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
Nico Muhly: Stranger (AVIE)
This new album of three works offers quiet empathy more than overwhelming emotion
This septic isle
Malta is not a trans utopia
Do we need a trade deal with the US?
Now is the time for the UK to reassess priorities
Burying Caesar
The House of Commons must restore its legitimacy
Tanks a lot
“War is the original human state,” Russian directors seem to say
It’s grim up north
Is the Northman alt-right propaganda? Perhaps, but it’s not the only one
Professor Barry Mole: Scholarly Obsessive
Some things should stay buried
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the end of time (OUR)
Messiaen’s quartet, first performed in a freezing barracks in 1941, is a thing of great beauty
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
Labour’s lost cause
Despite recent successes, the party is still leaving working class voters behind
This is not the time to appease Iran
Iranians are risking their lives to bring down their theocratic regime