Right after Donald Trump’s landslide, I opined on YouTube that this turning point could sound the death knell for Woke World – an observation that decayed to hoary cliché within hours. I also supposed that Trump’s triumph might signal to the UK that all that diversity, equality and inclusion/systemic racism guff is totally yesterday – in the hopes that even if Brits don’t care about fairness, rationality and reason, they might at least be horrified by appearing passé.
For police to pursue citizens for ‘non-crimes’ is a little like bin men coming to your house to pick up ‘non-rubbish’
I regret not getting that cheerful forecast in print, because I rarely write optimistic columns, and the window for celebrating this crippling blow to poisonous progressive politics has already closed. Last week’s persecution of the beguiling Daily Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson by Essex Police is a reminder that we can’t defeat a lethal social brain cancer just by staying up late on a Tuesday night. Identitarians have engaged in their long march through the institutions, and for the long march in reverse we’ll have to lace up our boots. Obsession with race, ethnicity and ‘gender’ now permeates even law enforcement, and removing wokery’s pernicious influence from civic life will be as tedious as picking crab.
My friend and colleague, Allison has a loyal, passionate following. Few journalists have so consistently stuck their necks out for individual readers. During Covid, Allison was a lifeline for distraught Britons, who wrote in by the thousands to the lockdown-sceptical Planet Normal podcast she records with Liam Halligan. She’s read every email, sometimes intervening to provide practical help.
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