Running Repairs
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
Train lines to nowhere
The farcical naming of new overground lines has exposed the fragility of progressivism
All roads lead to WPATH
How the strange, dark history of the gender movement built our strange, dark modern world
Sugar, sex and sacrifice
It would be foolish to casually abandon Christian ethics of restraint
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Prepare for takeoff
Masters of the Air is a visually impressive aerial WW2 adventure with the potential to go far
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Ironic fascism
Taboo-breaking counterculture paved the way for the return of the very fascism it claimed to subvert
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
Decolonising science
Rewritten histories of science, outdated religious shibboleths and notorious omissions
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
