Pleasure and pain
Nick Cohen says the runner’s hardest task is knowing when to stop
Marathon maniac
Nick Cohen ran and ran and did himself no good in the process
Pumping irony
Nick Cohen says you don’t need to join a gym to get fit
Walk, don’t run
‘If I can get them walking the editors and staff of The Critic will be demonstrating with Extinction Rebellion in six months’
How to go from drunk to hunk
I turned myself from a wine-sodden, desk bound, muscleless lard mountain into a reasonably fit person. And you can too
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Why are we ignoring the slaughter in Sudan?
There is no excuse for indifference when we pay such close attention to other wars
Criminal damage remains criminal
A new judgment has challenged a convoluted legal defence of property damage
Dylan Mulvaney did not share our girlhood
His bizarre parody of the female experience is grossly offensive
Of course women support women
Men are angry about where women’s money is going? What’s new?
Who are universities for?
Research is important — but serving the needs and desires of students matters more
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
The true lie of the land
Landowners are reviled as enemies of the environment by the Jacobins of the green movement but these Poundland Robespierres are simply blinded by prejudice
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
When classicists attack classics
Sanskrit isn’t the only ancient language to be affected by academic imperialism
