Woke: A Guide to Social Justice
By Titania McGrath
Constable, 150pp, £12.99/$18.99
An aphorism traditionally attributed to GK Chesterton noted that “when a man stops believing in God he doesn’t then believe in nothing, he believes anything.” This book makes the same point but in a very different way.
Titania McGrath, a “radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest”, is a parody of “wokeness” – the creed of progressive and generally atheistic middle-class liberal intellectuals on a moral crusade to reshape the world in their own image.
