Running Repairs
The end of the road
Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
Justice warriors
Nick Cohen says pounding the streets brings its own rewards
The sin of pride
Nick Cohen blames testosterone for his latest sports injury
Glorious mud
Nick Cohen is badly bitten by the cross-country bug
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
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
Health and safety
Nick Cohen says streets must be safe for active lifestyles to flourish
Run for your life
Nick Cohen says the new normal must be built for people, not cars
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The stress myth
Your emotions are not an illness
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
How to be realistic on Ukraine
There is a route to peace, but it will take compromise
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
Office politics
There’s the joker, the slacker, and the bloke who just got fired
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
