THE GATHERER

So much was this trend that I was almost disappointed when 2018 ended without UK Girlguiding transgender row blowing up on  Damore-esque  scale. Perhaps, surfeited with Brexit, there was little room over Yule for the UK political-right to adopt that controversy as another spurious evidence of Britain  (indeed ‘the West’) slowly mirroring Saudi Arabia with the immediate condemnation of anyone who abhors ‘ legitimate concerns ’, whether it be over immigration, feminism or LGBTQ issues. Under guise of ‘free speech’ and allegation of ‘identity politics’ (a phrase that quickly disintegrates under scrutiny), the political-right have successfully triggered a proletariat angst across the West. The proletariat are now, of course, patriotically defending their societies, echoed in chants of ‘take back control’ in the UK and ‘drain the swamp’ in the United States.  That the human identity is fragmented, and the fragment of our identity we choose to prioritise differs individually, seems to e