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Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
‘Woke waste': The biggest scandal you've never heard of
' Most people know about 'woke' and how it has captured our institutions, but what I've found, through a series of inadvertent rabbit holes, is how much of it we [the taxpayer] are funding. Billions in total.' Charlotte Gill is an investigative journalist who founded and runs Woke Waste, a website that examines taxpayer funded grants to charities and institutions. She describes herself on X as running 'DOGE UK', DOGE being the Elon Musk headed Department of Government Efficiency in Trump's administration. ' There are a lot of government quangos, especially in the arts sector. You've got the Arts Council England, which we give £445 million per year to. It funds the likes of Soho Theatre, giving it just under £2 million, which put on shows like '52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals' and a comedy show where white audience members are encouraged to check their privilege at the door.' She joins Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan on this week's Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above. ' One of the worst areas that would worry taxpayers is the funding going into charities. We think that they're good causes, but a lot of them are lobbying for open borders, with our money. ' I also think there's a bigger danger with NGOs [non-government organisations] generally. Most of them are politically active and Far Left in a way that the Right would never be able to get away with. It's potentially opening up Britain to lots of foreign interference meddling.' Planet Normal, a weekly Telegraph podcast featuring news and views from beyond the bubble. Listen on the audio player above or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred podcast app. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
13-03-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
‘Woke waste': The biggest scandal you've never heard of
' Most people know about 'woke' and how it has captured our institutions, but what I've found, through a series of inadvertent rabbit holes, is how much of it we [the taxpayer] are funding. Billions in total.' Charlotte Gill is an investigative journalist who founded and runs Woke Waste, a website that examines taxpayer funded grants to charities and institutions. She describes herself on X as running 'DOGE UK', DOGE being the Elon Musk headed Department of Government Efficiency in Trump's administration. ' There are a lot of government quangos, especially in the arts sector. You've got the Arts Council England, which we give £445 million per year to. It funds the likes of Soho Theatre, giving it just under £2 million, which put on shows like '52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals' and a comedy show where white audience members are encouraged to check their privilege at the door.' She joins Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan on this week's Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above. ' One of the worst areas that would worry taxpayers is the funding going into charities. We think that they're good causes, but a lot of them are lobbying for open borders, with our money. ' I also think there's a bigger danger with NGOs [non-government organisations] generally. Most of them are politically active and Far Left in a way that the Right would never be able to get away with. It's potentially opening up Britain to lots of foreign interference meddling.'
