Nick Cohen
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Britain goes berserk – long read from me and podcast with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social on how Farage could become PM on a tiny share of the vote open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Britain goes berserk
Robert Saunders on the great unravelling
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Britain goes berserk – long read from me and podcast with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social on how Farage could become PM on a tiny share of the vote open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Britain goes berserk – long read from me and podcast with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social on how Farage could become PM on a tiny share of the vote open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Britain goes berserk
Robert Saunders on the great unravelling
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Britain goes berserk – long read from me and podcast with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social on how Farage could become PM on a tiny share of the vote open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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"If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?"
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?
The radical right is also the enemy of journalism
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November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?"
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
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November 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether that’s a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
"If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?"
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?
The radical right is also the enemy of journalism
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?"
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on how, leftish bias at the BBC should never be excused. But nor can we avoid the grim truth that the radical right is now a clear threat to independent journalism in the UK
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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Violence baguettes violence.
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Violence baguettes violence.
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For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.
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If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
She is telling an accurate story of recent history - the triple punch of austerity, Brexit and covid. It's spot on. But it is terribly strange to say it now in government when you were not prepared to say it in opposition.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.
But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment
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“You may think you live an unexceptional, law-abiding life…(but) maybe you engaged in heretical thought crimes on social media which will allow left or right to destroy your life.”
Important piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social
Important piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social
Big tech is showing Trump and corrupt rulers every where that it can help destroy autocracy’s opponents
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The thug-nerd pact will get us in the end
When paranoid fantasies come true
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
“You may think you live an unexceptional, law-abiding life…(but) maybe you engaged in heretical thought crimes on social media which will allow left or right to destroy your life.”
Important piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social
Important piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social
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There are Facebook groups of your average centre-rightish Ukrainian diaspora aunts in Cleveland or Chicago that bounce back and forth between cute cat memes and demands that anyone associated with the Trump regime must be ruthlessly crushed
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
There are Facebook groups of your average centre-rightish Ukrainian diaspora aunts in Cleveland or Chicago that bounce back and forth between cute cat memes and demands that anyone associated with the Trump regime must be ruthlessly crushed
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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
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Lots of commentary saying that it's not clear what the point of the speech is. Seems pretty clear to me. It's pitchrolling broad based tax rises in the Budget and making sure - as Reeves did with the fiscal rule change in 2024 - that it doesn't surprise the markets on the day.
Rachel Reeves' answer to @pippacrerar.bsky.social makes it crystal clear that Reeves is headed towards breaking a manifesto pledge on tax and how she will frame it - as a necessary response to "the world as it is" when the alternative would be more cuts or borrowing.
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Lots of commentary saying that it's not clear what the point of the speech is. Seems pretty clear to me. It's pitchrolling broad based tax rises in the Budget and making sure - as Reeves did with the fiscal rule change in 2024 - that it doesn't surprise the markets on the day.
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Why the trans campaign is losing”
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
Why the trans campaign is losing
Progressive revolutions and reactionary backlashes
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November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Why the trans campaign is losing”
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
Why the trans campaign is losing”
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
Why the trans campaign is losing
Progressive revolutions and reactionary backlashes
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Why the trans campaign is losing”
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
Podcast with Prof Ronan McCrea, author of the blistering The End of the Gay Rights Revolution: How Hubris and Overreach Threaten Gay Freedom
And then a long read from me on the dangers of feeding the radical right
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LGBTQ+ activists have played into the hands of their enemies. From Trump’s America to Putin’s Russia gay liberation is in danger. Podcast with Ronan McCrea and long read from me
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open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The LGBTQIA+ movement cannot see the danger from the radical right
The Lowdown on the threat to gay rights
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
LGBTQ+ activists have played into the hands of their enemies. From Trump’s America to Putin’s Russia gay liberation is in danger. Podcast with Ronan McCrea and long read from me
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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The Local Housing Allowance freeze increases the cost burden on councils through the provision of temporary accommodation.
Councils in England's net temporary accommodation costs reached £2.8 billion last year, a more than three-fold in the last decade.
The latest Housing Outlook ➡️ buff.ly/9r5qPBc
Councils in England's net temporary accommodation costs reached £2.8 billion last year, a more than three-fold in the last decade.
