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
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
Michael Gove’s convenient conversion won’t be enough
Britain’s economic dysfunction runs very deep indeed
The Irish should reject the new hate speech bill
It threatens free speech while offering dubious benefits for society
Less will be better
More students have been worse. Some became dons — they have been worse too
A Labour of unrequited love
It will take more than vague apologetic gestures to redeem the Labour Party
Renewing academia
The Centre for Heterodox Social Science represents a positive alternative to a field increasingly dominated by progressive ideology
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The truth about sex
No amount of clever-clever language games can obscure basic biological facts
