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
The fire that shames Labour and its detention camps policy
- 11 August 2003
Yarl's Wood was built to placate those who believed we were being swamped by asylum-seekers. But when guards at the private prison lost control, the results were catastrophic
Politics
The lesson the left has never learnt
- 21 July 2003
Why is a British socialist group forming a political alliance with repressive, Islamic fundamentalists? Because it really is exceedingly stupid, suggests Nick Cohen
Politics
661 new crimes - and counting
- 07 July 2003
Nick Cohen tots up new Labour's most extraordinary record: the hundreds of fresh reasons it has found for sending people to prison. And there are more to come
Environment
The curse of black gold
- 02 June 2003
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Oil is bad news for a country: far from bringing prosperity, it is the harbinger of poverty, malnutrition and oppressive government. Nick Cohen reveals why
Politics
When Big Brother just can't cope
- 19 May 2003
The Criminal Records Bureau was meant to make us safer by checking the pasts of teachers and social workers. Now it's a multimillion-pound disaster
Politics
The defeat of the left
- 05 May 2003
On Iraq, Blair saw off his opponents, and deserved to do so. Nick Cohen accuses his enemies of hypocrisy and a failure to recall that socialism is the language of priorities
World Affairs
Strange bedfellows
- 07 April 2003
How many of those who marched against the war realised that the protest organiser is an apologist for Stalin? And what would they have said if the Countryside March had been organised by neo-Nazis?
Society
The emotional gluttons against the war
- 24 March 2003
No invasion can be worse for the Iraqis than what they now suffer. The protesters are guilty of the same mass sentimentality that greeted Diana's death
Society
The editor, the murder and the truth
- 10 March 2003
Don Hale and Stephen Downing are the victims of an old police trick: after an injustice has been overturned, put it about that the conviction was right in the first place. By Nick Cohen
Politics
A terrible viciousness is born
- 24 February 2003
Once, refugees were just scroungers. Now, they are also terrorists and plague carriers. As war approaches and migration grows, old British restraints are loosening
