“Peak Woke”

BRITAIN is not ready to defend itself from attack, says the Commons Defence Committee. Their report details the lack of missile defence, a Royal Navy depleted of ships and available submarines, an Army shrunk to its smallest since the Napoleonic Wars with only slightly more than 70,000 fully trained soldiers, not enough even to protect some of the UK’s most sensitive military bases.

The question that needs answering is why? Why has the armed forces ability to defend our country crumbled? Why are more personnel leaving than joining, and why do those left behind over-represent the lowest-capacity personnel? 

Museums are Canada’s greatest stewards of public history. But in the past decade, increasingly overbearing cultural policies have rewritten their mandates. Once dedicated to simply telling the truth, they now have an agenda to push.

It’s subtle, but a lot of museums are open about it nevertheless. The federal Canadian Museum of History’s diversity, equity and inclusion plan states that it will “allocate resources strategically to bridge gaps” to “ensure better representation of equity-deserving groups.” Calgary’s Glenbow Museum announced its new land acknowledgement in September: “Blackfoot land, your territory.”

Have you noticed how nowadays, whenever you visit a museum, you get hit by a clunking giant ideological hammer? Once upon a time, we went to museums to feed our curiosity and sense of wonder. Today, the people in charge of them seem to believe their job is to make us feel as guilt-ridden and tormented as possible.

Disney has pulled out of its Doctor Who partnership with the BBC after just two series following what critics called the show’s “woke” rebrand.

The US streaming giant has confirmed it will not be involved in the next series of the sci-fi favourite following reports of lacklustre viewing figures.

The break-up means Doctor Who will not return to TV screens until Christmas 2026, with a special episode written by original showrunner Russell T Davies.

Canada’s practice of Indigenous land acknowledgements, viewed by many as a pivotal component of reconciliation, is not without its critics, including some Indigenous leaders and scholars who see them as a performative token gesture.

Andrew Schulz: "I think it's funny when governments try to enforce care… like anytime I'm performing in Canada if it's on an indigenous area they make me do like…"

Joe Rogan: "Land acknowledgement?"

Andrew: "I said that kinda seems like bragging."pic.twitter.com/CC5VFR57cc

— Joe Rogan Podcast News (@joeroganhq) October 22, 2025

The centerpiece of a new exhibit in Los Angeles is a mangled junkyard of a statue, with horse and human limbs glommed together like some kind of zombie Ichabod Crane. Now dismembered beyond recognition, the piece was once a statue of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

Is there a cure for the civilization-ending woke mind virus?

I was all set to write a column weighing in on the excellent Helen Andrews piece at Compact about the feminization of our institutions and the damage that’s done — though what I would say is that Alla Margolina did an excellent job expounding on that subject in a post we picked up at RVIVR.

And then something else came up, which really deserves a bit of treatment.

The Metropolitan Police has said it will no longer investigate non-crime hate incidents to end the practice of officers having to police “toxic culture war debates”.

Scotland Yard today announced that the comedian Graham Linehan would face no further action after he was arrested last month over three tweets.

OH, the BBC. The front cover of Radio Times for the week beginning yesterday draws our attention to a season of FEMALE-LED shows. Of course it does. The viewing public wants nothing more than another tranche of hard-boiled, resourceful, compassionate girl-bosses leaving their male colleagues trailing helplessly in their wake. After all, who could possibly object to a female boss?

Woke began the day, 20 years ago, when Larry Summers was forced out of Harvard for saying there are innate differences between men and women, argues Helen Andrews in Compact. His cancellation was feminine, because all cancellations are feminine – and the rise of wokery is synonymous with the Great Feminisation as women become majorities in Western workplaces. Here’s an excerpt.

In 2019, I read an article about Larry Summers and Harvard that changed the way I look at the world. The author, writing under the pseudonym “J. Stone”, argued that the day Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard University marked a turning point in our culture. The entire ‘woke’ era could be extrapolated from that moment, from the details of how Summers was cancelled and, most of all, who did the cancelling: women.

If any institution in the world provides evidence of Freud’s concept of the death instinct, it is the Church of England. With unfailing aim, it does whatever will hasten its demise, already quite advanced. Shortly after it appointed Sarah Mullally as Arch Social Worker (formerly Archbishop) of Canterbury, it proceeded to vandalize its mother church, Canterbury Cathedral, not by forbidding but by actually commissioning graffiti on its ancient columns, incensing almost everyone but a small coterie of evangelical Wokeists.