“Peak Woke”

The Church of England is to investigate possible slave trade links to an 18th-century endowment that has grown into a £9.2bn investment fund supporting parishes and cathedrals across the country.

Queen Anne’s Bounty, a sum of money set aside to augment the incomes of poor clergy in 1704, could present a “reputational risk”, said the annual report of the Church Commissioners, the body that manages C of E assets.

Building a Marxist flavor of racism makes elites Marxist — and everyone else racist.

“If You’re Not Outraged, You’re Not Paying Attention” the bumper stickers on a thousand S
‘UVs in the upscale bedroom communities of dysfunctional cities read. “Deutschland Erwache,” the National Socialists used to shout in the streets of Munich. Woke compresses it all to one word.

Wokeness means believing that politics is all there is to life. And nothing is whiter than that.

James Corden has somehow become embroiled in a food-related race row.

That James Corden – actor, presenter, one of Britain’s worst cultural exports – is still a thing in America may be a bit perplexing for us in the UK. But one thing he clocked early, it seems, is that to get ahead in Hollywood you have to mouth all of the right platitudes.

… But there’s one element in the woke mind-set which has been under-explored, probably because it conjures an image of mundanity rather than mendacity. That element is boredom. The breed of middle-class, middle-aged Englishwoman (and it’s often a woman) who faithfully turn up at pro-‘Palestine’ rallies is searching – desperately, in many cases – for meaning in her life.

Evil does not matter to a movement that only cares about itself

It’s Pride month — and so it’s time to make rainbows. Any medium will do: parades, flags, biscuits, sandwiches and, of course, corporate branding. Look at the social media accounts of some of the world’s biggest companies and you’ll see that their graphic designers have been busy adding vibrant colours to normally sober logos.