As we approach Christmas after this most challenging of years, families are looking forward to a precious bit of downtime; some welcome — if short-lived — respite from the horrors of the pandemic.
But for one family, the festive cheer will be somewhat muted. Will and Rachel Knowland, together with their five children ranging in ages from 14 to a still breastfeeding ten-month-old, are about to be evicted from their home in the grounds of Britain's most famous public school. And all, they claim, for daring to stand up for free speech.
Will Knowland is the Eton English teacher fired for refusing to remove a lecture entitled 'The Patriarchy Paradox' from his YouTube channel, in which he questions 'current radical feminist orthodoxy' and rails against erosion of male identity and traditional gender roles.