Running Repairs
Run for your life
Nick Cohen says the new normal must be built for people, not cars
Fun runs don’t exist
Nick Cohen won’t be happy until he doesn’t enjoy his daily ordeal
A stroll in the park
Nick Cohen loves the weekly run that insists it’s not a race
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
Reclaim the streets
Too many of our town centres have become hollowed-out, windswept deserts. But if we make them fit for people, they will return
Is New Noma really a world beater?
A top-rated restaurants leaves a nasty taste
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough
Dishonest Abe
He is revered as the man who freed US slaves. Yet he never intended to do so and it was he who forced a war for the Union
Twitter trolls disprove the myth of intrinsic goodness
Virtual reality is real enough to show man in his “natural” state