By The Daily Elemental – June 2025
So Piers Morgan has declared that “Woke is Dead.”
How noble of him. How timely. How utterly predictable.
A man with one foot in every empire, one finger to the wind, and two phones on speed dial to Murdoch’s lieutenants now takes it upon himself to officiate the burial of a beast whose fangs he once gleefully sharpened.
Let’s be clear: Piers Morgan is not the man to declare woke dead.
He is not the butcher, nor the coroner.
He is the salesman who helped fit the mask on its face and then stood back and scolded anyone who dared question the fitting.
🧼 The COVID-Era Inquisitor
Let us revisit the era of plague and panic—the COVID years—when the Woke Mind Virus wasn’t dying, but thriving. And what was Morgan then?
A fire-breathing scold.
A schoolmaster wagging his finger from behind a primetime pulpit.
The snarling voice of moral outrage when a civilian dared to walk on a beach or question the wisdom of lockdown decrees from unelected bureaucrats.
Piers Morgan was not a dissident.
He was not a seeker of nuance.
He was not an advocate of the sceptical minority.
He was the high priest of the mainstream.
He was the shame-slinger-in-chief.
He was woke with a blazer on—not the rainbow-haired activist version, no—but the elite-approved version. The type that gets invited to Davos, dines with politicians, and then thunders on Twitter about saving lives while posting selfies from sunlit terraces.
If Woke is a culture of performative outrage, moral blackmail, and enforced consensus, then Piers Morgan was its middle-aged male mascot during COVID.
He may not have carried a flag. But he carried the script.
🗣️ “Free Speech” With a Muzzle
In recent years, Piers has attempted a pivot: claiming he stands for free speech. His show Uncensored is marketed like a battlefield of ideas—but time and again, Morgan proves he doesn’t understand the principle he pretends to defend.
Free speech, he says… but not “freedom from consequences.”
Free speech, he says… but not “a right to be heard.”
Free speech, he says… but you can’t “shout fire in a crowded theatre.”
Let’s pause there.
That tired old “theatre fire” trope has been legally and historically debunked more times than the Bat Signal. It was first invoked to justify imprisoning a man who dared to oppose World War I. And it’s still wheeled out by the faux-defenders of liberty who want speech on a leash—tight, retractable, and yanked at their convenience.
What Morgan supports is not free speech.
It’s curated speech.
Speech with sponsors. Speech with limits. Speech that questions everyone except the empire that once employed him.
🔫 Guns, America, and the Smug Brit Routine
On the topic of firearms, Piers transforms from smug liberal to full-blown sanctimonious zealot.
He treats the U.S. Second Amendment as a disease. He dismisses lawful gun owners en masse. He’s less interested in the cultural or constitutional arguments than in grandstanding over corpses before the police have even zipped the body bags.
He never seeks to understand the American frontier psychology, the historical distrust of centralized power, or the rural reality that sometimes no one else is coming. For Morgan, it’s always “blame the gun,” never the failed state, the broken community, or the destroyed culture.
He’ll moralize over every American shooting with polished rhetoric—
But when European violence breaks out, as it tragically did in Austria this very week, the silence is deafening. No high horse. No panel debate. Just convenient amnesia.
🤡 The Weathercock on a Throne of Ash
Many have called him a weathercock—spinning with the breeze. But even that is too kind.
Changing your mind through experience is honourable.
Changing it because the polls shifted? Because the comments section turned sour? Because it’s profitable?
That’s cowardice dressed as evolution.
Morgan’s career has followed the pattern of a gatekeeper disguised as a rebel.
Every time the Overton Window shifts, he jumps to the edge of it, acting like he kicked it open. In truth, he’s dragged there by public momentum, claiming the lead while licking the boots of the system just enough to keep his access intact.
His independence is as performative as his outrage.
He might no longer bear an ITV badge or a Daily Mail column, but the network never left him. His Rolodex is still warm. His cues still come from the same circles of power that kept him in play through scandal after scandal.
📺 The Puppet Master of Clickbait Clashes
Yes, his show Uncensored sometimes hosts genuine thinkers and dissidents. But even here, something smells off.
Too often, it devolves into circus.
Guests shout over each other while Piers leans back with a smug grin, like the kid who handed two boys the same love letter just to watch the fallout. It’s not inquiry. It’s not journalism. It’s schadenfreude with a studio budget.
He may book controversial guests. But he rarely challenges the headlines. He rarely, if ever, questions the mainstream line on Day One of a crisis.
He is not a lighthouse in the storm.
He’s the weatherman who only steps outside once it’s sunny.
⚰️ Woke Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Changing Costumes.
And now he writes a book declaring “Woke is Dead.”
What he means is this:
The brand of woke he once championed has become unfashionable.
The movement he echoed during COVID is now embarrassing to admit.
So, like a man ditching last season’s suit, he sets fire to it—and calls himself the arsonist, not the tailor.
But make no mistake:
Piers Morgan is not a post-woke prophet.
He is a creature of the same system that birthed it.
He’ll happily bury Woke—
Right next to Truth, Trust, and Integrity.
All of which he helped euthanize.
Right next to Truth, Trust, and Integrity.
All of which he helped euthanize.
🌀 Elemental Balance
- Air (Mind/Ideology): 40% – Endless rhetoric, shifting arguments, censorship-lite.
- Fire (Will/Conflict): 30% – Loud debates, but lacking conviction; more heat than light.
- Water (Emotion/Compassion): 10% – Feigned care, but little depth.
- Earth (Groundedness/Integrity): 20% – Some good guests and platforming, but no roots, no spine.
The Daily EleMental 
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