Love how Rod manages to emphasise the phrase 'Wokery' with such contempt every time he says it. Ho ho!

Glad to see Black Rod looking good. He always cheers me up. A lovely Christmas present, Freddy. Thank you and Seasonal Greetings to you both.

Good to see Rod making a real effort on the appearance front.

Peak wank was a previous Liddell euphomism for woke. Loving it.

Health and wellness correspondent 😂😂😂

There seems to be a paradox within the idea of woke individualism as wokery itself demands adherence to a set of rules.

He is right in his comments about the individualism thing, especially the increase in narcissism.

Rod Liddle spot on as usual. Cheers...from Fly-over, Missouri county!

The word 'Woke' is like 'Woman': most of us know what it means. 😄

Yes. More Rod please.

Yes Rod! Stigma can be a good thing, I’ve long thought this.

Woke is not individualistic, but rather a herd phenomenon of the aggrieved

Rod and Freddie what a way to start the day 😊

I agree that we have not adequately replaced religion but still believe that it is a religious urge animating those lunatics gluing themselves to paintings, etc.

His column in the latest Spectator is really excellent!

The lovechild of Tony Hancock and Peggy Mount.

"Jiggery-wokery" (Toby Young)

If you don't think it's cultural marxism, I suggest you watch the series on the New Discourses channel by James Lindsay. Watch a few of those then decide. People who really see what's happening in education can see the indoctrination of cultural marxism being taught to children, breaking the structure of society apart, starting with individuals, their relationships and their families. The focus on individualism is creating a generation who can't relate to anyone, they can't even relate and connect to themselves. It's creating a generation of lost and broken people who will welcome a strong paternalistic authority to tell them what to do. This is a long game. Wake up Granddad liddle. Get with the programme. Wake up to what's been happening for a while. This is a long game. Society/culture is being sleepwalked into totalitarianism. Times have changed.

Surprised Rod Lidl has time to fit this interview in.. his shop must be heaving this time of year la

You can't imagine Freddie getting cross with Rod......he dare not 😅

John Newman said, ‘I sought to hear the voice of God so I climbed the highest steeple but God declared. Go down I am among the people’ . Rob we may no longer be a Christian country but He is still here and definitely bigger than woke!

It would be interesting to hear Rod talk to James Lindsay or Helen Pluckrose about this.

It basically comes down to the Genesis narrative of partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. You decide what is good and bad--no absolutes, that's it--there's no God, you are God. Then see where that absolute freedom gets you. Voila! Here we are.

Bumped into Rod this morning. Made my day :-)

Wankery would seem a good word to cover the topic!

"I believe THE TRUTH will make us free." Jordan Peterson

Wow, I have not seen Rodd go so deep and perceptive, while looking like he's been dragged backwards through a hedge.

Yes, very good.

Before "woke" the term was "political correctness," which is not so catchy, but probably more useful.

Rod is the greatest person ever to have all gravy down him.

Golly ,Rod looks SO well. No cigs. But hope he is still allowed wine. All the best. C. 85yrs.

The voice of sanity. And funny with it.

WHERE is the racial diversity in african football teams???????????????????

I applaud Rod Liddle after his article "Away with the Fairies" which I just read in (the print issue of) The Spectator

We had Rod and Freddy, but where was Jane.

I have long thought that if Elgar was still with us would he write 'The Stigma Variations'.

A term of abuse is never meaningless 🎉

Rod Liddle is brilliant.

When Rod says we have built wokery ourselves, he is speaking for the Legacy Media inhabitants? :)

Love Rods skank accent 😃 I sound like that but I'm not woke I identify as non woke 😄

As always, Rod makes some interesting and even profound points in a most entertaining manner.

We need a discussion about how the PURVEYORS, or FACILITATORS of Woke messages (BBC, newspapers, university administrations, school administrations, town councils, etc.) can be forced to convey and accommodate diverse opinions on key topics rather than just playing safe and representing and supporting ultra-liberal "woke" views. Some ideas: de-fund the BBC, stop buying newspapers which do not present diverse views, defund schools and universities which do not allow for different opinions to be heard.

