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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Britain’s housing crisis is a crisis for veterans
We have to make the system more able to house our heroes
Why a wealth tax would fail
Wealth taxes have been tested in various countries and have been abandoned for very good reasons
Where are all the ambitious Scots?
Whole sectors were once dominated by Caledonian migrants
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Wit as well as social conscience
Avril Quartet: Claires Obscures (Etcetera)
The EU must change course on energy
European industry is finally standing up to irrational EU climate policies
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
No, rent controls don’t work
Stop toying with failed ideas and build some damn houses
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves