Theresa May, Britain’s fourth-most-recent prime minister, has a book to sell. In a recent interview, the former Conservative leader declared herself “woke and proud.” In The Abuse of Power, she cites an Oxford English Dictionary definition of woke as being “well-informed, up to date and chiefly alert to racial discrimination and injustice.” She told her interviewer: “And on that basis, who would not want to be woke?”
May left office in 2019 (politics comes at you fast in the U.K.), but she still sits in Parliament and, presumably, stays abreast of current affairs. It is not ignorance, then, that explains her resorting to the dictionary when discussing wokeness. Rather, it demonstrates the bad faith typical of many leading proponents of woke policies and ideas.
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