Taking the Knee
Knees-up
England footballers don’t own the meaning of their pre-match gesture
He won’t take the knee
Has Robert Peel been reincarnated as the Chief Constable for Manchester?
Spellcheckers go woke
Countryside is racist, McDonalds transvestites, taking the knee rebels and Nazis can’t be attractive
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
Has Israel walked into a forever war?
A brutal conflict seems unlikely to be winnable any time soon
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
In memory of Lord Cormack
Britain has lost a wise and dedicated public servant
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Man of letters: reading between the lines
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters by Andrew Stauffer
Hollowed-out Humanities
The tyranny of DEI, the canard of “decolonisation” and the rise of the bureaucrats
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
Singers have a voice, too
Study of the Western canon is often reduced to a politicised debate: power and patronage versus individual genius. The truth is far more complex
What Britain should learn from Singaporean healthcare
How Singapore spends less and sees better outcomes
