We live in a land whose orthodox religion is, apparently, diversity, equality and inclusion. That is what Suella Braverman, the Attorney-General for England and Wales, tells us in a piece for the Daily Mail. To which the obvious response is what a marvellous country Britain has suddenly and unexpectedly become. It would be wonderful to live in a land in which diversity, equality and inclusion were the dominating ideas of public discourse. It reminds me of when people moan about the liberal elite. If democratic politics requires an elite of any sort – which it does – then a liberal elite is just the elite I am looking for.
Sadly, it’s not true that diversity, equality and inclusion is the new orthodoxy, and it is not true that we have a liberal elite either. The first exhibit in that particular case is the fact Suella Braverman is the Attorney-General for England and Wales. It is quite remiss of the liberal elite to allow someone so illiberally ungenerous into a position of such eminence. What kind of liberal elite appoints someone to the pinnacle of the judicial system who is prepared to pretend that the breaking of an international treaty such as the Northern Ireland protocol of the Brexit deal is in fact entirely in order? And it is a pretty unsuccessful liberal elite whose Attorney-General is to be found writing a child-like primal scream of an article about the war on woke.
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