Running
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
The gang of four
Remembering a classic British race
Man with the van
Thomas Woodham-Smith on the trade’s true mavericks
The end of the road
Nick Cohen has adopted a new workout: wrestling with a novel
The talk of the track
Nick Cohen compiles a phrase book for neophyte runners
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
Reading humbly
Approaching texts with love, patience and humility can reveal more than scepticism
Invasion literature
It couldn’t happen here. Right?
Blogosphere bubble
Reviving a simple English classic: bubble and squeak
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Towards a shared Englishness
There is a third way between civic nationalism and ethno-nationalism
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Cultural appropriation is here to stay
So-called cultural appropriation is an American obsession, cheerfully ignored by a fast globalising world
The election is still Trump’s to lose
His performance has been weak but his advantages are many
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
