My Lords, I think I am probably quite woke, and proud to be so; none the less, I support the broad thrust of the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, subject to a couple of caveats. The first caveat is a slightly light-hearted one. As a serial offender, I gently say to noble Lords and friends across the Committee that the overuse of adjectives named for great writers does not always help the cause of human rights. We have all done it: \u201cDickensian\u201d for socioeconomic rights and \u201cOrwellian\u201d or even \u201cKafkaesque\u201d for civil liberties. \u201cChilling\u201d is similar. In fact, an online wit once said of my overuse of these terms: \u201cThat Chakrabarti woman finds everything chilling. She sees refrigerators everywhere.\u201d That is just a gentle point about the way we frame this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baroness Chakrabarti,
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My Lords, I think I am probably quite woke, and proud to be so; none the less, I support the broad thrust of the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, subject to a couple of caveats. The first caveat … Continue reading