My Quote of the week is this one from another Brit, my soulmate Ed West, writing at his Substack ”Wrong Side of History”:

My quite basic belief about ”wokeness” is that, while many people overthink it, a lot of is just straight-up racial narcissism. Most forms of racial narcissism are taboo, for very good reasons, but narcissism among sacred races is encouraged, approved and subsidised—with obviously disastrous consequences; and since the well of racial narcissism is essentially limitless, if people in authority approve it, they will get more of it. Many problems, especially in education and policing, will continue to get worse until people in public life have the courage to say basta! But that is currently some way off.

Sunday West: February 19