I’ve heard it called the “omnicause”: the large cluster of distinct issues that are routinely lumped together in trendy progressive political campaigning — trans rights, Palestine, global warming, anti-racism and all the rest of it. Greta Thunberg, for example, who rose to fame seven years ago warning us that we had only five years before disaster, appears to have shifted her focus from climate catastrophe to Palestine, recently setting sail on the “Gaza flotilla” for the second time. Even if a protest or demonstration is ostensibly about welfare cuts or exploitation of workers, there will invariably be placards in the crowd expressing concern with something else. It often seems as though these matters are bundled together as a kind of package deal. You are expected to buy into them as a group, because — supposedly — they are all linked, all about liberation from the oppressive social and economic structures imposed by the rich, white heteropatriarchy. In this view, it makes no sense to engage with one of them and not the others. Everything has to be about everything all the time.