It is little comfort to find out that political correctness isnโ€™t a phenomenon only in America. Here is an Orwellian episode from Leeds University about a professor who postulated racial differences in IQ (news coverage here and here). Note how the stories say nothing about the facts or the science, but a lot about โ€œvaluesโ€ and โ€œdiversity.โ€ The professor denies ever having engaged in discriminatory behavior, and officials say that โ€œThe university has no evidence yet that this has happened, but we will look carefully at any such evidence presented to us.โ€ Still, he has been suspended from his post.