Author: The Guardian

‘I spent a week crying. I’ve never had an injury in my life!’ Why do so many fitness fans end up needing surgery?

From the 47-year-old runner who needs a double hip replacement to the 27-year-old CrossFitter with a ruptured ACL, those who push their bodies too hard often regret it. What are the lessons for the rest of us?Jonathan Price has...

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The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow

The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decisionPeter Swallow is Labour MP for Bracknell, and the chair of the all-party parliamentary group on classics. Before his...

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Reform UK hold press conference on immigration after criticism of pledge to use Navy to stop small boats – politics live

Labour say plan is a ‘desperate attempt to distract from sleaze’ while a retired commander says it ‘lacks substance’Zia Yusuf, Reform’s home affairs spokesperson, described how successive governments failed to bring down the...

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