Congratulations must be extended to the organisers of this year’s Sydney Writers Festival. While a perusal of the 2023 program reveals the usual assortment of lefty progressives peddling a pastiche of post-colonial theory, queer theory, critical race theory, identity politics and climate change, this time around the organisers have managed to conjure up a speaker so woke that he makes the rest of the line up look like MAGA attendees at a Trump rally.