With Trump threatening to destroy Iranian civilisation tonight, piece from me on the need to reject euphemism and phoney rationalisations and state in plain language that he is a mad sadist, out of mind on absolute power open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

With Trump threatening to destroy Iranian civilisation tonight, piece from me on the need to reject euphemism and phoney rationalisations and state in plain language that he is a mad sadist, out of mind on absolute power open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Will Trump try to commit genocide? Won't he? Apparently "we will find out tonight". It's war as US reality TV (to a degree beyond anything Baudrillard imagined). Every hour Trump is allowed to go on posting this stuff while being president does further irreparable harm to the US.

The president of the United States is now threatening to commit genocide.

Vance's endorsement of Orban is an endorsement of Putin. It's not just that Trump's America is no longer our ally, it is rapidly becoming our enemy

Liberalism’s fatal failures – interview with Bloomberg’s @adwooldridge on how free-market, globalist and left-wing versions of liberalism have all overreached and produced a terrifying backlash nickcohen.substack.com/p/the-corrup...

It's probably because I don't make millions in bonuses but I genuinely don't understand why Trump's war in the Gulf isn't panicking markets. S&P and FTSE seem remarkably complacent

you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.

The real leader of the Green Party is Ed Milliband. Zack’s gang is YourParty with better branding and message discipline

A nice vignette on the entire Brexit debate. Remainers: it will be bad long term if the UK's growth is lower by around 0.5% per annum. Brexiteers: we can't allow raspberry jam to be called raspberry marmalade on English supermarket shelves. /1

The falsiest of false flags being revved up rn. JD Vance flying there to endorse him, of course.

The weird roots of wokeness" Holiday read from me on why American leftism feels so strange open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

"Brexit, Hilary Mantel and England’s endless lies" Holiday read from me on why one of England’s greatest novelists turned against her country

"Brexit, Hilary Mantel and England's endless lies" Holiday read from me on why one of England’s greatest novelists turned against her country nickcohen.substack.com/p/brexit-hil...

"Brexit, Hilary Mantel and England's endless lies" Holiday read from me on why one of England’s greatest novelists turned against her country nickcohen.substack.com/p/brexit-hil...

Deeply depressing. Just lazy soundbites and bad economics. Populism without racism is infinitely preferable to the combination. But Greens badly need something that actually resembles a coherent economic strategy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Brexit, Hilary Mantel and England’s endless lies" Holiday read from me on why one of England’s greatest novelists turned against her country

The administration's failure to understand that NATO was created as, and remained, a collective security alliance founded on US self-interest is most obvious in Trump himself. As with many other things, he seems incapable of understanding even the most basic aspects of NATO.

It shouldn’t be hard to believe that Trump is a Russian agent - updated piece from me on the evidence that the Kremlin has a man in the White House

Tinker, tailor, Tory, traitor Piece from me on why the right are now more likely to betray their country to Putin than the left

Historians spend a lot of time exploring American Exceptionalism, but this is surely another example an age-old British Exceptionalism: 'We are so special that America won't do to us that which it has done to every other nation or group that gets in it's way. We can have a special relationship'.

The British right made a huge bet on the American alliance holding together when they took us out of the EU. And they bet wrong. Trump has blown up the American alliance and so now we head back to Europe again

Trump's second term really is the American Brexit. A catastrophic failure to understand the world fuelled by vanity, lies and nationalist delusion

Tinker, tailor, Tory, traitor Piece from me on why the right are now more likely to betray their country to Putin than the left

"It’s a cult!" Trump has broken every promise he made about keeping America out of needless foreign wars but still right-wing Americans back him The Lowdown with Charlie Sykes on the death of intelligent conservatism

Trump has 2 business methods. 1. Sign his name on anything and sell the brand. See signed coins and notes for US 250th anniversary. 2. Speculate with other people's money. See major trades using inside war info. So being president is an extension of TrumpCorp. We say corrupt, he says business.

"It’s a cult!" Trump has broken every promise he made about keeping America out of needless foreign wars but still right-wing Americans back him The Lowdown with Charlie Sykes on the death of intelligent conservatism

“The popularity of the TACO explanation is a sign there is still no understanding [among conservatives] of the disaster they ushered in. The real chickens are the men & women who refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes or make any attempt to rectify them.” Piece from me

“TACO is Wacko!” Piece from me attacking the’ comforting conservative belief that Trump is a rational actor who can be relied on to see sense in the end

It is absolutely stupid that a major focus of policy response to the Iran War is on the planned 1p rise in fuel duty in September (watching Trevor Phillips interview Bridget Phillipson). Of no help now to anyone to abandon it. Shows how trivial our political debate has become.

“The popularity of the TACO explanation is a sign there is still no understanding [among conservatives] of the disaster they ushered in. The real chickens are the men & women who refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes or make any attempt to rectify them.” open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Superb read. Some highlights: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

at what point do politicians work out that the reasons to ban crypto donations - and the logistical challenges in doing so - are in fact reasons to ban crypto outright by far its main use case is crime

“Trump isn’t a chicken. He’s the monster he has always been. The real chickens are the men and women who refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes or make any attempt to rectify them.”

“Comfortable conservatives, not least the bankers and hedge fund managers who read the financial press, wanted establishment journalists to tell them that Trump wasn’t a menace because it absolved them of responsibility.” Nick Cohen has it right. 👇

“The popularity of the TACO explanation is a sign there is still no understanding [among conservatives] of the disaster they ushered in. The real chickens are the men & women who refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes or make any attempt to rectify them.” Piece from me

This is the kind of question the govt will have to answer if it enacts the retrospective ILR changes. Imagine the headlines once we see cases of British families ripped apart because the foreign spouse can’t travel back in time. Some journalists might want to consider whether that will be ‘popular’.

“TACO is Wacko!” Piece from me attacking the’ comforting conservative belief that Trump is a rational actor who can be relied on to see sense in the end

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

Well, after last night’s GBNews debate I no longer need to explain to students the risks of using AI to write papers since Matt G has done us all a favour by having a fever dream meltdown trying to justify it. And to think we thought his contributions to academia were over.

Frank Furedi and the vacuity of the radical right – piece from me on the cowardice of the intellectuals behind Brexit and Orbán

New Substack out. It's all about how politics has modern work largely wrong. And what a contemporary politics of work might look like. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...

Vance told Netanyahu in a "difficult" call that several of Netanyahu's predictions about the war had proved far too optimistic. Not the least that there’d be a popular uprising. Not sure “predictions” is the right word.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

A thought provoking piece from @nickcohen.bsky.social nickcohen.substack.com/p/orbans-cou...

Frank Furedi and the vacuity of the radical right – piece from me on the cowardice of the intellectuals behind Brexit and Orbán

First Minister John Swinney bsky.app/profile/holy...

`Prince William feigns religious belief to secure the throne…and the media goes along with the charade Piece from me on the story royal correspondents don’t discuss

With antisemites attacking Jewish targets in London today, I am reposting this interview with Howard Jacobson and long read from me on the revival of anti-Jewish hate

I commented on xenophobic claims about London being 'violent' and a pattern of targeting of US liberal cities and universities for this interesting article from @timeshighered.bsky.social Viral disinformation about London safety ‘damaging universities’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/viral-d...