At some point between drawing a ballot place and crossing a finish line, the London Marathon stops being an ambition and becomes a fact of someone’s life. The alarm at 5:30 on cold January mornings. The long Sunday run that started in the dark and ended in the light. The blisters, the foam roller, the…
On the morning of 23 April 2026, England’s national day arrives as it always does — quietly, without the bank holiday that would make it impossible to miss, without the official fanfare that other nations deploy for their own patron saints. St George’s Day is the English occasion at its most characteristically English: understated in…