Pretentious b**t**ds.
If they really wanted you to understand what they were talking about they wouldn't have used an obscure British slang term like "cockwomble".
Cockwombles) (Britain, slang, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person."
“If they really wanted you to understand what they were talking about they wouldn’t have used an obscure British slang term like “cockwomble”.”
When it comes to reading a Mark Steyn column, it’s a feature, not a bug, IMO. His writing is not for the linguistically-incurious nor those who managed to arrive in 2018 without an effective search engine. Sorry it’s so unnerving for you...