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 mercenaries who fight for Britain
- 27 January 2003
Even the military has turned to the private sector for help - from companies that are guilty of everything from financial chicanery to covering up rape. Nick Cohen reports
Politics
Gambling with our future
- 13 January 2003
Casinos wherever you want them; fruit machines that you can play on credit in the hope they will spit out a small fortune. Nick Cohen on how new Labour sold out to the gaming industry
Politics
How Blair put 30,000 more in jail
- 16 December 2002
Nick Cohen traces the Prime Minister's long march to the right on crime - a journey that he began as home affairs spokesman nearly a decade ago
Politics
National parks, state schools and hospitals, laws against pollution: all could be under threat from the World Trade Organisation
- 02 December 2002
Nick Cohen reveals the astonishing details of how a little-noticed international agreement could undermine the basis of the welfare state
Politics
Just like his pal Silvio
- 18 November 2002
Tony Blair, assisted by a posse of unelected advisers, propaganda paid for by our taxes, and a subservient civil service, is building a one-party state, a la Berlusconi
Society
Which one of these men would you vote for?
- 04 November 2002
On the left, David Blunkett, Labour Home Secretary. On the right, Oliver Letwin, his Tory shadow. But should their positions be reversed? Nick Cohen confronts a shocking truth
World Affairs
Can't regulate, won't regulate
- 21 October 2002
Governments say they are powerless to control big business in an age of electronic dealing and global markets. Rubbish, argues Nick Cohen. Technology makes it easier than ever
Politics
How gunboats can beat the refugees
- 07 October 2002
European leaders want to copy Australia's policy for keeping out asylum-seekers: armed force, mass expulsions and bribes to poor nations to take them
Politics
Primitive, illiterate and untutored?
- 23 September 2002
The Kurds ought to be one of the left's great causes. But opponents of war, who say Saddam's fall would bring chaos, just echo old imperialist attitudes
Politics
Let us now praise President Bush
- 09 September 2002
A new American law would stop companies defrauding pensioners. But Blair is lobbying Washington for UK companies to be exempt. He is being ignored
