“Peak Woke”

Defence Secretary ‘speechless’ at MoD splashing out £5m on electric racers as he strives to cut out waste

Cash from the stretched military budget was splurged on sponsoring a “Formula Woke” racing team, an audit of defence spending has revealed.

Taxpayers’ money meant for front-line troops was instead used to emblazon the Ministry of Defence’s logo on the mudflaps of an electric rally car.

John Healey, the Defence Secretary, has now cancelled the £5 million contract with McLaren after being left “speechless” by the “waste”.

King Charles was involved in a decision to change the name of a new royal submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, a move that was branded “woke nonsense” by former defence secretary Grant Shapps, the BBC has been told.

The name change was announced this week, and followed reports of concern within the Ministry of Defence that the original name for the vessel may have offended the French.

Agincourt refers to a battle England won against France in 1415, as part of the Hundred Years’ War.

A former corporate exec explains why the world’s CEOs are suddenly sucking up to Trump and ditching DEI.

Every January, world leaders and CEOs gather in the Swiss mountain town of Davos for the annual week-long meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). There they discuss the big issues of the day and present themselves as global agenda setters.

But there was something very different about this year’s confab. All the reports from the WEF suggest that the attendees have started to warm to US president Donald Trump and many of his policies. Which has come as a shock to those accustomed to Davos bigwigs talking up workplace diversity, promising to fight climate change and denouncing the rise of ‘authoritarian’ populism.

Police officers have been told not to use the terms “black sheep” and “blacklisted” in case they offend someone.

A nine-page document, seen by The Telegraph, was published online in 2023 in a diversity, equality and inclusion reference guide for staff at Bedfordshire Police and Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire constabularies.

It stated that “pregnant person” should be used instead of references to pregnant women and “Christian-centric” language like the term “faith” should be avoided.

OTTAWA—Wasteful. Weird. Wacko. Woke.

It may seem strange how four letters strung together, nestled among a series of alliterative buzzwords, bearing a modern definition so amorphous so as to be nearly meaningless, can evoke such clear feelings of something bad, of something reaching into places it shouldn’t.

But the word, lifted from the oeuvres of Black political activists, singers and writers, has became one of the terms Pierre Poilievre has relied on most to discredit his political rivals in his relentless bid to end almost a decade of Liberal rule.

The Star is delusional.

Society weaponized woke against the leftist loons who used it to cancel anyone or any idea they disagreed with.

Woke was always about control and turnabout is fair play.

The most important thing to know about Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is that she is the first LGBTQ fire chief in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

It’s also the only thing worth knowing about the woman in charge while Los Angeles burned.

JUST IN: Los Angeles Fire Department chief Kristin Crowley turns on Los Angeles leadership, says they failed her.

Remarkable interview.

Crowley called out the city for having no water in the Santa Ynez Reservoir.

Reporter: "Did the city of Los Angeles fail you and your… pic.twitter.com/fUQPoW32QA

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 10, 2025

h/t DS

In retrospect, maybe the military should have spent a little less time worrying about “white supremacists” and paid more attention to black Muslims. As you’ve no doubt heard by now, an Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who happened to be a black Muslim, slaughtered 14 New Year’s revelers in New Orleans last week.

In the days before Donald Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the Secret Service needed a member of his protective detail to develop a security plan to keep the former president safe as he addressed a crowd of thousands at an open-air fairground.

With agents stretched thin by the presidential campaign, the agency turned to a “junior” member of the detail, according to an independent review panel commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security.