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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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Is the “George R. R. Martin effect” real?
Can we expect a Song of Ice and Fire or a damp squib?
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
We have to tame Big Tech
We must act to regulate social media before it does a lot more damage
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Why we should explore space
Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”
It’s time to scrap SLAPPs
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are stifling debate in Britain