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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The punishment boom
- 05 March 2001
Nick Cohenfollows Tony Blair to prison and finds him determined to be the first prime minister to go into an election promising more convicts
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Not spinning, but drowning
- 19 February 2001
Politicians and their media advisers are usually blamed for the voters' apathy. But are the political journalists to blame, too? Nick Cohen reports
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Guess who's going to Dubbya's party . . .
- 22 January 2001
The US Presidency - Guess who's going to Dubbya's party . . . but they'd have been there for Gore, too. Nick Cohenon the energy conglomerate that just loves politicians
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Star Wars in their eyes
- 08 January 2001
Will Tony Blair resist attempts to put Yorkshire in the front line of a new US defence system? Or will it be left to the locals? Nick Cohen reports
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Frankly, I don't give a damn
- 18 December 2000
Voter turnout is at an all-time low, but don't blame it on apathy. The electorate has turned cynical, and that is quite a different matter
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They may listen, but they won't tell
- 04 December 2000
Freedom of information? Ministers will go to any lengths even to avoid answering MPs' questions, reports Nick Cohen
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The Holocaust as show business
- 20 November 2000
Nick Cohen argues that politicians and artists have drained Nazi genocide of meaning and turned it into a banal cause celebre
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Let's kill half the lawyers
- 06 November 2000
From the PM downwards, this is a government dominated by the legal profession. So why is it so keen to attack ancient liberties?
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Up for grabs: £3.5m of Stalin's gold
- 23 October 2000
You may think the Communist Party and its heirs of no importance. But their wealth could still have a profound political influence. Nick Cohenreports
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A jailbreak out of an Ealing comedy
- 09 October 2000
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Pat Pottle, one of the duo who sprang the Soviet spy George Blake from prison, died last weekend. Nick Cohen recalls his extraordinary story
