It is time that the population awoke from the ‘woke' philosophy that is presently controlling the country with the approval of Government, ethnic groups and the media.

Identity politics is running rampant in its most insidious form in much of the media and so has enabled specific groups to use race, gender and/or sexual orientation to promote their group's aspirations without regard for the rights of individuals or society as a whole.

The main media press has become a haven for ‘wokeness'.

The Herald regularly provides opinion pieces by feminist, ethnic and homosexual individuals to labour their grievances and report on considered social injustices while it does not publish those with contrary opinions. Is this this how free speech is regarded by the print media in a democracy?

B Johnson, Omokoroa.