The dawn of the anti-woke era
Having roundly rejected the Democrats’ progressivist dogma, the American electorate is undergoing a social and demographic revolution.
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Musa al-Gharbi’s dire diagnosis for the woke elite
The sociologist on Ivy League hypocrisy, the four “great awokenings”, and what Kamala Harris got wrong.
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Jaguar’s “woke” rebrand is a commercial masterstroke
They have abandoned “golf club” loyalists for an international consumer base – no matter how it looks to Nigel Farage.
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The West’s useful idiots
The solipsism and self-censorship of the campus intelligentsia has spread throughout society. But demand for instruction in progressive doublespeak is…
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How the National Trust won the war on woke
The charity has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred its critics, who are all too easy to caricature as furious cranks and bigots.
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Why Keir Starmer won’t bash “woke” charities
After years of Tory cuts, Labour needs to repair the relationship between government and civil society.
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The tedious world of anti-woke comedy
From Jimmy Carr to Ricky Gervais, “edgy” comics are making jokes about 9/11 and Michael Jackson in an attempt to…
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The real cause of generational warfare
The internet has collapsed the space between young and old and exposed previously hidden divides.
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A brief history of “woke drinks”
In declaring a negroni the signature drink of the woke, GB News has forgotten about craft beers and natural wine.
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And Just Like That… is a woke horror show
The Sex and the City sequel is a combination of glib identity politics and extreme shopping – and it’s impossible…
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Is “National Conservatism” a dead end for the Tories, or a sign of what is to come?
Rishi Sunak may be tempted by an ideology of muscular nationalism – but he would risk alienating British voters.
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How Judy Blume became a lightning rod in the culture wars
The frank explorations of puberty and sexuality that made her books radical in the 1970s are newly controversial in the…
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The absurdity of Liz Truss blaming high taxes on woke culture
By making wokery the bogeyman for an economic disaster she’s implicated in, Truss has given the game away.
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The right have a secret: they are the true snowflakes
Culture warriors can’t help but display the behaviour they seek to criticise. Listen to them, then throw their words back…
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The furore over Oxfam’s “woke” language guide misses the point
The media attack on the charity’s “inclusive” wording forces us to choose between blustering bigotry and preening sanctimony.
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Britain’s original culture wars
A new history of the 17th century reminds us how bitter ideological conflicts have shaped our democracy.
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Konstantin Kisin: “Being anti-woke isn’t making you happy”
The podcaster is the viral man of the moment. But does he really have anything to say?
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Katharine Birbalsingh doesn’t understand private schools
Elite education is not “woke” at all.
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Bret Easton Ellis: “Wokeness is running out of room”
The Shards is the famously morbid author’s latest “trickster book”. He prefers cabinet shopping to culture wars now.
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The year woke broke: a brief history of a contested word
From Suella Braverman to Elon Musk, war has been declared on liberalism. How did one word come to mean so…
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