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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World Affairs
Free and singular
- 02 October 2006
God Won't Save America: psychosis of a nation
George Walden Gibson Square, 302pp, £16.99
ISBN 190393379X
Politics
Blairism: an apology
- 18 September 2006
Many on the left see Tony Blair as an aberration, a cuckoo in their nest, writes Nick Cohen, who used to think that way. This is a mistake: the government is far more old Labour than you might think
Politics
Six months to save Labour
- 26 June 2006
The government looks doomed, and it may even be heading for its own May 1997-style catastrophe. If the left wants to save it, it needs to start answering some tough questions
Politics
Where has all the money gone?
- 15 May 2006
The left demanded more cash for public services. New Labour provided it. The problem is that only the consultants are making any significant gains. Nick Cohen investigates
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Thatcherism's triumph was double-edged. Union militancy pushed large sections of the middle class to the right. Now unions threaten no one and the main threat to middle-class interests comes from the rich'
- 20 March 2006
The divide is deepening in Britain between those who are told they are affluent and those who really are. Nick Cohen points to a society in which, thanks to this government, only the super-rich feel truly at ease
Politics
''We're from the Tory party and we've come to help''
- 27 February 2006
Like a romantic hero, David Cameron has swept some unlikely political maidens off their feet. They now include the bleeding-hearted workers for modish causes
Society
What did the squatters do for us?
- 23 January 2006
Their primal-screaming, Trotskyist, free-love solution to a 1970s housing problem has a message for the modern era of soaring property prices
Politics
Traitors to the left
- 12 December 2005
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is tying itself in knots with its position on Iran. Stick to anti-fascist principles, advises Nick Cohen - even if that means agreeing with Bush
Ideas
A very un-English practice
- 07 November 2005
Torture is alien to our tradition, and evidence extracted by its use should never be accepted, argues Nick Cohen
