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
Best muckers
The tensions of sharing a plot
The Sunak family firm
Being the wealthiest man in parliament hasn’t damaged Rishi’s image yet, but that may now change
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
Can Ncuti Gatwa save a tired franchise?
The new Dr Who is timely, not tokenistic
The power of the pageant
Our enchanted, sometimes absurd, monarchy is one of the last focuses of common cultural experience
Poland was and is right about Russia
Opposing Putin isn’t hawkish, just realistic
A bird-lover’s lament
Patrick Galbraith’s debut offers a quirkily enjoyable journey through a netherworldly Britain
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 7 & 9 (Hallé)
VW will never catch on beyond Anglophiles — ask not the reason why
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
Who is feminism for?
A controversial new book argues that gender-critical feminism is bigger than the trans debate
The Chronicles of Borisland
A magical land where it is always summer and nobody ever has to resign