Silence of the fans
Nick Cohen says silent sport needs crowds to give it meaning
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
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Starmer’s tax will hurt children
It is not just a tax, it is cruel theft
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Writing lives
The life story of the biography, from Victorian glorification to Bloomsbury boldness to contemporary obliquity
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Cometh the hour, cometh the dealmaker
Trump’s ego might be just what the world needs
The grand Budapest hotel
The Hungarian Prime Minister’s office gives Orbán the space to think
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the forgetting of feminist principles
Single-sex toilets are essential if we are going to respect women’s personal space
The city and its uncertain plot
Despite fascinating thematic material to work with, Murakami still makes it ploddingly dull
