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Not that you needed another reason to loathe and despise the BBC – but check out what it has done to this interview with Jordan Peterson.

A British police officer called a charity to ask if it were acceptable for an Iraqi man to date a 12-year-old girl because he wanted to be “culturally sensitive” when dealing with a suspected paedophile.

Tim Allen says political correctness puts comedians in a perilous position, citing ABC’s recent firing of sitcom star Roseanne Barr. 

A report issued last week by a group studying the issue of Confederate monuments says Texas should rename its capital city — Austin, Texas.

The counter-terror watchdog chief who has previously said returning jihadist terrorists should not be arrested is to become the UK’s new Director of Public Prosecutions.

A Carrollton, Texas, business owner is reportedly receiving death threats after business cards surfaced that promote a legally operated lawn-care service. At least one person expressed concern about a “Your Alternative to Illegal Lawn Services” slogan.

Student activists at Manchester University have defaced a large-scale copy of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” in their Student Union building and replaced it with a poem by Maya Angelou. Kipling, they claim, is ‘racist’.

Almost four out of five UK nurseries ban children and infants from playing with toy weapons over fears it will encourage violence, a survey has found.

Truly it’s horrible and unnerving to fall victim to a point and shriek assault by an hysterical, vengeful, feminist Social Justice Warrior. It happened to me the other day at Cambridge University.

This week’s Delingpole includes James’s conversation with Chloe Westley, campaign manager at The TaxPayers’ Alliance (@lowtaxchloe on Twitter), about why tariffs are bad.

More than 95 per cent of government “deradicalisation” initiatives fail to work, with the people delivering them often too scared to mention religious extremism and choosing to talk about “Islamophobia”, a government report has found.

The Harvard Glee Club, the oldest collegiate choir in the nation, will open its membership to women, following new rules by the Harvard College administration that penalize students for joining same-sex organizations. The Glee Club has been all-male since its

The University of Michigan “is an egregious example of how public institutions are limiting the free expression and debate of ideas,” according to an article Saturday in USA Today.

Oxford University’s Geography and Environment faculty has removed from its walls a portrait of its most famous – indeed only famous –  recent alumna, British Prime Minister Theresa May.

On a crowded San Francisco elevator, someone was pushing floor buttons for everyone else. One man joked that he would like to stop at “ladies lingerie.” And now, after Simona Sharoni, a women’s and gender studies professor at Merrimack College, filed a complaint, he is being forced to apologize.

The lifeboat volunteers of Britain’s Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) are the bravest of the brave.

Pittsburgh authorities removed a famous statue honoring American songwriter Stephen Foster Thursday, in response to allegations that the work was racist.

The Dallas City Council was expected to vote Wednesday on a resolution that called for demolishing one Confederate monument and auctioning off another. Instead, they postponed making major decisions, voting 9-6 to review more options for a Confederate War Memorial. Then, they voted 10-5, without discussion, not to sell a statue of General Robert E. Lee but did not indicate what the city would do with it either.

Legendary Hollywood comedy director-actor Mel Brooks, in a wide-ranging interview, laments how he thinks political correctness is toxic to comedy.

With the flopping of ‘I Feel Pretty,’ Amy Schumer’s movie career is now in serious trouble with three flops in a row. Here are six reasons why her movie tanked.

RICHMOND, Virginia–President Donald Trump is the ice-breaker ship that broke through 30 years of thick permafrost, according to former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who called on 200 grassroots activists to be the flotilla that keeps the ice from reforming behind him.

Rotherham Council has been ordered to apologise to a whistleblower who helped reveal the mass exploitation of underage white girls by mostly Muslim men.

An Oxford college has apologised for causing “distress” to students after attempting to organise a cannabis-themed party, which was accused of “cultural appropriation”.

The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been slammed over guidance which claims that supposedly “offensive” terminology like “British values” could inspire terror attacks.

A Sydney barber has been sued by a woman after refusing to cut her daughter’s hair on the grounds that he was only trained to cut men’s hair.

Historic England, the public body tasked with preserving England’s heritage, is advertising paid training placements for itself, the National Trust, English Heritage and other bodies which are not open to white people.

The push to remove all Confederate iconography continues at one Texas high school where eligible students voted to replace its Old South logo with a politically correct “service dog” mascot.

Police Scotland has come under fire on social media after posting a message threatening to hunt down anonymous Twitter users in the wake of the ‘Nazi Pug’ controversy.

The University of California has published a list of unacceptable “microaggressions” on its official website, which includes offensive statements such as “America is the land of opportunity.”

School administrators in British Columbia are trying to fight racism by posting a series of white-shaming posters on school walls, in an effort to educate students on the evils of “white privilege.”

If you adjust for inflation, only two comedies have entered the list of the top 300 all-time box office successes. This sad fact is unprecedented in the 50-year history of modern movies.

The theory goes that if you put a frog in a pot of water and slowly turn up the flame, the frog will not notice it is being boiled to death. This is exactly what is happening to free speech in our country, and President Trump’s greatest service to America might be the example of his belligerent refusal to stay in the pot.

Stanford University has rejected a proposal for a new logo by the College Republicans, saying that the logo contains an image of the American flag, which violates university policy.

Australian airline Qantas has reportedly advised employees not to “manterrupt” women or use gender-specific pronouns.

Authorities at Acadia University in Nova Scotia have opened a formal investigation into psychology Professor Rick Mehta for articulating politically incorrect views on multiculturalism and gender issues.

One of the most woke moments at Sunday’s 90th Academy Awards saw Keala Settle sing the song ‘This is Me’ from the film The Greatest Showman, with the stage being filled with people representing nearly every walk of life.