Spectator Life

‘You can get away from everything,’ said Harold Wilson of the Isles of Scilly, ‘not only in distance but also in time’

The league has no excuse for dodging the political issues of the day

The English game has come back to the English in modern, living form

All roads lead to QAnon

The liberal arts are neither liberal nor artistic in our universities. They are illiberal and imaginatively barren

Our logo is a bald eagle with a baseball clutched improbably in its beak

The populist parent uprising against critical race theory

A school district in California is couching CRT courses under terms like ‘equity’, ‘inclusion’ and ‘diversity’

The Cheesecake Factory is what a fashionable French writer would create in a novel if he needed a restaurant to embody American food excesses

Gibraltar is no longer a colonial outpost. It feels modern, cosmopolitan

As the milk and sugar of summer, seersucker is best enjoyed full gulp

Some young people would prefer to be nurtured than respected

Parents squabble over pronouns and critical race theory in America’s richest county

Crying mental health and running away is ungracious as well as infuriating

Keith McNally dines out on Graydon Carter

The 1619 Project curator is a shambles: she was made for academia

You name it, you can — and for some reason people always do — put onion in it