Product Description

Discusses political correctness and the freedom of debate.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20790 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 121 pages

Melanie Phillips' Blog, January 2006
Anthony Browne, the Europe correspondent for the Times, has written a tremendously important pamphlet about political correctness

Peter Whittle, Sunday Times, 22nd January 2006
Anthony Browne’s recent excellent pamphlet on political correctness, The Retreat of Reason.

Rod Liddle, Spectator, 21/01/06
Browne’s pamphlet is a polemic against the manner in which intelligent, honest debate is suffocated by political correctness.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
This book is a very informative text for anyone who wishes to understand more clearly the effects of the Political Correct culture that has swept across our land over recent years.

Browne discusses in detail the objectives of the Political Correct elite and how this plague has driven an infection into the very heart of a once free speaking nation. Using strong examples and a thorough understanding of current events and social behavior this book gives the reader an interesting insight into debate and the suppression of debate that we are currently faced with.

The effects of PC culture that is so strongly enforced by our media and government are clear when we see how individuals have to behave day to day to ensure they are not offending some group or other. Browne brings home his point when introducing hypocrisy in PC culture, misleading statistical evidence to support PC objectives and the new victim culture that is so evident in today's society.

This is an excellent read and one which should certainly put a few noses out of joint. More of the same please!!

Spot on
As someone said, there's not much that feels especially new in it - and yet I've never read a book that addresses this topic quite so directly before. Some parts of it seem so blindingly obviously right that you almost wonder that it needs to be said. But of course it very much does need to be said. Browne occasionally refers to Political Correctness as an infection, and it certainly seems like that to me - and as he shows very clearly, a very serious and harmful one that has created a new kind of tyranny. I don't suppose that those who are electively blind will be cured by reading this book; but if you're not, you should read it.

Modern Masterpiece
Quite simply, a modern classic, that will surely become required reading for academics, MP's and anyone with an interest on socialisation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. A must have!!!