Carol Thatcher, the daughter of the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is facing a possible ban from the BBC after referring to a tennis player as “a golliwog”. The incident occurred on Thursday night after The One Show when Thatcher, a roving reporter on the programme, was in the green room with its presenter, Adrian Chiles, and other members of the production team.
Using this kind of language to describe fellow human beings is completely dumb. But this was an off-air, unrecorded statement. That's where it should stay, and to ban Thatcher or make a big deal out of this is just platitudinous political correctness.
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