Scrapping for space
Nick Cohen says hamfisted Covid road closures are dividing opinion
Braving the goblet of fire
Nick Cohen salutes J.K. Rowling, whose latest work reflects her burning sense of justice and refusal to take the easy route
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
The shifting sands of British tribal loyalties
Nick Cohen detects a seismic electoral change based on identity, age and education
Health and safety
Nick Cohen says streets must be safe for active lifestyles to flourish
The stab-in-the-back myth
Nick Cohen on the dangerous lie the Corbynite left copied from the Nazis
Run for your life
Nick Cohen says the new normal must be built for people, not cars
Fun runs don’t exist
Nick Cohen won’t be happy until he doesn’t enjoy his daily ordeal
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
Pleasure and pain
Nick Cohen says the runner’s hardest task is knowing when to stop
An extreme form of criticism
Works by Michelangelo, Velázquez, Rodin, Rothko and Mondrian have all been vandalised for reasons of mental instability or political activism or both, informs Michael Prodger
A forgotten poet of the people
The legacy of a left behind war poet
Et tu? The grim fate of the usual suspects
Peter Stothard’s depiction of the demise of Caesar emphasises the humanity of the emperor’s killer
Don’t shut our churches again
The Church is the only place we can find true deliverance from Covid
Eighth Blackbird and Navarra String Quartet
I’m not giving up trying to persuade younger people to listen to new composers
A playwright who aims big
Anne McElvoy on writers and players who can transfer skills to the small screen from the big stage
Fair Cop?
How Stonewall turned the police into political activists
Which gender are you: Neutrois or Two-Spirit?
A brief guide to the British Film Institute’s 22 genders
Shingles and delirium in San Sebastián
Despite Covid-19 rates spiking, it was a dormant virus that caught the author out as he tried to venture through Spain
SHEAR Madness
Taking an Old Hickory switch to the dying academic historical profession