Running Repairs
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
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’
Vox Populi, Vox Dei
Disbanding Sheffield Cathedral’s choir shows how the Church of England is losing its voice
Protect veterans from vindictive prosecutions
The Overseas Operations Bill may prove Britain’s breaking point with the ECHR
Making sense of evil
Forced to flee her native Germany, Hannah Arendt is finally celebrated there in a major exhibition
Why is Tony Abbott such a hate figure?
Tony Abbott wants to tilt post-Brexit Britain towards the Trans-Pacific Partnership
America’s Popish Plot
The maze of lunacy surrounding one of the USA’s most outlandish conspiracy theories
Streaming Daniel Kitson
The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church explores the possibility of human connection
The BLM takeover of Whitehall
Why don’t ministers care about the politics of their civil servants?
The celebrification of children’s literature
Children’s book publishing needs to take a step away from celebrities
Why is Britain good at R&D but has so few major tech companies?
Mike Lynch offers his solutions – from ARM to post-Brexit regulation
Go on, go to seed
Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson