Come on, England!

Michael Abberton
6 min readJul 11, 2021

What side are you on in the culture war?

Queen Victoria, in the Great Hall, Winchester (photo ©Michael Abberton 2021)

The Tory Party in the UK, in pace with their ideological right-wing sister party in the US, the Republicans, are stoking a full-blown culture war against what they term to be ‘left wing’ or pejoratively, ‘woke’. This seems to range from climate change to basic human rights. Rights to protest and even vote are being actively suppressed, academic freedom is being attacked in schools and…

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Michael Abberton

Tomahawk thrower, writer, trade unionist, Japanese speaker and all around good guy.