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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Beneath the culture wars, we are not nearly so binary
It is possible to both view climate change as an existential crisis and support JK Rowling’s view on trans rights.
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The woke brigade isn’t cancelling Christmas
Complaints about Christmas inclusivity are designed to stoke grievance and division.
ByA brief history of “woke”: how one word fuelled the culture wars – Audio Long Reads
From Suella Braverman to Elon Musk, war has been declared on liberalism. How did one word come to mean so…
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“Woke policing” isn’t to blame for rising crime
There are quite a few police officers who could do with being a little more “woke”.
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The “woke” may be dogmatic, but social progress owes a lot to religious fervour
Historically – from the abolition of slavery to gender equality – religious-based activism has been effective in enacting change.
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The absurdities of Suella Braverman’s “war on woke”
The Attorney-General claims we live in a country in which diversity, equality and inclusion is the new orthodoxy – if…
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The irony of the Commonwealth Games going woke
Athletes are taking on the contest’s colonial history.
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But what about the right-wing snowflakes?
Those who revel in pointing out the left’s sensitivity and intolerance are easily triggered themselves.
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Cries of a “woke Wimbledon” show that it can’t avoid the culture wars forever
The All England Club has historically lacked an overt world-view – but this constitutes a world-view in itself.
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UK voters “absolutely sick to death” of the culture wars, says Labour’s Louise Haigh
The Wakefield by-election result showed that the Tories’ “attempts to divide” aren’t working, the shadow transport secretary said at the…
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The Bill of Rights will create more work for woke activist lawyers
Talk of adding special British-flavoured rights has, rather embarrassingly, come to nothing.
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Disney proves woke capitalism isn’t as easy as it used to be
You know things are bad when even Disney isn’t a refuge from the culture wars.
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Why the government’s “war on woke” is failing
The right’s crusade against progressive culture looks ever less appropriate as Vladimir Putin derides Western freedoms.
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Historians have become soft targets in the culture wars. We should fight back
The “rewriting of history” is not some act of professional misconduct but literally the job of professional historians.
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