“Peak Woke”

It’s not a surprise that recruitment is down. But it is a massive problem.

Asoon-to-be-Republican-led Congress has promised to investigate the calamitous departure from Afghanistan. This is how it should be and is consistent with our country’s tradition of oversight and investigation.

But an even more important priority is investigating the armed forces’ unprecedented recruitment crisis. The falloff is a result of an ideologically driven agenda whose goal it is to transform our military into a woke institution that resembles our failed college campuses instead of into military bases that train men and women to fight and win wars.

The Globe Theatre will stage the 430-year-old revenge tragedy and tweak the script so its prejudices are made clear to modern audiences

Shakespeare’s work will be altered to make characters in Titus Andronicus appear more racist to modern audiences.

The Globe Theatre is set to stage the revenge tragedy, notorious as the Bard’s most bloody play, and creatives working on the production plan to tweak its 430-year-old script.

Shakespeare’s language will be swapped for the modern vocabulary of race to make dialogue in Titus Andronicus more racially charged and its characters more obviously prejudiced for contemporary viewers.

Personally I think all of Shakespeare’s plays should be reworked to include Racialized Dwarves and Gay Elves.

Protester is banned from woke school board meeting after dressing up as controversial trans teacher with Z-cup prosthetic breasts to demand they are all fired – before being escorted out by police

An activist who dressed up as controversial Canadian trans teacher Kayla Lemieux at a school board meeting in October to protest her presence in the classroom has been banned from the district’s properties for life.

David Menzies, a host for the conservative network Rebel Media, attended a meeting of the Halton School District School Board, where Lemieux teaches at Oakville Trafalgar High School, as the character ‘Mammary Menzies’ equipped with extremely large prosthetic breasts.

A superintendent has been fired by a school board after a grand jury issued a damning report into the district’s handling of two sex attacks by a male pupil wearing a kilt.

The 15-year-old boy raped his female classmate in a transgender-friendly bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Virginia in May last year.

The boy, who was wearing a kilt during the incident, was convicted of sexually assaulting another girl at a different school in October last year.

This week I had the pleasure of going to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. I say ‘the pleasure’ but visiting the Pitt Rivers was never precisely a pleasure. Twenty years ago, as an undergraduate, the collection was something of a rite of initiation. The place, filled with strange and wondrous objects, was famed above all for its gruesome pickled heads: artefacts reminiscent of the ‘coconut’ that the one-eyed Brigadier Ritchie-Hook collects in Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour.

What did we think of them in those now distant days? That they were part of another age, naturally – a collection of artefacts from another time, representing another era, with its interests and curiosities.

This is the courtyard of the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston.

Kathy purchased a similar pic when we enjoyed a wonderful visit there.

It hangs in our home and I am glad of the memory it keeps warm in my heart.

Kathy took me places I would never think to go.

I love her for that.

From higher education to football, purity spirals are ripping through all areas of life.

Let’s discuss two of the most ostensibly baffling phenomena of our times.

One is the mania for ‘decolonising’ university courses throughout the land, a trend that is now even bizarrely impinging on mathematics and computer courses. The other is the England football team’s persistence in ‘taking the knee’, long after the summer of madness of 2020 when this gesture first took hold in Britain. England are so far the only World Cup side performing this ludicrous American import.