Republished: the business article that someone wants you not to read

Note from the editor. The Spectator has been informed that, due to an EU Court ruling, the below article will now longer show up under Google search results. Here’s the rather creepy email:-

So someone, somewhere, doesn’t want this article to show up when you Google for a certain name, or company, or somesuch. We had received no complaint about the article, and have no idea why someone went to the lengths of applying for the original URL to be struck off. It is now The Spectator’s policy, on receiving such notifications, to republish automatically under a new URL (this one), so the article will never disappear from Google. We have left the original headline on, just in case.

Is political correctness good for business?

Herbert Smith, a firm of City solicitors, last month announced that it had hired its first ‘inclusivity manager’. There were chortles all round, and the Times ran a short piece about the appointment under the headline ‘Political correctness seems to have broken out at one of London’s top legal firms’.