I agree with the thrust of your piece in that Conservatives and their friends in the press will look increasingly deranged if they lambast Britain's fustiest institutions as woke – although as looking increasingly deranged seems to have been the strategy for the past few years, perhaps we shouldn't discount it.
But on a wider point, I don't think ‘woke’ is that hard to define, or at least it's not much harder than concepts like conservatism and liberalism. Yes, there is a wider, sillier use of the word that encompasses things like recycling. And there is a narrower version that includes things like micro aggressions. But the fact that everyone knows Nigel Farage isn't woke indicates that's is meaningful a political designation as any.
I agree with the thrust of your piece in that Conservatives and their friends in the press will look increasingly deranged if they lambast Britain's fustiest institutions as woke – although as looking increasingly deranged seems to have been the strategy for the past few years, perhaps we shouldn't discount it.
But on a wider point, I don't think ‘woke’ is that hard to define, or at least it's not much harder than concepts like conservatism and liberalism. Yes, there is a wider, sillier use of the word that encompasses things like recycling. And there is a narrower version that includes things like micro aggressions. But the fact that everyone knows Nigel Farage isn't woke indicates that's is meaningful a political designation as any.