The war on woke comes to Stocksbridge

‘This country is in freefall’

Good afternoon members — and welcome to Tuesday’s Tribune.

The word woke originally comes from the US. There it was first used by the African-American community to describe an “alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination”. However, since then it has become used by all and sundry to mean — well, whatever people want it to mean (usually as an insult a…