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
Scheherazade scoops the pot
Women now dominate the literary landscape
Contemporary writing with a twist and a tug
In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story
Poop poop purchases
Thomas Woodham-Smith goes shopping for the dealer’s friend, a whale on wheels
Summer ‘drille
Hannah Betts chooses floaty frocks and espadrilles
Pain in the neck
How did a violent male manage to sneak into a female space?
Pensions or the planet?
Fund managers are torn between maximising clients’ savings and saving the Earth
Writing bigly
Jordan Peterson’s trouble with his publisher will look mild when compared with Donald Trump’s impending book
Freedom is fruitless
Young people have suffered enough — don’t force them to have vaccine passports to do the things they enjoy
There’s more to the Chris Chan case
How this story is bigger than “trans activist does another awful thing”
The decline of the quality press
Frequent hyperbole means the media would struggle to describe a genuine disaster