Nick Cohen
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British journalist and author Read me on Substack
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about 18 hours ago
NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy.
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter-the-bbc-could-send-back
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The Economist
about 9 hours ago
When rigmarole becomes reality
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Sir Keir Starmer is a prisoner of the politics he pledged to end
When rigmarole becomes reality
https://econ.st/3XwqqMR
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Arthur Snell
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In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.
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POLITICO Europe
about 9 hours ago
The weakness of the European Commissionâs proposal to tackle foreign interference in elections shows an ominous deference to US interests, critics have said.
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Commission accused of setting âdangerous precedentâ in foreign interference plan
One of Ursula von der Leyenâs key campaign promises was unveiled to an underwhelming reception.
https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-eu-digital-rules-democracy-shield-foreign-interference-plan/
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"The anti-journalism culture at the BBC" Piece from me on how BBC managementâs lack of concern for basic journalistic standards is threatening the BBCâs future
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The anti-journalism culture at the BBC
Deputy heads should roll
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/the-anti-journalism-culture-at-the?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 22 hours ago
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Drazen Simic
about 15 hours ago
The British political system gives every appearance of facing a crisis without precedent, and no one knows where it will end.
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Britain goes berserk
Robert Saunders on the great unravelling
https://nickcohen.substack.com/p/britain-goes-berserk
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Annette Dittert
about 22 hours ago
Itâs just depressing. But as much as I had hoped for them to succeed, Starmer seems stuck in the analogue world and simply not up for the job in the digital age. Apart from not having a clear vision of what he wants on a broader level. He prob will and should go.
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"The anti-journalism culture at the BBC" Piece from me on how BBC managementâs lack of concern for basic journalistic standards is threatening the BBCâs future
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The anti-journalism culture at the BBC
Deputy heads should roll
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/the-anti-journalism-culture-at-the?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
about 22 hours ago
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Britain goes berserk â long read from me and podcast with historian
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on how Farage could become PM on a tiny share of the vote
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Britain goes berserk
Robert Saunders on the great unravelling
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/britain-goes-berserk?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 days ago
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Britain goes berserk â long read from me and podcast with historian
@robertsaunders.bsky.social
on how Farage could become PM on a tiny share of the vote
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Britain goes berserk
Robert Saunders on the great unravelling
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/britain-goes-berserk?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 days ago
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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
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If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?
The radical right is also the enemy of journalism
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/if-the-bbc-is-so-woke-how-come-it?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 days ago
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"Sources close to" Bob Borsley
3 days ago
Good piece by
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on what some would call the crisis engulfing the BBC. (Whether thatâs a reasonable description remains to be seen.)
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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...
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If the BBC is so woke, how come it grovels before Farage?
The radical right is also the enemy of journalism
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/if-the-bbc-is-so-woke-how-come-it?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
4 days ago
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Arthur Snell
6 days ago
Violence baguettes violence.
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Peter Walker
7 days ago
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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Robert Saunders
9 days ago
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
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Gus Ironside
11 days ago
âYou may think you live an unexceptional, law-abiding lifeâŚ(but) maybe you engaged in heretical thought crimes on social media which will allow left or right to destroy your life.â Important piece by
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Alexander Clarkson
8 days ago
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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Peter Stefanovic
9 days ago
Leaving the ECHR wonât âTake Back Controlâ â it will hand your rights to politicians
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Leaving the ECHR wonât âTake Back Controlâ â it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different â without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/justice/leaving-the-echr-wont-take-back-control-it-will-hand-your-rights-to-politicians/
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Jessica Elgot
9 days ago
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 losingâ 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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Why the trans campaign is losing
Progressive revolutions and reactionary backlashes
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/why-the-trans-campaign-is-losing?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
9 days ago
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Why the trans campaign is losingâ 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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Why the trans campaign is losing
Progressive revolutions and reactionary backlashes
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/why-the-trans-campaign-is-losing?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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LGBTQ+ activists have played into the hands of their enemies. From Trumpâs America to Putinâs Russia gay liberation is in danger. Podcast with Ronan McCrea and long read from me
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The LGBTQIA+ movement cannot see the danger from the radical right
The Lowdown on the threat to gay rights
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/the-lgbtqia-movement-cannot-see-the?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
10 days ago
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Resolution Foundation
10 days ago
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 ÂŁ2.8 billion last year, a more than three-fold in the last decade. The latest Housing Outlook âĄď¸
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Darth Putin
10 days ago
She is being arrested because the video was leaked, rather than because events on the video happened....?
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LGBTQ+ activists have played into the hands of their enemies. From Trumpâs America to Putinâs Russia gay liberation is in danger. Podcast with Ronan McCrea and long read from me
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The LGBTQIA+ movement cannot see the danger from the radical right
The Lowdown on the threat to gay rights
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/the-lgbtqia-movement-cannot-see-the?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Big tech is showing Trump and corrupt rulers every where that it can help destroy autocracyâs opponents Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
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The thug-nerd pact will get us in the end
When paranoid fantasies come true
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/the-thug-nerd-pact-will-get-us-in?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
11 days ago
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Glen O'Hara
10 days ago
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.
