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59% of Britons don't know what "

" means and yet it is the word that is igniting the

The term was popularized earlier in the United States, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, to define people who are "awake" or "vigilant" in the face of social injustice.

But it has been in the British Isles where it has acquired its pejorative tone, used ad nauseam by the tabloids to disqualify the "savvy" or "knowledgeable" who have taken their principles too far.

For example, with

with the defense of "

" people or with the purge of books in schools and universities.

Let's say that "

up " aspired to be something like a 21st century update on what is "politically correct", with special attention to

Although its use, since it was admitted to the

in 2017, has been seriously distorted.

To the point that more than a virtue it already seems an insult...

"The '

' ideology is reaching all sides and is a dangerous form of decline in our society," Conservative Party Chairman

recently warned as he passed through Washington.

Dowden took advantage of the "

" pulpit of the Heritage Foundation to spur on the hosts of the British hard right, which is once again stirring the political tide as it has not done since Brexit.

"In our schools and in our universities, in the faculties of Social Sciences and pure sciences, in government agencies and in corporations...".

Dowden drew a long-range "

" map and warned that the virus has already spread to intelligence agencies, with the

pamphlet cautioning against the use of words like "strong" or "domain" that can serve to "reinforce dominant cultural values".

Dowden took advantage of his trip to call for an end to the "

"

on both sides of the Atlantic: "The United States and the United Kingdom may be two very different societies at times, but we are united by the same fundamental values. We cannot give them up." to commune with these dogmas, as if the defense of freedoms were something reactionary".

"Do you think that President Biden is "

"?" They came to ask "premier" Boris Johnson, who replied casually: "There is nothing wrong with being"

"".

as Secretary of Culture ,

at the head of the Government's anti-woke crusade, with the BBC as the scapegoat.

Until then, Dorries had been known for standing up to David Cameron ("Calm down, dear") and the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.

Although her real rise to fame came in the jungle and in

her (she was temporarily suspended as a deputy for failing to report her participation in the

).

Born in 1957, into a working-class family in Liverpool, Dorries boasts precisely that she is not the typical right-wing woman clinging to her privileges.

Which does not prevent him from attacking the "

" (or "snowflakes"), another way of calling or denigrating the "

"...

"The

on the left are killing comedy, toppling statues, removing books from schools and colleges, removing Christ from Christmas, and suppressing free speech. Sadly, history repeats itself.

Dorries had already identified the BBC as a breeding ground for "

", thanks to its "often hypocritical and very left-wing" vision, embodied in "boring old men" bent on propagating their "Soviet-style" worldview ".

," he warned upon his arrival, and it continues.

Meanwhile, the "

" debate is also causing divisions and controversy on the left.

The last of them has been the one carried out by the former columnist for

Suzanne Moore, 62, who was at the center of a storm about "transphobia" for writing that

Moore left the newspaper after "

" to which she alleges that she was subjected to by several colleagues.

The most notorious case to date has undoubtedly been that of

, whose life changed forever for criticizing the use of the expression

on Twitter in June 2020. Rowling has been turned on by the protagonists of " Harry Potter" has been stigmatized as a "transexclusionary radical feminist" (TERF) and has received "enough death threats to wallpaper my house" in Scotland.

Of the 41% of Britons who say they know what "

" means, 29% say they identify with the term, compared to 56% who shy away from it.

26% think that "

" is a good thing compared to 37% who think it is a bad thing.

used by both the left and the right to create artificial divisions and polarize society.

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