic minorities.

Queen Elizabeth II’s former chaplain converted to Catholicism in response to the Church of England’s failure to stand up to “political correctness”, which he said has instead “swallowed it wholesale”.

Diversity Council Australia is urging employers to drop “Christmas parties” in favour of “holiday season drinks” so Muslims and other non-Christians “feel included at this time of year”.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says Christianity Today is applying a “PC worldview” to politics in its condemnation of Trump.

A comedy night banned Conservative-voting comedians in the name of “inclusiveness” in the wake of the British general election, telling them to find “free speech zones” elsewhere.

A local council in Dorset, England, shut down a charity group that handed out hot meals to the homeless because they didn’t have a licence, threatening the group with prosecution.

Terrorist attacks often reveal a country at both its worst and its best. Yesterday’s atrocity – in which Muslim terrorist Usman Khan murdered two passers-by before being shot dead by police – was no exception.

A Wisconsin elementary school canceled a first-grade Thanksgiving play due to concerns about the “accuracy of the first Thanksgiving story” and “sensitivity of this time in our history.”

Comedian and veteran TV star Tim Allen took aim at the rise of the “thought police,” and noted how “alarming” it is for comedians.

Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson said in a recent interview that he will no longer perform on college campuses because students are too sensitive about jokes. According to Davidson, “The second you open your mouth and have an opinion, you lose money today.”

Left-wing Welsh separatists Plaid Cymru have been embarrassed after the niqab-clad Muslim who starred in their election broadcast was linked to antisemitic posts on social media.

Britbox, which claims to bring the “best of British” television on-demand, has banned programmes like Till Death Do Us Part and It Ain’t Half Hot, Mum because they may be offensive to today’s audiences.

Leftists academics are pushing to erase the term “Anglo-Saxon” from the study of history, claiming it is “inextricably bound up with pseudohistorical accounts of white supremacy”.

A group of students at Williams College have staged a boycott of the school’s English Department, alleging that the curriculum is “whitewashed” and its scholars “racist.”

Of all various tragedies and disasters that have beset Britain in the last decade, none has garnered nearly so much media attention as the Grenfell Tower fire of June 14, 2017.

Today is International Pronouns Day. Just in case you weren’t aware of it, here’s a senior British police officer explaining its significance…

The British government’s Ministry of Justice has blocked a “culturally insensitive” move to ban cat meat and dog meat, fearing it could offend people in Asian countries.