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
Can Labour lose?
- 01 January 2005
2005: General election year - Don't trust the conventional wisdom: that Blair is heading for a third comfortable victory. And don't think you're helping the poor if you decide to vote Lib Dem
Politics
Beware a girl who calls herself Kimberly
- 13 December 2004
New Labour should not have dropped old class prejudices against rich people with fancy names. Then Blunkett and Mandelson might have managed to stay out of trouble
Politics
A child is in mortal danger. This man can tell you where he is, but won't talk. What would you do?
- 29 November 2004
Since the 17th century, Britain has been clear that it is wrong even to threaten suspects with torture or beatings. Nick Cohen asks if a German case could make us change our minds
Society
Daddy will stop at nothing to see you
- 15 November 2004
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Fronted by Batman and purveyors of "flour-power", the fathers' rights movement has struck Britons as benign - but its methods reveal a more sinister side
Politics
The great liberal betrayal
- 01 November 2004
The left, in the form of the Stop the War Coalition, has fallen out even with Iraqi comrades who opposed the war. Why? Because those comrades don't see hostage-takers and decapitators as resistance fighters
World Affairs
Muslim is not a dirty word
- 04 October 2004
When government and the media persist in defining British Muslims by their religion, they turn them into automatic suspects in any case of terrorism
Politics
Why it's right to hate traffic wardens
- 30 August 2004
Good citizens should support a war on illegal parking. But not when enforcement is in the hands of private companies, using dud theories about law and order
World Affairs
Where have all the children of the left gone?
- 16 August 2004
Those who used to burn with anger against oppression and were united in fraternity with the vulnerable are today all too happy to whitewash Saddam's regime and applaud Michael Moore's films
Society
How church schools brainwash children
- 02 August 2004
A candle is lit, the curtains closed and the five-year-olds begin a session of "prayer meditation". This is an English state school in 2004. Nick Cohen reports
Politics
No lies, but catastrophic misjudgements
- 19 July 2004
The Butler report 2 - Those who think the Prime Minister deceived us in order to take us to war have missed the point. His far more serious crime was blundering incompetence
