Running Repairs
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
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
Gulliver’s travails
Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift
All the news fit to post, two weeks early
It’s Christmas come early for Critic readers
End of the fiesta?
Christopher North worries that lockdown has caused an extinction-level crisis
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 5th symphony/Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (Hyperion)
Symphonies to give you hope and vision
Why didn’t Greece slide towards the far right?
Greece survived the world’s worst post-2008 economic crisis and the heaviest refugee burden without yielding to far-right populism. Why?
Doggy style
Bestialists, radical agriculturalists and fashionable intellectuals will enjoy this book, especially the pictures
Edward Elgar: Partsongs, From the Bavarian Highlands (BR Klassik)
The Bavarian Radio singers’ command of English will have to improve when Sir Simon Rattle arrives to take over
Prokofiev/Miaskovsky: Symphonies (LAWO Classics)
Norman Leberecht laments not being able to give the Oslo Philharmonic the five stars they deserve
Ofcom threatens diversity of opinion
Is it actually the function of our cultural institutions to reflect society as divided into arbitrary interest groups; and, even so, is it any business of the state, acting through Ofcom?
How detached will Northern Ireland be from Brexit Britain?
Despite agreement in the Joint Committee, the disruption to trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland remains considerable