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The Real World is now the Woke World

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We have entered an age where subjectivity trumps objective facts, where decibels
outweigh debate and where rhetoric (here de;ned as ‘language designed to have a
persuasive or impressive e=ect, but which is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or
meaningful content’) will always be superior to reason. This is the age of identity politics,
‘lived’ experience, ‘my truth’ and a deluge of other social justice inspired terms which,
simply translated, mean ‘me, me, me’.

A series of books has been published, starting with The Madness of Crowds and The War on
The West by Douglas Murray, then How Woke Won by Joanna Williams and most recently The Articles in the Autumn Edition of the
magazine out next week.  
New Puritans by Andrew Doyle. These chart the rise of the social justice movement and its
 
activists the social justice warriors, how they have permeated key institutions, perverted
Editorial.  Two worse candidates for Prime
the meaning of language and tried to undermine faith in all the values that hold societies
Minster could not be imagined.
together, lead to stability and sanity for the majority of the population and which are the  
true hallmarks of progress. Mark Mantel. “Putting Beauty back in her Seat.”
 
Nothing is sacred and almost any issue can be weaponised by the social justice warriors, Transgender Madness: Theodore Dalrymple
although they do have their favourite areas through which to claim oppression, wonders why gender dysphoria attracts so much
marginalisation and to spout vitriol at those they see as beyond the woke pale. Race, attention as it aFects only .005% of the
population.
gender and climate change are high on their agenda. Those of us who have done time in
 
universities, the National Health Service or any of the public services will have seen the
“On the National Death.”  Myles Harris explains
pervasive outcome of the social justice movement in terms of inclusive policies, recognition
how the left has seized control of the merciless
of gender and transgender equality and a proliferation of recycling bins. Hardly a problem bureaucratic machine that is the NHS.
as all decent people do not wish to discriminate on the basis of race, would be horri;ed at  
the thought of being rude to anyone regardless of gender or identity and we all want to cut Craig Milne: How for lack of nuclear power the
down on land;ll and smoke in the atmosphere. Greens may cause you to shiver, even to die this
winter.
However, we cannot be trusted simply to be nice people, to treat others with respect and  
Daryl McCann: On why people smuggling matters,
to dispose of our cans and bottles in the appropriate receptacle. Increasingly, these
how Australia managed to halt it, but maybe is
behaviours must be prescribed, enforced and policed. Thus, human resources
about to lose control of it again.
departments grow like mushrooms, often by orders of magnitude, and undergo
 
transformations into new entities called ‘departments of people’ with very sinisterly named Percy Carlyle: How the Conservatives have
‘directors of people’ at the helm. Where once their predecessors (personnel departments) scrapped marriage.
were there to assist the rest of an organisation to function, these new departments led by  
their supreme beings are increasingly becoming the centres of gravity around which all Being the 40th Anniversary Edition of the

else must revolve; the increasingly longer tails that wag the rest of the dog. Salisbury Review, we publish a selection of
articles from going back to 1992. Here are a
few.
Around the leadership of these departments of people grow, snowball-like, a regiment of
Roger Scruton. “The Conservative Conscience.”
regulators with titles such as ‘inclusion and diversity oPcers.’ The National Health Service
2007
has a severe shortage of nurses and doctors and the wherewithal to pay them even if they
 
manage to employ them. Yet there is neither let nor hindrance to the employment of these Enoch Powell on the EU. “A New Continental
inclusion and diversity oPcers who insist on the declaration of pronouns and implement a System.” 1992
bewildering array of days where all manner of inclusivity, usually related to some variant  
along the widening spectrum of sexuality, must be recognised and celebrated. If this whole Tristan Jones. “An encounter with Kim Philby.”

brigade of enforcers was sacked it would have no detrimental e=ect on the productivity or 2007
 
standing of any of these organisations.
Michael Wharton. “Colonel Sibthorpe.”2002
 
Meantime, in the real world where working people who do not get all ‘the memos’ simply
Merrie Cave. “Making mock of uniforms that
want to get on with their lives, let live in return and earn a decent living, life carries on as
guard you while you sleep.” 2016
normal. That is until they forget to use someone’s preferred pronoun (‘misgender’  
someone), show loyalty to King and country (support colonialism), say how much better Heather Ollerenshaw. “Rolling John.” 2018
this country must be or why would so many people want to come here (express ‘white  
privilege’) or continue to drive their fossil fuel powered car (kill the planet). Little do the Brian Ridley FRS. “Global Warming: Beyond Belief?

proletariat—for that is how the social justice elite view the rest of us—know that they are, 2018
 
panopticon like, being observed for words, actions and even demeanours which transgress
Myles Harris. “Britain’s Second Betrayal of Poland”
the New Commandments and make someone feel ‘unsafe’, inferior or oppressed. Then,
2017
they know all about it as torrents of abuse will be hurled at them via whatever electronic  
platforms they use, they may be suspended from work and lose their job or, if dependent  
on public appearances, be cancelled and have their income stream dammed up at source.  
 