I like Rod Liddle. There are a few people that I really like- #RodLiddle #PeterHitchens #KonstantinKisin and yes even #NigelFarage and the National treasure #annewiddicombe. I have loads of left wing friends. And yes I class then as my friends. I’m not left wing- but - as far as I know ( and I’m sure it will change) right wing is not a crime. Yet! And I could Freddy for hours ( eye candy 🤪)

Hilarious !

The Chicago School did not seek to get away from society. It understood that risk needs to be distributed across as many actors as wish to participate in economic activity .

The Thatcher Mantra was to be self supporting, if you weren't ill, so you could help those who were. And being lazy isn't an illness.

For once a sensible topic with a bright guest

'Misgendering' is recognising actual sex in current times. (correct gendering)

I am a Catholic and some weeks ago a friend took me to an Evangelical Church. It was nice and everyone was very welcoming but there was no prayers and it was more like a pop concert. We are supporting Washington's War in the Ukraine but they won't give us a trade deal. It makes no sense to me.

Rod here pulls together many of the things I've believed were harming our society through their consequences over the last few decades. I shall ponder on it some more over the Christmas period...it's like an unsolvable puzzle!

Love Rod , the north's very own East Cheam Tony Hancock ' Not sure lack of religious belief is a factor in ''wokeness' The Cof E is as woke as they come, and most folks are rightly sceptical of priests grand supernatural claims.

Have 'we' (the royal type) built wokery, or was it engineered (by intent of others), as was stated decades ago by those who intended to build it, with zero regrets about making that agenda very clear ?

The Frankfurt School of economics doesn't do away with the notion of society. The Frankfurt School is in favour of voluntary charity (a true society) rather than government-mandated 'charity'.

Wokery - where men can identify as women if they wake up in a funny mood, but you can’t wish someone Merry Christmas.

Yea, great, where's my scotch?

Wokeism *is* a religious. It not delivering some of the side-products of christianity does not mean it's not a religion. A religion is a set of irrational beliefs. Wokeism is *exactly* that.

Humanism replaces religion beautifully and with the kind of rationality that Rod enjoys.

Explaining the need to silence Migraine Narcle.

I will have to look up “skank” now.

More and more people are turning away from traditional religion, but instead of becoming atheistic are looking for God within, and to me this is most welcome. I suppose that sometimes it's all right to defer gratification, but wise spiritual teachers like Eckhart Tolle explain that joy, the joy of living, should in theory always be available in the Now, in the present moment.

What has Freddie done with his hair !? Give up the products !

12:30 Didn't Methodists own Windrush?

All evil Wokery must be banned from this great land of ours.

more Rod Liddle again please ! Rod reaches Peak Woke Wank here.

"Marx was an empiricist"! Hah! His ideas were based on a priori ideas alone, with no attempt to prove them by citing actual facts. He was a child of his time: the 19th century was littered with new "philosophies," most of which were based on thin air. I had thought that by the 21st century we would have learnt better, but apparently not.

I'd argue that it is an identity-based (as opposed to class-based) marxism, certainly moreso than a Friedman-esque individualism. If a form of individualism is involved, it is the new age Oprah type individualism that treats truth as relative. I wouldn't say this individualism underpins much but it perhaps unwittingly helped smuggle the insane merging of marxist thinking and post-modern 'thinking' to the mainstream.

I love Rod Liddle.

Would the suffragettes be classed as woke

A very arm's length analysis. Completely misses the main thrust of what we are dealing with which is the widespread adoption and societal indoctrination of Critical Theory (which is directly from the Frankfurt School and a product of Marxist analysis). Critical Theory rejects objectivity and pretty much all the values of Classical Liberalism and crucially empiricism. This is where the whole 'lived experience' and 'my truth' comes in. For a better analysis of what wokism is I would recommend people read or listen to James Lindsay.

