Exercise
The fit and famous
To strive, to struggle, to sweat, is to be human
Glorious mud
Nick Cohen is badly bitten by the cross-country bug
The Gentleman’s Marathon
ASH Smyth recounts his one experience of ‘running’ 26.2 miles
Training for nothing
Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions
Fun runs don’t exist
Nick Cohen won’t be happy until he doesn’t enjoy his daily ordeal
The BAME killer – why Covid-19 is so serious for ethnic minorities
Is social deprivation the reason, as Sadiq Khan suggests?
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
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
Save us from the menopause mystique
“Menopausal” products make life more rather than less alienating
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The sadness of AI boyfriends
Technology can make romance frictionless and sterile
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
Death on demand?
Euthanasia offers only bad choices to the most vulnerable patients
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
