The Imperial War Museum recently apologised for ending its Remembrance Sunday silence this year with a 'woke' rap attacking Sir Winston Churchill.
Bizarre and grossly disrespectful as this spectacle was, I cannot say I was surprised. Contempt for our nation and history is now so widespread that it has infiltrated our most important institutions and the people who run them.
'Wokeism' is founded on the bitter prejudice that the entire Judeo-Christian tradition, and the Western societies that stem from it, are fundamentally corrupt. That, at its heart, our society is intrinsically racist and intolerant.
If the West is wicked, it follows that everywhere else is persecuted and virtuous. A disturbing moral certainty typifies woke movements, a belief in the purity and primacy of their cause.
Their views are confirmed and reinforced by social media, a place for posing, posturing and positioning, but rarely for discussion.
In our brave new world, activist groups vie for attention by shouting ever louder in what can best be described as a competition of victimhood.
Imperial War Museum recently apologised for ending its Remembrance Sunday silence this year with a 'woke' rap attacking Sir Winston Churchill. Pictured: Statue of Churchill in Parliament Square defaced during protest in June 2020
On the surface it is difficult to understand why reasonably well-educated people could be inclined to agree with such a warped world view.
Yet it transpires that our Civil Service is allowing these politically motivated doom-mongers access to vast sums of precious public money that, once secured, is spent to deride and divide us.
The most high-profile culprit is Stonewall, of course, which has received millions of pounds in public funding to evangelise a trans agenda that has been disowned by many feminists and even some in the LGBT community.
The problem is deeper and more endemic than many people understand and goes to the heart of how we are governed.
Across Whitehall, departments are granting huge sums of taxpayer money to groups that are openly hostile to the British values of fairness, open-mindedness, mutual respect and reasonableness.
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