Another piece about that class of people who seem to sit at the centre of far too many of our institutional and cultural failures. I still struggle to know exactly what to call them. Over the years I’ve tried on labels like the laptop class, the lanyard wearers, the chattering classes, and the woke elite. None of them quite capture the whole phenomenon, but everyone knows roughly who is being described. These are the people who dominate our cultural power centres: media, academia, politics, and the bureaucracy. Sometimes I also include HR departments in ‘big corporates’ as they tend to mimic the social behaviours. They are overwhelmingly educated, urban, comfortably middle class or wealthier, socially liberal to the point of dogma, and deeply wedded to a set of ideological commitments that usually travel under the banner of “wokeness”.
