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
They are planning to take the piss out of you
- 25 September 2000
If you like a few pints in the evening, beware of the urine test when you clock on next morning, advises Nick Cohen
Society
The New Statesman Profile - IPPR
- 21 August 2000
What real influence does the voice of the centre left and Labour's favourite think-tank wield? The Institute for Public Policy Research profiled byNick Cohen
Books
In the name of God, go. Labour is too eager to prostrate itself before the throne. Nick Cohen on why Britain will never be a true democracy while a monarch reigns
- 07 August 2000
The Republic of Britain: 1760 to the Present
Frank Prochaska Penguin, 293pp, £20
ISBN 0713994541
Books
Back in print
- 31 July 2000
All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren Prion, 438pp, £7.99
ISBN 1853753483
Politics
Victims of zero tolerance
- 24 July 2000
A bitterly fought case in Cambridge highlights how, in the war against drugs, even middle-class charity workers become potential criminals
Politics
A very British judicial inquiry
- 10 July 2000
Why did Customs mess up the biggest British drugs prosecution ever? And why isn't anyone being hung out to dry as a result? Nick Cohenseeks answers
Politics
We made the people-smugglers rich
- 26 June 2000
Behind the Dover stowaway deaths lies a booming business, created by western politicians as surely as bootlegging was created by Prohibition
Politics
Behind closed doors
- 12 June 2000
Direct election of mayors sounds a good idea. Not so, argues Nick Cohen, who detects the start of a new era of council secrecy and unaccountability
Politics
Hacking their way to a fortune
- 22 May 2000
Nick Cohen finds that top journalists, so keen to demand that others reveal their earnings, like to keep quiet about their own £200,000-plus salaries
Politics
The tiny group that controls us all
- 08 May 2000
Nick Cohen pursues new Labour's elite and finds it struggling to understand the country's democratic conventions
