AS a rural pastime, choosing to wander about in forests dressed in long white garb, wearing antlers and carrying wands has never appealed to Agromenes. However, this week, he has discovered that paganism is not only odd, but woke. It appears from recent events that no person is allowed to hobnob within the British Druid Order, nor in other constituent parts of the Pagan Federation, if they are deemed by the witchcraft police to be transphobic. This means that, should a witch support the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the meaning of the word ‘woman’, she would be excluded from the community.
As a result, recently, second-generation witch Angela Howard, ‘knighted’ two years ago at Stonehenge as a ‘Warrior Princess’, incurred such official censure. She argued, on Facebook, against the…