Thanks to ace if teeth-gnashingly London-centric e-mail newsletter The Friday Thing for their regular round-up of examples of the media's most over-used phrase:
'New laws on child car seats could save the lives of thousands
of youngsters, Cambridgeshire's chief constable believes...
Ricardo Rizzo, 39, of Milton Road, Cambridge, said: "It is
political correctness gone mad."'
- The Cambridge Evening News
'Racism complaints have forced Transperth to withdraw
taxpayer-funded ads showing a gorilla wearing a fez... The WA
Ethnic Communities Council said an apology would have been
more appropriate. And passers-by said removing the ads was
"political correctness gone mad".'
- The Sunday Times, Australia
'Royal Navy veterans have accused police of "acting like
Hitler" after they threatened to ban a march which has been
held in Scarborough for 13 years... 8th Destroyer Association
Chairman Peter Lee-Hale, 73, said: "We're only marching less
than a mile. We went to war to fight fascism, but it is our
police who are acting like Hitler... The whole thing is
ridiculous. It is political correctness gone mad."'
- The Yorkshire Post