Boris Johnson has been urged to defend Britain from the “profound threat” and fight back against Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter protesters. A group of Tory MPs have urged the Prime Minister to fight back against the “woke warriors” in a new manifesto. The pamphlet, released by the Common Sense Group, called on Mr… Continue reading The Threat of Woke Part 1
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Sep 2021. The Woke in Education
More parents are waking up to the “woke” ideology that is seeping into their children’s classrooms and curriculum. Increasingly, they are speaking up and opting out. Last week, Andrew Gutmann, a father of a student at the elite, $54,000-a-year Brearley School in Manhattan, wrote a scathing open letter to the school community. He stated that… Continue reading Sep 2021. The Woke in Education
Sep 2021. Cancel Culture and a Catholic Priest
Cancel culture – which sees individuals and brands spurned due to comments, actions or stances that some perceive to be wrong – is nothing new. Fundamentally, cancel culture is about shame. Shame emerges in response to the feeling that we have transgressed against some agreed social rule and lost status within the group. Evolutionary psychologists… Continue reading Sep 2021. Cancel Culture and a Catholic Priest
Sep 2021. Transgender Rights
The High Court just dealt a blow to the rights of transgender children in the UK (Bell v. Tavistock, 2020). As a consequence, thousands of trans teenagers have been stripped of the autonomy to access a life-saving medical treatment. The NHS trust affected is seeking permission to appeal. I do not get it, they are talking about… Continue reading Sep 2021. Transgender Rights
Sep 2021. Cancel Culture
It’s been a good year for cancelling. There’s the pandemic, of course, which crushed all of our plans and some hopes and dreams along the way. But there were also more specific cancellations. From celebrities – Jimmy Fallon, J K Rowling and Ellen DeGeneres – to brands like SoulCycle and Oatly (as well as a… Continue reading Sep 2021. Cancel Culture
Aug 2021. Trans Law in Scotland
The Scottish Executive is proposing to make it easier to legally change gender, as as young an age as four! Supporters say the plans are vital to ensure transgender people are treated with dignity – but one woman who used hormones and surgery to become a man, only to regret the decision, has described the… Continue reading Aug 2021. Trans Law in Scotland
Aug 2021. Running Away from Ourselves
Neil Oliver talks about the UK Government, and through the guise of the Covid Pandemic they are more and more telling us what to do. He talks about the ‘Snoopers Charter’ in Scotland which was defeated, a Bill which would have meant a named person appointed by the Scottish Executive, would be able to talk… Continue reading Aug 2021. Running Away from Ourselves
Aug 2021. If you don’t Like it don’t Read it
Charles Gaspirino in the New York Post writes, “Hysteria, groupthink and a fair amount of hypocrisy are the key ingredients in a ruinous cocktail that has managed to intoxicate some formerly profit-focused boardrooms.” JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon observed that the overt wokeism of his peers he is seeing similar signs of groupthink… Continue reading Aug 2021. If you don’t Like it don’t Read it
The UK Gendeless Passport
The UK Supreme Court this week heard that people should be able to declare their gender as ‘X’ on their UK passports and that current practice in the UK, whereby individuals can only declare as male or female, is discriminatory and should be changed by the Home Office. The case was brought by Christie Elan-Cane,… Continue reading The UK Gendeless Passport
Woke Trigger Warnings
Back in 2013, campus activists started demanding the policing of speech. They pushed to ban “microaggressions” (words or phrases that may offend certain minorities often unintentionally) and demanded “trigger warnings” before professors assigned certain controversial reading materials. Recently, the Prevention, Advocacy & Resource Center (PARC) at Brandeis University released a new list of verboten words and… Continue reading Woke Trigger Warnings