The latest Housing Outlook ➡️ buff.ly/9r5qPBc
November 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Local Housing Allowance freeze increases the cost burden on councils through the provision of temporary accommodation.
Councils in England's net temporary accommodation costs reached £2.8 billion last year, a more than three-fold in the last decade.
The latest Housing Outlook ➡️ buff.ly/9r5qPBc
Councils in England's net temporary accommodation costs reached £2.8 billion last year, a more than three-fold in the last decade.
The latest Housing Outlook ➡️ buff.ly/9r5qPBc
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She is being arrested because the video was leaked, rather than because events on the video happened....?
Israeli military’s former top lawyer arrested over leaked prisoner video on.ft.com/47lZDc1
Israeli military’s former top lawyer arrested over leaked prisoner video
Surveillance footage showed alleged abuse of Palestinian inmate at notorious Israeli prison
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November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
She is being arrested because the video was leaked, rather than because events on the video happened....?
LGBTQ+ activists have played into the hands of their enemies. From Trump’s America to Putin’s Russia gay liberation is in danger. Podcast with Ronan McCrea and long read from me
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The LGBTQIA+ movement cannot see the danger from the radical right
The Lowdown on the threat to gay rights
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
LGBTQ+ activists have played into the hands of their enemies. From Trump’s America to Putin’s Russia gay liberation is in danger. Podcast with Ronan McCrea and long read from me
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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Big tech is showing Trump and corrupt rulers every where that it can help destroy autocracy’s opponents
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The thug-nerd pact will get us in the end
When paranoid fantasies come true
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Big tech is showing Trump and corrupt rulers every where that it can help destroy autocracy’s opponents
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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The last 24 hours have shown us what Britain is truly up against: a small phalanx of hatemongers who despise Britain so much they want to drag it down into the same filth they live in.
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The last 24 hours have shown us what Britain is truly up against: a small phalanx of hatemongers who despise Britain so much they want to drag it down into the same filth they live in.
Big tech is showing Trump and corrupt rulers every where that it can help destroy autocracy’s opponents
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
The thug-nerd pact will get us in the end
When paranoid fantasies come true
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Big tech is showing Trump and corrupt rulers every where that it can help destroy autocracy’s opponents
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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Lil bump
Wrote about the dominance of "victims" in our political discourse, which included this fab chart @owenwntr.bsky.social www.economist.com/britain/2025...
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Lil bump
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If there were a change of leadership before the next election, it will be important to know if the next leader agrees with the current leader on the rejection of Idi Amin as an inspiration:
Current principle is now: no retrospective rule changes to deport or disadvantage legal & settled migrants
Current principle is now: no retrospective rule changes to deport or disadvantage legal & settled migrants
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If there were a change of leadership before the next election, it will be important to know if the next leader agrees with the current leader on the rejection of Idi Amin as an inspiration:
Current principle is now: no retrospective rule changes to deport or disadvantage legal & settled migrants
Current principle is now: no retrospective rule changes to deport or disadvantage legal & settled migrants
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The Times has deleted two articles - both hit pieces - this week. Has this ever happened before?
Rupert Murdoch-owned @thetimes.com of London completely fabricates a hit piece on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social , gets called out by former mayor Deblasio — then deletes it.🤔
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The Times has deleted two articles - both hit pieces - this week. Has this ever happened before?
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Ukraine’s military intelligence has caught up with another Russian war criminal who committed atrocities in the Kyiv region in 2022.
Lieutenant Colonel Veniamin Mazherin, 45, was blown up in his car in the Kemerovo region which is deep in the heart of Russia.
No Russian is safe.
Lieutenant Colonel Veniamin Mazherin, 45, was blown up in his car in the Kemerovo region which is deep in the heart of Russia.
No Russian is safe.
October 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ukraine’s military intelligence has caught up with another Russian war criminal who committed atrocities in the Kyiv region in 2022.
Lieutenant Colonel Veniamin Mazherin, 45, was blown up in his car in the Kemerovo region which is deep in the heart of Russia.
No Russian is safe.
Lieutenant Colonel Veniamin Mazherin, 45, was blown up in his car in the Kemerovo region which is deep in the heart of Russia.
No Russian is safe.