I think I first remember hearing the phrase ‘its political correctness gone mad’ in a spitting image sketch in the 1980s. I can’t remember what the sketch was about – but the Daily Mail was mentioned.
As an employment lawyer who spends a lot of time training managers on discrimination issues, I know that ‘PCGM’ features strongly in many of their initial concerns about getting to grips with discrimination law and I hope that the training I give helps to dispel some of the myths that have grown up around what, I insist, is a very common sense area of the law.
