Woke never sleeps | The Spectator Australia

Amongst the – perhaps rather courageous – group of friends and acquaintances who do not subscribe to political correctness quite a few have expressed the opinion that this phenomenon must have peaked and that there will be a strong reaction against it. I regret to say, however, that they are wrong.  

Let me give some recent examples. The Australian National University’s Gender Institute Handbook suggests that teaching staff stop using the word “mother” and replace it with “gestational parent” and substitute for “father” the term “non-birthing parent.” The Handbook goes on to say that, while many students will identify the old expressions, using those terms “excludes those who do not identify with