Americans realise freedom with the occasional bit of offence is OK – we seem to be going other way

“BACK in your day” has just entered the growing list of banned phrases.

According to an employment tribunal earlier this week, the expression is “barbed and unwelcome”, and harmful because it is “related to age”.

That’s a shame because I have always liked the phrase.

And besides, like so much of the speech-policing that goes on in this country, nothing real comes from it.