Saturday’s Telegraph Review chose David Schneider’s Radio Four programme on Yiddish as its radio pick of the day for yesterday. Interviewees included former American Secretary of State Colin Powell who, the magazine informed us, “unexpectedly learned the rudiments of the language while working as a teenager in a Yid-owned toyshop in New York”.
Yid-owned? I know the Telegraph is not exactly a friend of political correctness but...