In response, progressives are allowing themselves to be distracted and pigeon-holed, ignoring the economic and social content of many women’s, race and environmental issues or paying excessive attention to relatively fringe topics.
Whether it is tub-thumpers like Richard Littlejohn, Rod Liddle and Toby Young opportunist academics like Matthew Goodwin and Eric Kaufman or Etonian intellectuals like Douglas Murray and David Goodhart, they tell a common story about Britain’s proud past that is now being trashed by ‘metropolitan liberal elitists’ and the ‘woke’ mob who are threatening our ancient liberties. Whether it is the singing of Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia on the closing night of the Proms history teaching in schools statues in public spaces: the Right has a consistent story to tell and they find plenty of places to say it. With the Brexit wind in their sails, when an issue of history or culture comes into prominence, they set the terms of the debate.
There’s a battle under way at the heart of British politics and reactionaries are in the ascendancy.
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