In February 2020, I was invited on to the BBC’s The Big Questions to debate the topic: ‘Is wokeness the new religion?’ I had already anticipated that mine would be the unfashionable view, and so I steeled myself in advance for the inevitable onslaught. This being a British daytime television show, the onslaught took the form of audible grumbles and a few raised eyebrows.
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This article is an extract from Andrew Doyle’s latest book, ‘The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World’, out now.
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