For the last four years (and earlier) many of us have been looking anxiously across the Atlantic at the rapid spread of radical progressive ideologies within US elites, wondering how long it would take for the worst excesses of wokery to be washed up over here. Black Lives Matter riots and outbursts of US trans mania were quickly followed by statues in England being pulled down or vandalised, NHS staff urged to refer to ‘chest feeding’ rather than ‘breast feeding’ and top private school headteachers falling lemming-like over each other to announce their commitment to ‘decolonising‘ their curriculum. The UK’s only consolation was that we seemed to be spared some of its most extreme manifestations. We have not yet had, as far as I know, spoilt brats at top UK universities screaming hysterically at tutors over Halloween costumes deemed to be triggering, as at Yale, or schools holding regular ‘Days of Absence’ on which white students are asked not to attend in order to give more space to POC (People of Colour).
For years therefore those concerned about these matters – including most Daily Sceptic readers, I assume – felt that we were regrettably moving in the same direction as our American cousins, just a bit more slowly. Over the last week all this has suddenly changed. We are still moving forward in the same direction, and even faster now under a radical progressive Labour Government, while the USA has done an about turn, Trump having thrown DEI, gender ideology and Net Zero 2050 into the dustbin of history, and begun marching backwards to where more happily all of us once used to be.
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