Political correctness book 'fatally flawed'

I've only just come across Julian Petley's review of the Anthony Browne tract entitled The Retreat of Reason: Political correctness and the corruption of public debate in modern Britain (which was in the last issue of Index on Censorship). It deserves a wide journalistic readership because Petley, a media professor at Brunel University, totally dismantles Browne's arguments against political correctness, illustrating that its central thesis is fatally flawed. Browne, Europe correspondent forThe Times, does have one fan though. According to Melanie Phillips, he has written "one of the most important pamphlets of recent times". Need I say more? (Via Eurozine.com)