Political correctness - Bullying of the very worst kind

WE SEEM to spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to get others to behave like ourselves or to share our beliefs in the things and ideas we hold dear.

Ideas we often hold to be better and more important than those cherished by others.

We no longer send many pale, tightly shorn young men to warm, far away places — or, as it was known in a more-direct time, Darkest Africa — to spread the values of Christianity and, sometimes, ground hurling.