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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby sparked outrage when he claimed that politicians who fail to act on climate change will allow an “infinitely greater” genocide than the Holocaust and be judged “in far stronger terms” than those who appeased Nazi Germany.

South African cricketer Quinton de Kock dropped out of a World Cup game after the team was ordered to take the knee for Black Lives Matter (BLM), but has since felt obliged to issue a humiliating public recantation of his actions.

British department store chain John Lewis has dropped its controversial “woke” ad for home insurance featuring a boy in a dress causing intentional destruction after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) criticised it for being “misleading” in terms of what the policy covers.

The following is an exclusive excerpt from the Babylon Bee’s new book, “The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness,” available on November 2.

Nigel Farage said that teaching ‘white privilege’ is designed to make white people hate their country, history, and themselves.

Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.

White privilege and other tenets of leftist ideology should not be taught in school as “fact”, Britain’s recently installed Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, has pronounced.

The National Theatre of Scotland announced that it will not be using the word “spooky” as it has been used previously as a racial slur.

An elite school in London that charges £19,000 per year, has been teaching white privilege lessons on the alleged racism faced by Meghan Markle.

Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, has defected from the established Church of England to Roman Catholicism after complaining of the obsession with woke “identity politics” in Anglicanism.

Fears that Halloween might offend certain children have caused several elementary schools to cancel the holiday this year.

The Students’ Union at Cambridge University has accused feminists of colluding with the “far-right” on matters concerning transgenderism.

Mike Gibbons, Republican candidate for the Senate from Ohio, said Ohioans reject “globalism” and the “religion” of “wokeism.”

“James Bond is a simp” in No Time to Die, the latest film in the spy franchise, film director Amanda Milius said.

A higher education trade union in Britain has drawn criticism for supporting its members to self-identify as another race.

Justin Danhof said the SEC is allowing Nasdaq to discriminate against “white straight Christian men” with a “diversity” quota regulation.

LEGO has announced that it will remove “harmful” gender stereotypes from its line because boys are reluctant to play with girls’ toys.

Baroness Claire Fox told Breitbart that free speech advocates in the West need to think of new approaches to fight for free speech.

A China-born music professor at the University of Michigan was forced out of teaching a Shakespeare class — and reported to the Office of Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX — after showing the classic 1965 film Othello to his class. The movie offended woke students because it features legendary actor Sir Laurence Olivier with darkened skin playing the title role.

A British university has told students to refrain from using terms such as “founding fathers”, “manmade”, “masterful”, and other words deemed to be sexist or racist.

British Airways has become the latest institution to adopt woke language codes, telling pilots to refrain from using the common airline greeting of “ladies and gentlemen” in an apparent attempt to become more gender-neutral.

Teachers who promote leftist ideas such as “white privilege” should be reported to the anti-extremist programme, a Tory MP reportedly argued.

South Africa’s municipal vote is a chance to reflect on the cost of three decades of “woke” politics — and its threat to the United States.

Leftist publications are seething in the wake of an Axios article published on October 1 that highlights Sen. Krysten Sinema’s (D-AZ) bisexuality does not automatically equate to wokeness.

Sir Keir Starmer, the “uber woke” leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, said that is is “time for a female Bond” following Daniel Craig’s last outing as the iconic British spy in No Time to Die.

The Netflix movie My Little Pony is getting political, according to a New York Times review, which says the film features “an eclectic team of progressive ponies” that take on “a fear mongering demagogue and the prejudices of their communities at large,” as well as “fascism.”

The Biden administration views military veterans as a politically hostile group, former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie said.

Robert Wilkie, former secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and current visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, warned that “woke” ideology is undermining meritocracy, morale, and readiness across the U.S. military in an interview on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

The editor the Lancet has apologised after the medical journal described women as “bodies with vaginas” on the cover of its latest issue.

The Lancet has been accused of dehumanising women after using the phrase “bodies with vaginas” to describe the fairer sex.

England’s Court of Appeal has reversed a High Court decision restricting the use of trans drugs on children, with “detransitioners” worried the ruling may have put “children as young as 10” on “a pathway to sterilisation” again.

Democrats enrich companies like Amazon with “green energy” tax credits while posturing as economic populists, Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-GA) said.

Twelve bishops at the increasingly woke Church of England have penned an open letter to the government urging them not to turn back illegal migrant boats coming from safe, EU member-state France, published by the leftist Guardian. 

Schools in Ontario are facing backlash after burning or destroying books deemed offensive to First Nations, including classic comics such as Tintin and Asterix.

Rob O’Neill, a retired Navy SEAL who took part in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, said on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that “political correctness” and “woke” ideology contributed to the deaths of 13 U.S. military servicepersons in Afghanistan in suicide bombings during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from the failed state.

A British police officer is facing racial misconduct charges for joking “maybe I should start eating curry” on hearing of a South Asian man aged 105.