Nick Cohen

Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer and author of What's Left and You Can't Read This Book.

How Corbyn's toxic legacy continues to sabotage the Labour party

25 July 2020 7:14 pm

On Thursday the supposedly resurgent Labour party lost control of Brighton and Hove, one of its few centres of power…

Boris Johnson’s command and control administration

21 July 2020 6:46 pm

Conservatives once knew that command and control didn’t work. Even if they didn’t know it intellectually, one former Conservative minister…

The coronavirus scandal no one is talking about

3 July 2020 3:12 am

For months, mental health charities and Labour politicians have been telling the government truths that were so self-evident to anyone…

The Red Wall overwhelmingly opposes a no-deal Brexit

15 June 2020 10:39 pm

It isn’t news to say the Johnson administration doesn’t understand how to fight Covid-19 or reopen schools or save the…

Is George Bush brave enough to tell voters to back Biden?

9 June 2020 11:32 pm

For an instant, it looked as if George W. Bush might be an example of integrity all who believe in liberal…

The lethal combination of Brexit and Covid

2 June 2020 12:04 am

The combination of Covid-19 and Brexit is a double whammy. The first was a haymaker that hit Britain from nowhere.…

Boris Johnson will regret standing by Dominic Cummings

25 May 2020 9:39 pm

Boris Johnson is a populist who no longer understands the populace. Dominic Cummings pretends to be an anti-elitist but cannot…

Coronavirus's forgotten victims

21 May 2020 11:06 pm

I am hearing stories about people with disabilities that make me feel ill. Visitors to care homes (parents and siblings,…

How to save our nightlife after coronavirus

14 May 2020 12:32 am

The one certainty about crisis is that it makes bad situations worse. Anyone working in restaurants, pubs, cafes and clubs…

Bailing out Richard Branson comes with a big price

21 April 2020 3:52 am

Richard Branson is asking British taxpayers – a club he resigned from when he moved his affairs to the lax…

Whatever happened to parliamentary democracy?

31 March 2020 1:16 am

In the middle of a national crisis, Britain has become a parliamentary democracy without a parliament. The police now have…

Is Boris Johnson serious enough to take on the coronavirus?

5 March 2020 9:30 pm

Boris Johnson’s handsome election victory was only three months ago, but already it feels like a relic from another age.…

Boris’s main opposition is his party’s ageing demographics

22 February 2020 6:40 pm

If you want to see why Britain’s future will be so decrepit, look at the dramas on ITV. Unlike the…

Labour’s far left is a personality cult without the personality

7 January 2020 3:57 am

The Labour left that has dominated radical culture since 2015 appears to have had a stroke. Its candidates for the…

A new leader won’t stop the far left’s domination of Labour

19 December 2019 8:10 pm

The far left controls the Labour bureaucracy, its National Executive Committee, its policy making, manifesto writing, many of its constituency…

The polling that shows Corbyn is to blame for Labour’s decline

13 December 2019 9:01 am

The reason Jeremy Corbyn is not preparing to lead the first majority Labour government since 2010 is Jeremy Corbyn. The…

The Troubles with Brexit

17 November 2019 6:00 pm

At times, it can be hard to avoid the preachy style of reviewing that talks to readers in the tone…

How our biased electoral system could change British history

31 October 2019 9:06 pm

Last night’s report in the Financial Times that Nigel Farage is considering a pact with Boris Johnson has terrified what…

Extremists have taken over the two main parties

5 September 2019 7:29 pm

Both main British parties are now characterised by intolerance of dissent, leader worship and racism. You can take a historical…

Boris is a weak man posing as a tough guy

25 July 2019 6:11 am

Boris Johnson is taking over the Conservative party like a gangster taking over a crime syndicate. Don’t let ideological labels…

Revealed: Tom Watson’s secret plan to oust Jeremy Corbyn

6 July 2019 9:00 am

The phrase ‘existential crisis’ is thrown around too easily. But it is hard to find a better description of the…

Why Tories are hooked on Boris Johnson

26 June 2019 1:45 am

Modern politicians are like drug dealers intent on keeping their clients’ hooked. They sell fixes to their core voters: upping…

Corbyn isn’t working – and Labour is being picked apart by its new enemies

25 May 2019 9:00 am

Protestors on the anti-Brexit marches have sensed an eerie absence. ‘What is it?’ I thought back in March as I…

The twisted truth about Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party

14 May 2019 10:17 pm

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party pretends to stand for the traditional values of old England: Parliamentary sovereignty, patriotism and decency. However little…

The Corbyn crack-up

16 February 2019 9:00 am

To say that the May administration is ‘the worst government anyone can remember’ is to abuse the English language. It…