The Trump vibe shift was so powerful that its tremors have toppled the president-elect of the Oxford Union. The Anglosphere was a cultural and political continuum even before Elon Musk began to fret about free speech in the United Kingdom. Just as Britain caught the diversity, equity, and inclusion virus from the United States, it’s now getting the cure, though it has some nasty side effects.

First, though, let me try to give you a sense of the importance of the Oxford Union, a debating society founded 200 years ago by undergraduates. Although you generally have to be an Oxford student to join, it’s institutionally separate from the university and is managed as a private club.