Trends in society always come and go, but one that shows no signs of abating is the propensity among many to take offence at words or symbols. Just because that derisive word of the last decade, ‘snowflake’, has fallen out of fashion, it doesn’t mean that these hypersensitive souls have disappeared.

Being compassionate in a patronising fashion from afar is mandatory behaviour for white liberals and our aloof, elite classes

Emily Spurrell, chairwoman of the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, is a case in point. Spurrell hit out at the surge in St George’s and Union Jack flags being hung on lamp posts, motorway bridges and street signs across England. In a speech to a police conference, she said: ‘Flags are an expression of our identity and proudly fly outside our police buildi

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