Articles By Nick Cohen
July/August 2010
They were all members of an obscure outpost of the hard Left. Now they're on The Moral Maze
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June 2010
The scrum on College Green, showed that compared to Murdoch, the BBC isn't so bad
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June 2010
Don’t be fooled by the Lib Dems’ moderate image. Nick Clegg’s party harbours some highly illiberal people
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May 2010
The BBC wilfully ignored Corin Redgrave’s paranoid politics and his evil friends
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May 2010
This election will go down as a dishonest campaign: none of the parties came clean with the voters about the economy
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April 2010
BBC Radio 5 Live's commentators aren't afraid to tell the truth about how tedious sport can be
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March 2010
The BBC and the rest of the media elite will never forgive Blair for betraying them
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March 2010
European liberalism has gone badly wrong. Why does a culture that prides itself on opposition to bigotry become so feeble when confronted by reactionary clerics?
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January/February 2010
Watching the latest batch of spy thrillers, you'd never guess who the real enemy was
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January/February 2010
As anti-Thatcher literature blossomed in the 1980s, it was tempting to argue that the Right had won the economic war and the Left had won the cultural war. But the real victors of the past 30 years are blaring populists, ignorant and proud of it.
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December 2009
The BBC has created an admirable series about a pioneering barrister — Garrow's Law
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December 2009
We imagine that the web is a forum for uncensored thought. We couldn't be more wrong
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November 2009
Derek Pasquill, the Foreign Office whistleblower who leaked documents on its collusion with Islamists, now faces ruin
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November 2009
The BBC's adaptation of Emma might promote sexual chemistry but it lacks all tension
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October 2009
Ant and Dec rigged their game shows, but the fans have left them off the hook
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October 2009
Britain's arcane and illogical libel laws, litigious oligarchs and oil sheikhs have made it almost impossible to report the truth
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September 2009
Is the BBC trying to appeal to the same audience that watches internet porn?
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September 2009
Liberals and feminists do not consider the oppression of women a pressing concern when done in the name of culture or religion
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July/August 2009
Nick Cohen: Crisis and scandal have confirmed voters’ suspicions about their rulers. We are witnessing a taxpayers’ revolt
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July/August 2009
TV’s property queen was ridiculed, but she was only talking to her audience without humbug
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June 2009
When newspapers go under, the independence of the BBC will follow
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June 2009
They know who really killed JFK and Diana — many of us believe them. Who are these peddlers of paranoia? asks Nick Cohen
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May 2009
The Prime Minister has surrounded himself with attack dogs who undermine rival politicians and critical journalists
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May 2009
The people behind BBC's Horizon abandon scientific discovery for cheap - and inaccurate - thrills
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April 2009
TV journalists should start to worry. Their fate may be as grim as that of the press
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March 2009
Documentaries now focus on the emotions of the presenter. There's nothing good to be said for this
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February 2009
The Islam Channel employs a ‘‘rapid rebuttal service’’ run by top libel lawyers. Why?
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January 2009
The Devil's Whore fails to acknowledge the role of religious passions in the Civil War
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December 2008
Little Dorrit's uncanny similarities to today's financial crisis makes it more suitable for adaptation than much of modern literature
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November 2008
Far from revealing what has gone wrong with American politics, Simon Schama's new series shows what has gone wrong with British television
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October 2008
With audiences turning to the online world, television is caught in a deadly web
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August 2008
The London Bombers was a major drama-documentary about 7/7 of which the BBC should have been proud
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July 2008
Channel 4 News's anchorman has to disguise his political bias as neutrality, a pretence that is both insidious and unmanly
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June 2008
Thatcherism provoked great TV but the makers of Headcases are too liberal, too condescending and not nearly angry enough
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About Nick Cohen
Nick Cohen is a columnist for the Observer. He is the author of Pretty Straight Guys, What's Left?, and Waiting for the Etonians. For more information and his previous blog, visit nickcohen.net
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