Nick Cohen 
The New Statesman: The Toadies’ Gazette
Here we go again. According to the surprisingly reliable Gudio Fawkes, the New Statesman has forced Dan Hodges, a lively young writer, whom you actually want to read, to resign… Continue reading
22 CommentsObama and Miliband
I apologise for the advertisement, but there is a piece in the Observer that is well worth reading. Michael Cohen describes how Obama has tired of offering the hand of… Continue reading
8 CommentsChris Patten: a big disappointment all round
Chris Patten has held almost every great and good job the great and the good can offer: Governor of Hong Kong, Companion of Honour, European Commissioner, Chancellor of the University… Continue reading
22 CommentsLabour is caught on a fork
Listen to John Prescott on the Today programme this morning and you may begin to understand the complexity of the task Labour faces. Prescott was putting the best gloss he… Continue reading
47 CommentsNovelists can be shits (and may be the better for it)
Writers of my generation are comparing the BBC’s version of Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy – the highpoint of the golden age of British television drama in my view – against… Continue reading
8 CommentsFrom the archives: Is that you, Johann Hari?
Today, Johann Hari admitted to vandalising his enemies’ Wikipedia entries using the psydonym David Rose. One of his victims, the writer and Spectator blogger Nick Cohen, suspected so all along. His… Continue reading
34 CommentsLabour must make up for its failure on banking
It is a sign of how serious economic thought disappeared in the bubble – "who needs it when we’re all making money?" – that public opinion is not pummelling Labour… Continue reading
15 CommentsIn praise of Gordon Brown, being the first part of a one-part series
All politicians require a thick skin, but Gordon Brown must have an elephant’s hide. If an ordinary man had presided over the greatest crash since 1929, shame would compel silence.… Continue reading
25 CommentsConspiracy theories kill
Andrew Neather of the Evening Standard was — and, for all I know, still is — a decent man. Although he worked as a speech writer for Jack Straw around… Continue reading
95 CommentsSpeaking for Britain
Spectator readers are not going to like this, so I will keep short. Ed Milliband spoke for Britain last week, when he became the first senior politician in living memory… Continue reading
55 CommentsPimping the press
Why, I hear you ask, did the editors of the New Statesman and Independent do nothing about Johann Hari? Private Eye and many others had been raising killer questions about… Continue reading
23 CommentsThe crisis: left, right and centre
Whoever first came up with the saying, “the left won the culture war, the right won the economic war and the centre won the political war,” deserves some kind of… Continue reading
22 CommentsA Crooke from the Establishment
The American journalist Michael Weiss wrote recently, “Tony Blair can’t be a war criminal. If he were, George Galloway would support him.” The joke works on the assumption that the… Continue reading
42 CommentsMemo to Mr CTB esq. (Strictly confidential)
Dear Mr CTB, We often say that the best advice a solicitor can give a client is to tell them when to back off from a confrontation. The time has… Continue reading
8 CommentsRape and the French elite
Bernard-Henri Levy begins his polemic on the alleged rape of a hotel chambermaid by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, with a priceless example of what a better French philosopher called “bad faith”. ‘I… Continue reading
19 CommentsGreedy Tories
Liberal Democrat fury at the behaviour of the prime minister is all over this morning’s papers. They are not just blustering because they lost the referendum – although, obviously, there… Continue reading
20 CommentsThe Patriotic Case for Republicanism
I have a piece in Time on why British republicans are the true patriots. Here’s a taster: "If you doubt the patriotism of British republicanism, consider trying to explain to… Continue reading
57 CommentsLibya and the shattering of European illusions
I have a piece in the Norwegian daily VG about how the Libyan war is destroying old certainties. I point out that although: "Den europeiske liberale middelklassens illusjoner ødelegges av… Continue reading
32 CommentsChanging my mind on AV
One should never be too prissy about political campaigns. But even when the usual excuses about the “rough and tumble of politics” have been trotted out, the argument about AV… Continue reading
29 CommentsOn not understanding Tories (2)
Being the second in an occasional series. Part one is available here. Let me see if I can get this straight. The British Conservative Party has not won a general… Continue reading
29 Commentsarticles
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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
