Nick Cohen
How the Left Turned Against the Jews
Anti-Semitism has never been confined to the Right. Its latest manifestation is the left-wing campaign to undermine Israel
It’s Those Damned Danes Again
Politics is great drama, as Borgen, a fine Danish series, shows. So why do British scriptwriters ignore it?
Sun Sets on Daybreak Couple
The stars have been axed because they tried to push their show an inch upmarket
We Only Pretend to Defend Free Speech
Western liberals are happy to speak truth to power—when they are sure they won’t be thrown in prison or the subject of a fatwa
MTV for Tories
Julian Fellowes’s Downton Abbey epitomises the worst features of the culture he claims to challenge
What We Didn’t Know About Boris and Ken
Millions think next year’s London mayoral election is between an amiable Bertie Wooster and a Cockney cheeky chappie. Don’t you believe it
They Never Saw The Crash Coming
The boom years lasted so long that writers and artists lost their nose for trouble
Media Myopia
Simplistic and divisive, the media response to the riots was utterly predictable
Writers Blocked
The odd script may show promise but TV executives are stifling British dramatists
Prisoners of Bad Conscience
BBC 4 failed to deal impartially with Amnesty International’s shameful loss of impartiality
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts