Dire Straits track Money for Nothing has been banned from public broadcast in Canada – after receiving just one complaint 25 years after its release.

The decision came after a listener complained that the broadcast of an unedited version of the song was “extremely offensive” to gay, lesbian and bisexual people.

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) concluded that ‘faggot,’ when used to describe a homosexual man, is a word ‘that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in earlier days, is no longer so.’

The hit single came out on the band’s fifth album, Brothers in Arms, in May 1985 and won a Grammy for best rock performance the following year. The song was supposed to be about a couple of working class guys watching MTV and complaining about pampered rock stars.

As a Canadian, I think this is a classic example of political correctness gone too far. The CBSC is a bunch of “faggots”!