I enjoyed Harry Wallop's piece in today's Telegraph about the virtual lynch mob that stands ready to pounce any time someone strays too far from the bounds of political correctness. It was prompted by the fate suffered by Andrea Charman, the primary school head teacher who fell victim to an Internet campaign to remove her from her post after she sent the school sheep to the slaughterhouse.
I got flamed on Twitter last Friday when I had the temerity to suggest that Alexander McQueen, the recently deceased British fashion designer, might not be a "genius". Several hundred people rained expletives down on my head, many of them saying they wanted to beat me up, so great was their love for "Lee" McQueen. Indeed, some of the comments beneath my original blog post on the Telegraph's website were none too kind. (To read more, click here.)
