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Drug abusers are to be treated like they have “a health problem” rather than a propensity to indulge in self-destructive and sometimes criminal behaviour in Scotland, with terms like “alcoholic” and “addict” scrapped in favour of woke alternatives.

An internal European Commission communications document has advised bureaucrats to avoid terms like “Christmas time” to be more inclusive.

UK Civil servants have axed the word ‘Christmas’ from a proposed government campaign, for fear the term will offend minorities.

When naming the latest coronavirus variant, the WHO skipped the fourteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, spelled Xi.

An elite British university has banned the phrase ‘trigger warning’ because the term may in itself be too “provocative” and trigger students.

Chinese dissident and famed artist Ai Weiwei has warned the current wave of “dangerous” political correctness has more similarities with Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution than former President Donald Trump.

Leftist internet trolls have been crying racism in response to Kyle Rittenhouse trial Judge Bruce Schroeder’s reference to “Asian food” on Thursday as the court went into recess.

Thousands of children’s books, such as Dr Seuss, have been slapped with trigger warnings by Cambridge University for alleged racism.

The increasingly partisan Anti-Defamation League (ADL) interjected itself into the annual Halloween debate this week.

White privilege and other tenets of leftist ideology should not be taught in school as “fact”, Britain’s recently installed Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, has pronounced.

As the old adage goes, the children of the revolution always eat the fathers of the revolution, and comedian Ricky Gervais looks forward to the day when the children of today’s woke generation call their parents fascist.

Left-wing activist and actress Alyssa Milano says Netflix should pull veteran comedian Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer,” adding that it is “really important to hold people accountable” in this new era of cancel culture.

The National Theatre of Scotland announced that it will not be using the word “spooky” as it has been used previously as a racial slur.

An elite school in London that charges £19,000 per year, has been teaching white privilege lessons on the alleged racism faced by Meghan Markle.

Michael Nazir-Ali, the former Bishop of Rochester, has defected from the established Church of England to Roman Catholicism after complaining of the obsession with woke “identity politics” in Anglicanism.

Fears that Halloween might offend certain children have caused several elementary schools to cancel the holiday this year.

Jon Stewart declared that cancel culture does not exist, arguing that proponents of it are merely upset over “democratized criticism.” 

A higher education trade union in Britain has drawn criticism for supporting its members to self-identify as another race.

Baroness Claire Fox told Breitbart that free speech advocates in the West need to think of new approaches to fight for free speech.

A British university has told students to refrain from using terms such as “founding fathers”, “manmade”, “masterful”, and other words deemed to be sexist or racist.

Teachers who promote leftist ideas such as “white privilege” should be reported to the anti-extremist programme, a Tory MP reportedly argued.

A British police officer is facing racial misconduct charges for joking “maybe I should start eating curry” on hearing of a South Asian man aged 105.

Jonathan Neman, CEO and cofounder of the salad restaurant chain Sweetgreen, has been taking a beating on social media after linking obesity with coronavirus deaths.

Scotland’s left-separatist government has published its astonishing new agenda for “Embedding race equality in schools”, pushing documents which teach woke ideology on “white privilege”, “white fragility”, “decolonising the curriculum”, “structural racism”, and the alleged non-existence of “reverse racism” as fact.

Deputy Chief Constable Julie Cooke has claimed that  UK police “hate crime” cars with rainbows have a “huge” impact.

Referring to Indian food as “curry” is a racist relic of British colonialism, according to woke academics and food influencers.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s Green party has come under fire on social media for tweeting a photograph of its election candidates cropped in such a way as to remove all the men.

LONDON (AP) – British police said Thursday they have made 11 arrests in connection with the online racial abuse of England soccer players following their team’s loss to Italy in the final of the European Championship last month.

The health secretary has ordered a review of NHS guidance after it was revealed that three hospital trusts in England advised that biological male sex offenders who ‘self-identify’ as women could be admitted onto female-only wards after a risk assessment.

Police in the German city of Leipzig have come under fire after describing three suspects involved in an alleged gang rape case as having an “Arab phenotype”.

The Merseyside Police force released a video in which officers promised to “promote pronoun awareness” for the city’s LGBT Pride weekend.

Toy Story and Last Man Standing star Tim Allen, who has lamented the dominance of the “thought police” and the impact they have had on comedy, joked about government agents policing his performance as he headed to Michigan for two sold-out shows after being off stage for over a year.

Jackie Mason was, to hear him tell it, the last normal person left — the first, and perhaps the last, cancel culture survivor.

English “operated as a language of the coloniser,” the University of East Anglia told students in the latest decolonise the curriculum push.

A leading teacher’s union called for “activist training” on “whiteness” to make “white privilege and colonialism” visible in schools.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson told fellow world leaders that they should be “building back better” in a “more gender-neutral, perhaps more feminine way” at a G7 roundtable.