Ghost of a flea

Political correctness starts in the wackier professions, in the college faculty lounge and the ethnic grievance shakedown racket, but eventually it hollows out ostensibly more robust institutions - including the police and even the military: See the US Army brass' general behaviour re Major Hasan. The British constabulary are particularly far gone in this respect. As John O'Sullivan likes to say, they're now the paramilitary wing of The Guardian.