Your woke correspondent has emerged this week from hibernation into the light of a brave new Wokeworld where white people are clambering over each other to ‘educate themselves’ about ‘structural racism’, ‘white fragility’ and their own ‘implicit racial bias’, if Amazon’s Most Sold books chart is anything to go by. Dare I say it, racism has become the new black. 

In this column we’ve previously exposed the racist evils of shoes, tea, the names of towns, brains, and even Mary Poppins, under whose saccharine façade, I’m sorry to say, lurks a vile bigot. A spoonful of sugar, my eye! Similarly, we’ve unmasked Western science, mathematics and academic writing as the jack-booted oppressors of the POC masses they unquestionably are. But boy, were we...