Why the obsession with ‘calling it out’? | Brief letters

Calling it out | The pill in the 1960s | From coffin to bookcase | Unseasonable birdsong | Aurochsen | Yorkshire pudThe House of Commons is celebrating the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 as I write, and discussing the abuse of politicians, naturally. Almost unanimously they describe discussion of this activity as “calling it out”. How did this phrase suddenly achieve the status of exclusive political correctness? Three or four years ago it was never used in th