Recent history is replete with examples of academics sacked, writers being prevented from
publication, comedians being cancelled and people making transgressive but private jokes
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expression through the removal of paintings, statues and artefacts and, in those that struck in years, he remembers
remain, the intrusive ‘trigger warnings’ that what is being viewed probably, however when hangings were
tenuously, related back to the slave trade. announced in received English
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If we cast our historical nets back to the 18th and 19th centuries pretty much everything the BBC Home Service, midwives rode bicycles,
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we ate, the cotton we used to make clothes, the hard woods we used to build ships and hospitals and children were separated by the 11
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buildings and the precious metals and minerals we traded were a direct result of the slave
trade. It was utterly odious that people enslaved others and used them for economic gain,
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under the British. That is not to excuse it but those who heap opprobrium upon us seem to
have blinkers on when it comes to other historic and even present day examples of
slavery. Ironically, there are no ‘brownie points’ (no pun intended) for having been at the
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forefront of abolishing slavery and, in that process, having been decades ahead of the retired prison doctor and
United States. However, in a world where even William Wilberforce can be accused of psychiatrist. A highly popular
simply exercising white privilege, nothing should surprise us. journalist, he writes for
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BRIAN ROCKFORD ON Where are you
really from? Lady Hussey was right to
ask

sheilagh 8TH OCTOBER 2022 AT 4:11 PM

BRIAN ROCKFORD ON Foot in Mouth

Disease at the Palace

Race baiters Olusoga and Andrews are almost certainly the descendants of slave owners and
traders.
DAVID ASHTON ON Foot in Mouth
REPLY Disease at the Palace

EM-KREM ON Queering the pitch in

Qatar. A fortnight of fun ahead.
PJR 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 AT 9:17 PM

DONG LI ON Wokery is Maoism.

In the Eighteenth Century, the principal diFerence between the slaves of European slave-owners
and the slaves of African slave-owners was that the former were less likely to be eaten by their
owners than the latter.

Given the choice, and even taking into account the horriIc conditions on the trans-Atlantic
slaver ships and the pestilential climate of the West Indies, I think I’d rather be a slave of
Europeans who might have some recollection of Christian morals than a slave of the monstrous
Cannibal Kings of Dahomey.

Therefore, if I were a descendant of slaves living in the UK or USA today, I think I’d be grateful to
my ancestors’ owners for their help in making it possible for me to live the wonderfully free (and
totally uneaten) life I live today.

How should such gratitude be expressed? A brief genuTection before soccer matches would
suUce, just to say, “Thank you, Whitey.”

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BigdaddyTexascommenting :) 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 AT 6:39 AM

Amazingly, it seems like only the U.S. conservatives, predominantly the farmers living in the
GREAT state of Texas, understand this.

The U.K., other than Douglas Murray, are pathetic weaklings; their conservative party is socialist,
and spend most of their time prancing around, talking about how they will “help people” — well,
this is where your virtuous thuggery leads. Forcing people to pay into big government programs
will only reduce liberty, as those programs and their regulatory imposition become larger, and
centralized actors do not produce better outcomes. When will you realize that the problem with
the health care system (and Inancial system) was created by government; if you actually go back
and look at the record it wasn’t government that came and saved the day and provided care for
those that couldn’t get it; it was government, through regulation, that increased the price to the
point that the poor could not aFord it and to the point where service providers could not oFer a
lower price. And the monopoly on Inance is disgusting. Those thugs need to be brought to their
knees, and the best way to do that isn’t war. It’s to simply adopt a decentralized currency like
Bitcoin — which as you can imagine they vehemently oppose. And incidentally, it doesn’t have to
be bitcoin. It just has to be a public blockchain capable of handling billions of transactions per
second, and which has a FIXED supply so that apparatchiks cannot steal from you in the form of
inTation.

At some point, the liberal world order will crumble under the weight of the morons who
propagate it. Do-gooders and their arrogant socialist peddlers, do not do good; they think they
are so kind and wondeful and caring and loving, but they are not. Kindness is respect for
individual rights; it’s a respect for labour and the body that produces that labour, and respecting
labour means not coercing people into paying for your shitty centralized programs. At least give
them an option.

The pound is not crashing because of low taxes, which is being propagated by the “trusted news
initiative”….it’s falling because the only way to deal with inTation (too much printing) is to raise
interest rates, which increases borrowing costs and reduces production. And the only reason
the dollar is increasing is because every small businessman in the world is hoping, praying, to
whatever god they serve that the dollar can weather the upcoming storm — at least, better than
most — and so they are transferring their assets.

Conservatives in the UK should just rally around Murray. He’s the only one with a damn brain. In
fact, I think he should emigrate to Texas. We’ll take him. Your country is already dead. Weaklings
I say. Little weaklings.

There might be times when the government has to rectify a negative externality, but those times
are rare, and when they do exist they are best solved at the local level. It’s easier to hold your
local mayor accountable for his actions, much harder to stop someone 5000 kilometers away.

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A Dead Limey Weakling 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 AT 9:18 AM

This is just the kind of ignorant unsolicited generalised transatlantic abuse we get on
websites like Occidental Observer and sometimes American Renaissance. Yes, Murray is
good, but he is not alone. The solution to escalating bank debt and inTation lies primarily
with a money lending system with an excessive “fractional” reserve; see the books by Ivo
Mosley [though not a fascist like his grandpa] and Frances Hutchinson, for example.
Bitcoin is bust.

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D D Tee 27TH SEPTEMBER 2022 AT 8:22 PM

Texas: The Biggest (contiguous) State, the Biggest Oil, the Biggest Motels, the Biggest
Cars, the Biggest Guns, the Biggest Prisons, the Biggest Cops, the Biggest Hats, the
Biggest Diners, the Biggest Kids, the Biggest Bigots, and Biggest Mouths.

They are, like, amaZING!

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David ASHTON 26TH SEPTEMBER 2022 AT 10:38 AM

I observed and documented the outwards and upwards incremental ratchet promotion of this
poisonous “religion” from its US beginning as the “race, gender, class” movement in the 1960s
through to its recent imposition as “diversity, inclusion, equality” in the UK, EU and elsewhere.
Warnings were greeted successively by initial incredulity, then complacency and Inally
collaboration. It can and must be defeated, but this will require thorough knowledge, an adroit
strategy and a prolonged eFort.

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