Nick Cohen 
More Niallism: Keynes opposed Versailles because he was a screaming queen
When I heard that Niall Ferguson had said that JM Keynes advocated reckless economic policies because he was gay and childless, and hence had no concern for the future, I… Continue reading
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Simon Singh: Let us now praise a bloody-minded hero
I don’t normally campaign. I’m not a joiner or a natural committee man. But the state of free speech in England pushed me into despair, and three years ago I… Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin meets the Munchkins
Late on Friday my editor at the Observer called and asked me to dash off a few words on what was wrong with the Mail and some Conservative MPs demanding… Continue reading
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Evidence-based politics: the case of the incredible shrinking Tory Party
Here is something those who rely on political commentators will not have expected to see. The latest poll from TNS BMRB has the Tories down to just a quarter of… Continue reading
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Lutfur Rahman: Not a ‘bully’, just ‘sly’ and ‘unappetising’
For the record, I did not accuse Rahman of being a ‘bully,’ as he tells Spectator readers. I accused the Mayor of Tower Hamlets of being ‘sly’ and ‘unappetising’. His… Continue reading
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Twitter: A playground for hysterics, prudes, fools and spies
Another day, another story of the forces of order hounding an innocent citizen for making innocuous remarks on Twitter. This week’s target was Rob Marchant, a centrist Labour supporter, who… Continue reading
27 CommentsLeveson: Don’t be frightened by the state
If David Cameron had any sense, he would stand up in the Commons and say “I am withdrawing the Royal Charter. The law officers have assured me that Lord Justice… Continue reading
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It’s not a press regulator, it’s a web regulator.
Since the early 1990s, hundreds of millions of words have been produced about the Web. Enthusiasts have told us that it is the greatest communications revolution since Guttenberg invented movable… Continue reading
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The Sunday Times jails its source
In a long piece in the last issue of the Sunday Times (£) Isabel Oakeshott, its political editor, wrote of her relationship with Vicky Pryce. She sobbed and sighed. She was… Continue reading
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Sexual abuse: Don’t toe the party line
A scandal broke in the Socialist Workers Party a few weeks ago after a woman member claimed a Trotskyist tribune of the working class had taken time off from promoting… Continue reading
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Arraigning a corpse
Part 1 “Russian Justice” A judge at Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court stopped the trial of Sergei Magnitsky (above) yesterday – but not because the defendant was dead. Magnitsky’s demise was… Continue reading
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The Leather Case
Last year I wrote an unpatriotic column for the Observer. I said that while American literary and journalistic frauds tended to be simple men, who lied and plagiarised to boast… Continue reading
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Lone voices against Terror
I went to the Toynbee Hall, the meeting place for the radical East End, this week to listen to a debate many radicals would rather not hear. British Asian feminists… Continue reading
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Last call for Starbucks. Your flight is about to depart
A friend of mine who has worked in the City all his life, and is by no means a leftist, can still explode with rage at the nom-doms and corporations, who… Continue reading
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David Cameron marries a Rothschild
In the Jewish joke a matchmaker calls on a poor tailor living in a Tsarist shtetl in the middle of nowhere. He tells the old guy that he wants to… Continue reading
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Can’t we even throw out Lynne Featherstone?
I gave a talk to the Hornsey and Wood Green Labour Party last night. If you don’t know the area, the constituency covers Highgate, Muswell Hill and Crouch End: leafy… Continue reading
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The BBC: ‘It’s professional to cheat’
In this morning’s Observer I write about the collapse of the old notions of honour and fair play in sport, banking, politics, journalism, the law and much else. As I… Continue reading
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Scientologists trap us in the closet
Whenever I give lectures on my book on censorship – Whaddya mean you haven’t read it? Buy it here at a recession-beating price – I discuss the great issues of… Continue reading
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A coalition of the complacent
I don’t like to think that I am rich. In theory, I know that in comparison to the vast majority of the world’s population, I am. But perhaps because of… Continue reading
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If they can frame a Chief Whip, they can frame anyone
Lord Denning was perhaps the most beloved judge of the 20th century. He even inspired a Lord Denning Appreciation Society. But I and many others found something sinister behind his… Continue reading
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Leveson: Don’t let the state frighten you
If David Cameron had
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Christopher Hitchens’s lefty publisher begged from him – and then betrayed him
Before the crash of 2007,
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'Murdoch betrays everyone in the end'
My guard goes up when
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Export-only justice
In the last few years
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Whose freedom? Whose press?
A love for freedom of
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Nowhere to hide
Ever since the millennium, I
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Censorship Olympics
The guards would not let
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Web of tyrants
The internet can promote freedom
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Nick Cohen
I looked at it and
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Liberal England dies again
The Lib Dems’ troubles are
