How Woke Won

'Woke' identity politics, cancel culture and trans ideology reign. The values of 'inclusivity' and 'diversity' dominate politics, academia, the media, big business and the language we speak. Censorship and public shaming are the price you pay for dissent. Beneath this lies a politics that is reactionary and elitist. Racial divisions are rehabilitated in the name of anti-racism. Women's rights are destroyed in the name of trans rights. Ordinary people are demonised as bigots, while virtue-signalling corporations pose as radical. This is a book about how a once fringe set of ideas took our elites by storm, and why this is bad news for everyone. Joanna Williams argues that it is time to come together to forge a freer, more democratic and truly egalitarian future.