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Big tech is showing Trump and corrupt rulers every where that it can help destroy autocracyâs opponents Piece from me on the merger of tech and power
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The thug-nerd pact will get us in the end
When paranoid fantasies come true
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/the-thug-nerd-pact-will-get-us-in?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
11 days ago
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Duncan Robinson
14 days ago
Lil bump
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
14 days ago
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
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Will Jenningsđđłď¸
15 days ago
The Times has deleted two articles - both hit pieces - this week. Has this ever happened before?
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Mark Chadbourn
14 days ago
Ukraineâs 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.
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The Conservatives plans to deport hundreds of thousands of legal residents of the UK are far more extreme than anything Donald Trump is proposing Piece from me on the horror show of the right morphing into the far right
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"Respectable" racism and the mass deportation of our neighbours
How the British right out-Trumps Trump
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/respectable-racism-and-the-mass-deportation?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
20 days ago
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With its Islamified left, radical right and failing centre, France represents Europeâs future I recorded a grim podcast with the French journalist and historian Agnès Poirier on how it could be a future where the radical right dominates.
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Torn between an Islamified left and a radical right France is the Westâs future
The Lowdon with Agnès Poirier
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/torn-between-an-islamified-left-and?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
16 days ago
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Twlldun
15 days ago
Ah yes, the years 1997-2010, definitely a period the former chairman of Northern Rock should be casting a stone at the public sector over
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Arthur Snell
15 days ago
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
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British Council âselling everything it canâ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off âfinancial perilâ
https://on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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Ben Stanley
16 days ago
Starting to think that not constitutional design, nor affective polarisation, nor declining institutional trust, but bothsidesism will be what finally does for democracy.
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Edward Luce on silence and complicity in Trumpâs Washington Podcast and piece on how US democracy is cracking under the MAGA assault
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Edward Luce on silence and complicity in Trumpâs Washington
A little fear goes a long way
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/edward-luce-on-silence-and-complicity?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
24 days ago
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With its Islamified left, radical right and failing centre, France represents Europeâs future I recorded a grim podcast with the French journalist and historian Agnès Poirier on how it could be a future where the radical right dominates.
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
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Torn between an Islamified left and a radical right France is the Westâs future
The Lowdon with Agnès Poirier
https://open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/p/torn-between-an-islamified-left-and?r=333vp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
16 days ago
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Eugene Finkel
16 days ago
I am old enough to remember people in the West and especially college students, actually giving a damn about Darfur. Now, nobody gives a shit. I have no idea why, it's not like there is a legal limit on the number of conflicts and massacres one can care about, Gaza or Ukraine are not an excuse.
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Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher
RSF says it has seized control of armyâs main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement camp
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/27/fears-civilians-sudan-paramilitary-rsf-capture-el-fasher
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Rory Cellan-Jones
17 days ago
Airline strands ex-BBC editor, citing Parkinson's
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Donât travel with Turkish Airlines- they discriminate against people with Parkinsonâs
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'My sin was having Parkinson's': Presenter left stranded
Mark Mardell was left feeling 'humiliated' after he was told he could not board a flight.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9dx4zgzjzo
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Philip Stephens
16 days ago
Average pay for partners at EY accounting firm was ÂŁ787,000 last year. Partners have responded by launching a lobbying campaign to stop the Treasury changing the rules to ensure that, like everyone else, they pay NICs on their earnings.
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Stephen Graham
17 days ago
The world is now a competition between non-oppressed groups cosplaying at being oppressed.
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Chris Grey
17 days ago
Painful to watch, but revealing, too, of the tactical problem for the Tories of pitching Reform-like messages whilst also trying to differentiate themselves from Reform. And good to see dogged questioning from Lewis Goodall.
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Jon Owen
18 days ago
"There is no great outcry in the right-wing press or from conservative politicians against mass deportation. The days when they stood up to the injustice of retrospective legislation are long gone." A good read, this.
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Richard Haviland
18 days ago
âReaders need to realise that the supposedly refined and respectable British Conservatives are now more extreme than Trumpâ.
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Chris Arundel
20 days ago
When Nick Griffin, former leader of the BNP, appeared on BBC Question Time on October 22nd 2009, it was considered a national scandal. Now Reform and Conservatives appear on the programme regularly and advocate similar far-right policies and there are no protests at all.
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Memnon of Rhodes
20 days ago
The commitment of centre-right politicians for decades after the WWII to act as a firewall between them and the far right has collapsed.
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Annette Dittert
20 days ago
"There is no great outcry in the right-wing press or from conservative politicians against mass deportation. The days when they stood up to the injustice of retrospective legislation are long gone." Another good and valuable read on how fast things seem to shift in Britain atm. Deeply worrying.
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