Happy Xmas (woke is over)

To mark the end of the year that saw elected politicians of all political stripes impose what retired British top judge Jonathan Sumption described as ‘the greatest inroads on our civil liberties in two hundred years’ here are six Christmas musing or observations – from me to you, as the Beatles would say.

1. Whatever else we can say about the recent US presidential election we know for certain that whole mountains of mail-in votes appeared out of the blue; we know counting in some of the key states was suspended for hours without explanation; we know that party scrutineers (or whatever the Americans call them) were denied access to seeing the ballots and the count for significant periods of time; we know the counting…