# The Times criticises political correctness of charity review

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/09/26/times-criticises-political-correctness-charity-review/
- Published: 2002-09-26T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Times in its leader column today is not impressed with the new “modish classifications”
for charity registration proposed in the Strategy Unit’s review of charity legislation.

While The Times welcomes the modernisation of charity, it is not convinced that 
the ten new classifications for charity eligibility are the solution. “The scheme
risks replacing a tried and tested set of conundrums with new and time-consuming
enigmas,” it argues. The newspaper believes that the successors to the original 
four classifications are “are vague, subjective-sounding classifications (which 
communities? whose rights?).” Only lawyers will benefit, it believes: “where red
tape is supposedly diminished, it will be replaced by pink ribbon.”

Read “Charitable act” at The Times.

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