Jessica Harper Is Not Woke

The clue is in the title. I decided to write Jessica Shelton is Not Woke because I was amazed to see (during the many hours I spent browsing for books on Amazon) that no anti-woke novel existed. Not one. Not even a self-published dickie bird. And that is still true. There are plenty of non-woke novels, obviously - thrillers thankfully steer clear of the nonsense, on the whole - but there are no novels that actually say hang on, what the hell has happened to society, we are living through a time that is more serious (because it's all of society, not just Hollywood) that is like a new McCarthy era.   It was an irresistible prospect - to write the world's first anti-woke novel. It seemed akin to discovering a product that a large proportion of the world was crying out for, but only you had the blueprint for. Of course, Jessica Shelton is Not Woke might just appear on Amazon and, despite my best efforts at marketing it (or just because people don't like it) it fails to make a ...

Depressing news from a friend, who says his workplace Christmas karaoke ended in soul searching and finger pointing after some people sang the N word, during a rap by a black artist (who presumably hadn't been forced to use that word against his own free will). My friend says this caused a storm the next day in the "allies" ie sycophants thread, with a suggestion (by the young pronoun botherers, as he calls them) that next year everyone wears name badges so presumably it will be easy for the thought police to identify the guilty afterwards if it's videoed. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that there won't be a karaoke next Christmas. What do you think? Also this from today's Daily Telegraph (UK, sub required, but the first four pars are below). Goes again to prove that when we worry about woke politicians, it's actually woke business and charity leaders who are the bigger, more widespread, more ingrained problem. Still, this one does at least h...