Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen is an author, columnist and signatory of the Euston Manifesto. As well as writing for the New Statesman he contributes to the Observer and other publications including the New Humanist. His books include Pretty Straight Guys – a history of Britain under Tony Blair.
Articles by Nick Cohen
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Politics
The hero they tried to muzzle
- 11 February 2002
There's still life in the local press, fighting injustices and wrongdoings. But the papers' big conglomerate owners do their best to stamp it out
Politics
Time to bite back?
- 28 January 2002
Other countries got something in return for backing Bush. The UK just carries on as America's poodle
Politics
Why it is right to be anti-American
- 14 January 2002
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Conservatives used to be the ones who hated the US; the left looked to it for inspiration. All that has changed - and justifiably, argues Nick Cohen
Society
The New Statesman Profile - Robert Kilroy-Silk
- 17 December 2001
Our Man of the Year is a super-rich celeb who claims to know what the people want: the transient fame of a public confession. Robert Kilroy-Silk profiled
Politics
Who needs 12 when one will do?
- 03 December 2001
Trial by jury was once described as "the lamp that shows that freedom lives". But now, reveals Nick Cohen, the government plans to end two-thirds of all jury trials
Politics
And now the trouble really begins
- 19 November 2001
Victory? Maybe, but the humanitarian disaster continues. That's why, even in Totnes, protests go on
Politics
America's ambassador to the world
- 29 October 2001
Tony Blair is waging a one-man war, ignoring both the cabinet and the Foreign Office in order to prove his unflagging support for George Bush
Politics
Make the computers work first!
- 01 October 2001
War on Terror: Civil Liberties - Anti-terrorist laws nearly always scoop up the innocent and the harmless. Nick Cohen argues that there are simpler ways to improve our security
Politics
It's the rich wot get the blame
- 03 September 2001
Chaucer, Jane Austen, Martin Amis: all show capitalists as greedy and wicked. Aggrieved business leaders want a rewrite. Nick Cohen is unsympathetic
Politics
Do you speak New Labour?
- 20 August 2001
Nick Cohen discovers a little-known pamphlet published by Jessica Mitford in 1956 and finds a little updating helps him understand politicians today
