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‘Over samosas and pakoras and three different kinds of green chilli chutney, she spoke to us about politics.’
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‘Feelings can be very obscure but numbers never lie.’
Kevin Brazil on metrics, obsession and fitness.
‘An intense workout is an ecstasy of punishment packaged as self-improvement.’
Mary Wellesley on exercise, ritual and Barry’s Bootcamp.
‘I was not good at sports because I would not do sports because I did not have the body for sports because I would not do sports.’
Saba Sams on girlhood, embodiment and avoiding sports.
‘Following United rarely brings me any great joy and most often it depresses me. If I could disengage, I would.’
Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United.
‘I deployed my body against an opponent like a blunt and effective instrument.’
John Patrick McHugh on playing Gaelic football.
Kamran Nazeer is a contributing editor at Prospect. Born of Pakistani parents, he has lived in New York, Islamabad and Glasgow. His first book is Send In the Idiots: Or How We Grew to Understand the World (Bloomsbury).
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‘His poetry sliced through the gender binary and left it gasping on the floor.’
Katherine Rundell on John Donne.
‘Up on the light box on the wall are the scans of Gary’s brain, bone white standing out against smoked grey.’
John Niven remembers the last days of his brother, Gary.
‘It’s a story that happens to you once and then lives with you forever.’
An excerpt from Vagabonds! by Eloghosa Osunde.
‘Another spring, another sequel.’
A poem by Sasha Debevec-McKenney.
‘In the black fog of her grief, Anna Kraft received an invitation.’
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