“Peak Woke”

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) has removed a social media advertisement about consent featuring grandparents hugging their grandchildren.

The video depicted a young girl being uncomfortable receiving a hug from her grandparents.

Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan said the advertisement was “both inappropriate and demeaning” to grandparents and has been removed by the DRCC following engagement with his officials.

The latest ad from the Irish Government to the Irish people, who are the font of all problems in the country and desperately need to be stopped from their bad behaviour.

This time, it’s hugging your grandkids. https://t.co/IKYKteKP8m

— John McGuirk (@john_mcguirk) October 21, 2026

Years ago Kath worked for a well known charity where she was asked to review some proposed campaign copy.

The idiots tried to argue that use of the word “City” made people who lived in “Towns” feel less than.

Same place that freaked out when in workplace conversation she stated “Not all Muslims are terrorists but most terrorists are Muslim”.

We are now well into the swing of David Eby’s faux-pas snap election. The candidates have been confirmed, battle lines have been drawn, and scores of scurrying volunteers are zipping door to door, eager to convince British Columbians that either the time is now for change, or the time is now to maintain the brilliant status quo.

The BC HRC is run by lunatics.

We are supposed to have moved on from the worst excesses of what is now being referred to as “Woke 1.0”: that period of time around 2020 and 2021 when society, as a collective, appeared to have lost its mind.

This was when, around the time of the Black Lives Matter protests in the U.S. and beyond, a data scientist named David Shor was fired from his job for tweeting out research showing that violent protest can lead to political backlash for the Democrats. It was when a curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art faced public censure, and eventually resigned, because he told staff that ceasing to collect work from white artists would amount to “reverse discrimination.” It was when ESPN fired an analyst before she even started working over homophobic tweets she posted nearly a decade earlier.

In the jargon of the political Left, the term “intersectionality” means an examination of how race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, immigration status, and other characteristics intersect with systems of power, disadvantage, or privilege. In practice, the term applies to any situation in which multiple pet causes of the Left are showcased together.

It’s as good an indicator as you’ll find of this government’s asinine attitude to rural Britain that you’re reading a piece in which a Spectator writer semi-seriously considers the far-right credentials of various dog breeds. How right-wing is your dog? in itself sounds like one of Alan Partridge’s increasingly desperate pitches for a new TV show.

Pity the poor black Lab, for it’s these harmless thickos of the dog world that have aroused Labour’s ire. You’ll no doubt be aware that earlier this week, Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Nature, told a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference that the far-right at the next election would weaponise a nostalgic vision of Britain ‘that we don’t want to have [and] never really existed’.

There have been a bunch of stories about the rise in LGBTQ identification. What’s really driving those numbers?

Anecdotally I’ve noticed that the people who use non-standard pronouns in real life are almost always young women and that they tend towards a meaningless she/they variety. The Yale poll of 2030 students seems to back that up.

The iconic TV series 7 Up has been slapped with a trigger warning by ITV bosses because it ‘contains outdated attitudes’.

The original episode, from 1964, followed 14 seven-year-olds talking about money, class, school and the future.

The programme returns to them every seven years, and will end this year with 70 Up.

Assuming the ridiculous gushing over a Cambridge conman was not a national Monty Python sketch arranged for tourists, the Jason Arday affair reminded me of one of the most peculiar things about Britain: They’re more woke than the U.S. Which is weird, because the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects. The closest we have to that in America is the NAACP.

“Woke 1 was crazy,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughed on an ABC News show, dismissing questions about the radical views of DSA members while implying that they were some sort of past phenomenon we no longer had to address because the page had been turned on the era. “What’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.”

No one who lived through the past 10 years should allow Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to giggle away the hell called “woke” that she and Democrats inflicted on this country. It can’t possibly be that easy for them to move on from what they did just because they know it’s unpopular and it complicates things for their leaders wanting to run for president in 2028.

Hey, remember that unhinged cultural revolution we launched a few years back? That was insane — amirite?

That’s essentially what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told ABC News host Jonathan Karl recently, quoting a New York City Council member who describes socialist Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s past tweets about defunding the police and shuttering prisons.

A disgraced black professor accused of being a fabulist, and the shaming of formerly world-renowned Cambridge University proves the toxic, divisive and destructive power of the much-loved progressive practice of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Jason Arday, once the darling of academia, resigned as a professor of sociology of education at Cambridge on Wednesday after a week of being pummeled in the press in an ever-increasing escalation of exposés.