News Round-Up
1 April 2025
by Toby Young
The coalition of financial super-powers assembled by Elon Musk to take control of Twitter is of huge significance as it may be the start of a wider fightback against dysfunctional, sanctimonious woke capitalism.
Watching the woke Twitter echo chamber melt down over the prospect of the world's richest libertarian taking charge of their safe space has been a sight to behold.
The Year Zero witch hunts continue, now sucking into their vortex of dangerous nonsense even the most celebrated abolitionists should they catch even the slightest taint of association with slavery.
A Disney executive has promised that at least half of the characters in its productions will be LGBT or from racial minorities by the end of the year. Will the company be the latest victim of go woke, go broke?
The engine of UK identity politics is Part 11 of the Equality Act, which contains the exceptions that turn a law against discrimination into a driver of 'positive' discrimination and wokery. The Government must axe it.
A leading London private school has been downgraded by Ofsted for placing more weight on teaching “social justice” than on learning “subject-specific knowledge and skills”.
The past two years have seen a 'New Normal' emerge as a set of views about discrimination, prejudice, culture and guilt under which white, heterosexual men began to be obliged to feel guilty for being themselves.
As brands and marketing departments put 'social justice' and over-representing minorities above actually selling products, it appears that 'go woke, go broke' strikes again.
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Normal life and liberty spreads disease, emits carbon dioxide and oppresses minorities, so the drive to bring it under greater Government control is relentless. This is a mistake, however.
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