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It began, remembers Rachel Knowland, with a Viking raid. Her husband, the sacked Eton English master Will Knowland, had recommended the classic Norse saga The Long Ships to students at the school s Huxley Book Club. He thought its buccaneering young hero Orm Tostesson might fire their teenage imaginations and they d learn some history, geography and anthropology along the way. But Knowland was rapped over the knuckles when a colleague complained, not about the book itself, but about the The New Statesman magazine review he d added to pique their interest. A banquet of adventure by sea and land, with man-size helpings of battle and murder, robbery and rape, it enthused. ....
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. ....
Who can blame these emotionally stunted old boys from defending an indefensible teacher? Eton boys: ‘Unbelievably assured and yet so ordinary.’ Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo Eton boys: ‘Unbelievably assured and yet so ordinary.’ Photograph: Jeff Gilbert/Alamy Stock Photo Sun 13 Dec 2020 03.00 EST ‘An elephant sea cow will cry out in protest if a low-ranking male tries to mate with her, summoning all the males within earshot to come and fight over her.” How like women! Or “human women”, as we are known to Will Knowland, the Eton English teacher who is, notoriously, fighting dismissal for not having taken down when the school requested it his YouTube lecture, “The Patriarchy Paradox”, featuring the above sea cow reference. (The title seems to be lifted from a popular ....