The vicious culture wars will be coming back again

PEOPLE who like to look on the bright side of life are starting to say the culture wars are over now because they didn't seem to play much part in the last election.

- Peter York

I don't believe it for a moment. We live in a bigger world where the UK's new centrist government is an exception.

Just wait for the campaigns, the speeches, and deep-fake films that will come the world's way in the run up to the US elections in November.

And just look at this week's riots.

But what are culture wars anyway? Who is behind them? How can you tell? "culture wars" are, like "woke", part of everyone's new political vocabulary. And, just like "woke", no-one has ever explained them properly.

Mr Johnson, our recent prime minister, explained culture wars like this, describing what his favourite political campaign manager, Sir Lynton Crosby, actually does: "There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table-and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted.