We will remember 2025 as the year that a madness which had gripped us for a decade finally succumbed to that most irritating of things, reality – and the edifice it had built began to crumble like a 1970s brutalist building constructed from high alumina cement. It is not quite the case that woke is over, as Piers Morgan believes, simply that its appurtenances have become despised and those who shout most loudly in favour of its idiotic shibboleths are confined to a smaller and smaller tranche of far-left delusionals.

The decision of the Supreme Court in April that the word ‘sex’ as used in the Equality Act should refer to a person’s biological sex, rather than what they were pretending to be, is usually regarded as the catalyst for a mass volte face on intersectional politics’ most grandly stupid campaign, transgender rights – and it undoubtedly hastened the process. But it was a process that had been under way for at least a couple of years and I do not think that the Supreme Court judges would have made the same decision if the case had been held two years earlier. Their worships, or whatever the hell you call them, are no more above the political fray than the rest of us. Rather, what the Supreme Court judges did was to catch the flavour of the moment – and its decision allowed those weak-spined individuals (and groups) who went along with the whole idiocy without really believing it to reassess their positions. No longer was a tortured Sir Keir Starmer........

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