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
Sinicizing the CCP
Xi Jinping’s cynical use of Confucius
De-Goulding: an incomplete coda
Part two of Mahan Esfahani’s deconstruction of the modern association of pianist Glenn Gould with Bach’s Goldberg Variations
The rise of the panic masters
Why today’s graduates want to stay at university forever
Labour of love?
A year in the life of a “TERF” Labour Party Women’s Officer
People of class?
Enough with the inequalities Olympics
New stories from a very old city
A history as brilliantly labyrinthine as the city it describes
In defence of the Netflix Persuasion
It is a satire of modern vanities, not a screw-up
Share the power
Why we need more direct democracy
The gendrification of Ireland
How gender identity theory has become embedded in Irish society
Pärt, Poulenc, Stravinsky (BR Klassik)
This is a brilliant concert of three sacred works
Ethics men
Opera directors are utilising programme books to purvey their moral and ethical wisdom