What does the cryptic crossword clue "Popular Spectator header: classically everything is being undesirably woke? (8)" mean?

The definition is "undesirably woke". The wordplay uses a charade (building blocks). IN (synonym="popular") + S (synonym="first letter of [leader] Spectator") + OMNIA (synonym="Latin [classically] word for ‘everything’") = INSOMNIA The answer is INSOMNIA.

Popular Spectator header: classically everything is being undesirably woke? (8)

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