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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Society
The Bank borrows an idea - from Enron
- 24 October 2005
After the Treasury, now the Bank of England is embracing the oil firm's dodgy methods. That's very bad news
Ideas
NS Essay - 'Anti-Semitism isn't a local side effect of a dirty war over a patch of land smaller than Wales. It's everywhere from Malaysia to Morocco, and it has arrived here'
- 10 October 2005
If you challenge liberal orthodoxy, your argument cannot be debated on its merits. You have to be in the pay of global media moguls. You have to be a Jew
Politics
The state should stop playing God
- 19 September 2005
Our pious government wants faith-based bodies to run our schools and provide our welfare services, and justifies this by pretending Britain is a religious country. But it isn't
Economy
Does Mr Big really know what we want to read?
- 22 August 2005
The literati's favourite bookshop is going downmarket. But if supermarkets can sell Harry Potter cheaper, it might turn out to be a grave commercial error
Politics
The birth of Blameron
- 08 August 2005
A mere boy who went to Eton is standing for the leadership of his party on a ticket of "Tory modernism". Nick Cohen can't spot the difference from Tony Blair's old flannel
UK Politics
Falling foul of the techno-trap
- 01 August 2005
When it comes to fighting crime, technology can hinder more than it helps, insists Nick Cohen
Politics
When extreme opinions become intolerable
- 25 July 2005
Terror and the UK - Karl Marx was allowed to live here despite his inflammatory ideas, but the British welcome has much stricter limits today. Nick Cohen on the difference that bloodshed can make
Society
We all have personality disorders now
- 11 July 2005
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If you're happy or sad, neat or messy, outgoing or withdrawn, you've got a symptom. Nick Cohen argues that psychiatry has expanded by pathologising everyday life
Ideas
NS Essay - 'We have a softened Thatcherism in public life, combined with a pretence that 1980s values have been overthrown. It's having it both ways. It's living in sin'
- 20 June 2005
No one could deny that the Conservatives lost the culture war - just look at the hatred our novelists heap upon their ruthless, privatising Tory villains, even after all these years. And yet nobody is asking to have the pre-Thatcher world back
