Miranda Sawyer Comedian Frankie Boyle who was censured after making jokes about disability. Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Observer In 2011, political correctness finally went mad. Really mad. It got angry with Ricky Gervais for using the word “mong”; it shouted at Jeremy Clarkson for saying that strikers should be shot; it had Andy...
Hadley Freeman Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker). Photograph: Henry Lamb/BEI / Rex Features Ladies! How are your marriage prospects looking? Good? Bad? In need of an ironing? Perhaps if you alphabetise them they will look more enticing. Attractive. Bed, in possession of incredible skills in. Cute. Doesn’t earn more than...
