Tories must rout the new witchfinders

IN the Daily Mail today, Attorney General Suella Braverman signals a major new offensive in the culture wars this country has been losing for far too long.

As in the witch trials of the Middle Ages, she writes of a ‘priestly’ caste of inquisitors on a mission to seek out and cancel anyone who contradicts the woke orthodoxy of ‘diversity, equality and inclusion’.

They hound and bully with impunity, trampling over free speech. Yet instead of challenging them, our schools, universities, institutions and major corporations bow down in spineless appeasement.

A rail worker sacked for daring to ask, in the privacy of his own home, whether black privilege exists in Africa.

Shrill demands for the ‘ decolonising’ of museums and removal of public statues.

The National Trust obsessively hunting down slavery connections and shaming families who bequeathed their homes to the nation.

Asian grooming gangs from Rotherham to Telford left to abuse hundreds of young girls because police were afraid to stop them for fear of being seen as racist.

JK Rowling vilified and black barrister Allison Bailey discriminated against for believing that transgender women can’t change their biological sex.

As Mrs Braverman (herself of ethnic minority heritage) puts it: ‘How did we get to the place where stating the facts of biology can get you sacked?’

How indeed. More importantly, how do we get out of it?

The Attorney General should know she and the next PM will have an almighty fight on their hands to turn this supertanker around. The diversity industry is deeply entrenched and will not go quietly.