http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/nick_cohen en http://images.newstatesman.com/users/avatars/nick-cohen.jpg http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/nick_cohen http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/07/barker-housing-build-green http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/07/barker-housing-build-green Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen Why Kate Barker, the bogey woman, who wants to build over the green belt might just create a country worth living in

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2007/06/jones-science-darwin-human http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2007/06/jones-science-darwin-human Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen Darwin had to contend with religious dogma and bad poetry. An illustrious successor is equally frustrated by bad science

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/global-issues/2007/05/oxfam-world-africa-aid-relief http://www.newstatesman.com/global-issues/2007/05/oxfam-world-africa-aid-relief Mon, 28 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen In what circumstances would Oxfam's head choose to speak plainly, even if telling the truth endangered famine relief? Photographs by Nick Dawe

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/04/baggini-england-class http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/04/baggini-england-class Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen In his search for England, Julian Baggini expected to find racism, sexism and fear. He found something much more thought-provoking

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/02/baron-cohen-autism-children http://www.newstatesman.com/life-and-society/2007/02/baron-cohen-autism-children Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen Nick Cohen meets Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge professor of developmental psychopathology.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/02/anti-war-iraq-galloway-liberal http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/02/anti-war-iraq-galloway-liberal Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen In early 2003, the largest co-ordinated protests in history took place against the Iraq war. This, argues Nick Cohen, was a failure of solidarity with the Iraqi people.

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2007/01/oswald-happiness-found http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2007/01/oswald-happiness-found Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen Poets and novelists have often tried to describe happiness. Andrew Oswald has found a way of counting it

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200030 http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200030 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen For Ted Honderich, if you don't give money to Oxfam or the Red Cross, you are killing Africans as surely as if you had deliberately stopped a food convoy reaching a refugee camp

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200610300051 http://www.newstatesman.com/200610300051 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen Murder in Amsterdam: the death of Theo van Gogh and the limits of tolerance Ian Buruma Atlantic Books, 256pp, £12.99 ISBN 1843543192 Power and the Idealists Paul Berman Soft Skull Press, 320pp, £15.99 ISBN 1932360913

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200610160034 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT Nick Cohen His mother was desperate to be respectable, yet here was Jonathan Franzen, breaking every rule his parents held dear

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