Boomers to blame--for everything

Occasional Grud writer EM O'Hagan sniffs the zeitgeist ( or however you detect zeitgeists) to maintain victimhood among the woke:

The social liberalism of the 90s is crumbling, and the people who hated it all along are finding their voice again

Fox [ an actor who rejected a claim on Question Time that his opinions arose from his white and privileged social position] was not the only person in that studio who was weary of contemporary antiracist discourse, and he wasn’t the only person willing to show it.

O'Hagan asserts that;

recent political developments suggest that there are millions of Laurence Foxes up and down the country, and that their views are mainstream. 

How does she know this?

Note, for example, how David Walliams’ joke about Fox went down at the National Television Awards. Walliams implied that Fox would find himself friendless following his appearance on Question Time, presumably expecting laughter and not the chorus of “oohs” that came instead

Pretty compelling I think you will agree. She soon identifies

a growing “anti-woke” backlash that deserves closer examination [by watching the National Television Awards again?]

As examples of this close examination:

The new received wisdom [post Thatcher] dictated that women and LGBT+ people were equal (sort of), and racism was to be condemned (unless you were a Muslim)[! is this sarcasm?]. The reason liberals still believe this consensus holds is that the politics New Labour ushered in was so dominant and all-encompassing that almost every opinion that existed outside of it was dismissed as the view of cranks...social liberalism was not merely a popular point of view: it was the new normal. It was also fundamentally modernising [that is more promising -- fully compatible with advanced capitalism is how I would put it]...Now that same political consensus is collapsing across the world [from some members of a TV audience sighing to world collapse]

[There is a growing] group of people (primarily older, white homeowners and pensioners) [why not just say 'boomers'?] who had never bought into the consensus in the first place, and are aggressively hostile to its newer, more radical iteration.

We all know a member of this demographic: alienated by the modern world and displeased by change, they are fond of complaining that “You can’t say anything any more!” – even as their opinions are widely reproduced in the nation’s print media. Perhaps they spent the 2000s retreating into the Daily Mail columns of Richard Littlejohn and his contemporaries, or simply feeling lost altogether. They are the people that have enabled Brexit and Donald Trump [now we get to it] to succeed, and have since transformed themselves into the base of a potent political movement....Progressives need to wise up to the fact that they are losing this argument and decide what they are going to do in response. If they don’t, they may soon find that the future they always assumed was theirs is being made without them.

Elsewhere, el Grun is strangely puzzled by the returns from one of its 'callouts':

British citizens living in the EU remain confused and worried about their post-Brexit healthcare and pension provision, despite the fact that both issues were settled satisfactorily in the withdrawal agreement, a Guardian callout suggests....Much of the confusion has arisen because of announcements last year about the rules that would apply in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The signing of the withdrawal agreement, a legally binding international treaty, means these are no longer valid....“People have been focused on these no-deal arrangements and many are not aware of what’s in the withdrawal agreement,”...“The settlement for healthcare provision and state pensions is actually quite satisfactory,”