Nick Cohen 
News International: will one more scandal be enough?
At the start of the phone hacking scandal, I was sceptical that News International’s pursuers would get far. There is an omerta on Fleet Street. Reporters do not blab about… Continue reading
12 CommentsTunisia? Tunisia! Who would have thunked it!
I’ve a piece in the Jewish Chronicle about how there was a great story in Tunisia that no one reported. As I say, ‘Every morning I read The Times, the… Continue reading
16 CommentsThe American Right’s Problem
I never thought I would write this but Sarah Palin had a point when she said that she was a victim of a “blood libel”. The Left has gone wild… Continue reading
36 Comments‘Far-left’ and ‘far-right’: distinctions without differences
In my Observer column today, I talk about the growing repression in Hungary and my dislike of the terms “far right” and “far left”. Look for divergences between them and… Continue reading
26 CommentsReformers for the Ancien Regime
Over on Coffee House my colleague Dan Hodges notes that a large chunk of the Parliamentary Labour Party has come out against AV, and speculates that their stand will help… Continue reading
20 CommentsMichael and Me
I have had an email from someone called webguy @ michaelmoore.com – who may be the great propagandist himself or perhaps one of his "people" – saying that the US… Continue reading
13 CommentsMichael Moore: Stupid White Man
An elderly and very left wing friend told me a couple of years ago that he was delighted to be visiting Cuba for the first time. “Be careful,” I said,… Continue reading
38 CommentsLucky Sweden?
A repulsive feature of contemporary left-wing thinking is its insistence that clerical fascists should dictate our foreign policy. After the 7/7 attacks on London, Robert Fisk lambasted Tony Blair for… Continue reading
22 CommentsThe Death of Gentlemanly Government
It seems like only yesterday that conservative pundits were denouncing MPs for “destroying trust” with their fraudulent expense claims and writing books exposing New Labour deceitful spin with such stirring… Continue reading
21 CommentsThe Illiberal Democrats
I would be taking high-mindedness too far if I were to say that the press is missing the real point of the Mike Hancock story. I cannot blame editors for… Continue reading
16 CommentsThe official indulgence of Islamism in East London
Imagine that the British National Party controls a church and community centre in the East End of London. Imagine that it receives respectful visits from politicians, and grants from local… Continue reading
39 CommentsWhy the poor loathe the Coalition
Conservative readers still don’t understand why the Coalition is hated in the poor areas of Britain. They would grasp the loathing better if they went back through the arguments they… Continue reading
34 CommentsThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which
All right-thinking people regard David Abraham, the chief executive of Channel 4, as being morally superior to Dawn Neesom, the editor of the Daily Star. By modern standards, Channel 4… Continue reading
15 CommentsLabour’s problem with the media
On the Today programme this morning an incredulous John Humprhys could not believe Ed Miliband’s suggestion that the “squeezed middle” consisted of people earning a bit above or a bit… Continue reading
17 CommentsPolitical Correctness (Not Nearly Mad Enough)
The decision of the United Nations last week to exclude gays from a special resolution condemning extrajudicial, arbitrary and summary executions did not receive the attention it deserved. The United… Continue reading
13 CommentsNick Clegg and the Jilted Bride
The Lib Dem press office is one of the sorriest sights in Westminster. A handful of untrained party officers are dealing with a wave of hostility nothing in their right-thinking,… Continue reading
33 CommentsGood Afternoon
This is my first post for the Spectator. In the coming months I hope to be writing about the fight for liberal and democratic values in Britain – don’t worry… Continue reading
24 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
