He said a West “ confident in its values ” would not be “ obsessing over pronouns or indeed seeking to decolonise mathematics ”.... And at the precise point when our resolve ought to be strongest, a pernicious new ideology is sweeping our societies, ” Mr Dowden said. They claim to be' woke', awakened to the so-called truths of our societies.... In Britain, its adherents sometimes describe themselves as ‘social justice warriors’....