Jesus H! I like Rod Liddle, but I honestly thought that was Gregor Fisher (Rab C Nesbitt).

Has Ron never heard of Ptsd. Suicide is rampant amongst veterans

Sorry Rod not Rob!

Rod misses the point. What distinguishes woke ideology and practices from previous manifestations of mutated Marxism, is the common element of a therapeutic, and subjective understanding of personhood as opposed to the previous shared moral perspective that was inherited from Christianity. Frank Furedi's (2004) book Cultural Therapy, was way ahead of the curve in understanding this process of intellectual and ethical decay in western culture, which of course has been accelerating since Furedi published his book.

I prefer the term "wokeism" to "wokery."

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Rod is a national treasure, and a man of high intellect. More power to him.

In third world countries ,they know what sex they are

As for the Cultural Marxism stuff, woke is, in the sense of identitarian conflict, group on group. 'Oppressor' vs 'oppressed'. Its not 'class' conflict this time, its identity group conflict.

Millenials were the first to be Wokified.

Serco, Cabalism and Radio Corporation of America?

'kin 'ell. Claire Fox has let herself go.

Rod, every single Woke intellectual directly references Marx!!!! It's so annoying how you ignore that fact.

And wearing a hair shirt and becoming a Puritan without religion ba humbug

Sit up straight - but we’ll spoken - even if doubled up. Get down give me twenty

I disagree with you. There is nothing wrong with being a single mother.

Interesting conversation about morals, standards, etc., while both participants can't even comb their hair.

This channel is woke, all about gender/ ethnic diversity. Should be about marmite sandwich

Apparently it's trendy to be "uncaring" for The Spectator. "Wimp".

Why would ANYONE want more rod liddle

Agreed with most except about being so one sided and unthinking about the situation in Ukraine. There are no heavily one sided issues.

Bio-Leninism.

Not sure if your take on suicide and war works in the united states'.

Who in the heck is Rod Liddle? He's about as Scottish as Jeremy Clarkson. I suppose the Scottish connection could explain the Rab C Nesbitt look mind you.Tw@t.

Wonder if Rod thinks whoever reported him for beating his pregnant girlfriend was wokery?

Are the single mothers or absent fathers the anti social ones Rod?

The corporate exploitation of women is the main issue... to think positive Decent human life is based on men as breadwinners , and women as homemakers , in single-income households Every man should have a high-paying job , and every woman should be provided for by a man with a high-paying job Women have babies... Men provide for them... That was God's Plan for the human race And we came close to achieving that dream in the Sixties Men find completion as breadwinners... Women find completion as homemakers One income should sustain a family That's the object... Let's go for it ! If women have equality in the workforce , they forfeit their husbands' pensions... That's elementary And a husband and wife cannot both have govt jobs... That's a privileged class Not equality We don't want women in the workforce , so stop promoting them Stop lowering standards to achieve "women's equality" Instead of subsidised daycare , subsidise the homemaking role Instead of helping women swing both home and career , help couples manage on one income Instead of extending benefits to gay couples , cut them off to working couples Make benefits conditional on a dedicated homemaker... Homemaking is at least a part-time job... So a woman cannot have a full-time job and receive benefits... Large numbers of women would then relinquish full-time work and opt for part-time With a homemaker allowance , we could restructure the family , the workforce , the economy and society , putting them all on a sustainable footing Think positive... Be practical... And stop the pointless griping Happy Christmas , from your old Uncle Clive

There is a quick repudiation of the argument that wokery comes about as a result of people becoming less religious. Just invert it and say that the new "religion" of wokery comes about because society is saturated with religion and history proves that a pious population always generates new dogmas.

Rod might consider his stance. His leaning and spluttering into the camera on his every appearance does nothing for his telegenic charisma. Lol Rod.

Stewy from family guy.

The only time I hear about wokery is when Rod Liddle or other gobs talk about it. It's almost like the need it to stay employed.