No, Guest Who Is Too Much Of A Coward To Sign Their Name, no one is saying that. If you'll take the trouble to actually READ what they're saying you'd realise that.

What bugs me is the way this trivial event has been trumpeted from here to Sunday and seven times round the mountain (which is actually a molehill). I don't mean Guest Alan, I mean the media. Does anyone really believe that Harry is the only one who talks that way? Is a common abbreviation and informal slang really that big a deal when it's not meant as a dedicated insult? Ever hear the way guys talk to each other in the pub or the locker room? (OK, so I've never actually been in a men's locker room when it's in use, but the school yard was enough.) Maybe we should just confine ourselves to Newspeak.

This sort of PC tut-tutting dilutes public awareness of all the genuine and harmful racism that goes on, covering it behind a smokescreen that tries to deter you from saying anything, until you get sick of monitoring every syllable for possible Offense. First speech, then thought.

You get Correctness Fatigue after awhile, which is a potent – but dangerous – equaliser.