Nick Cohen

Anti-Semitism has never been confined to the Right. Its latest manifestation is the left-wing campaign to undermine Israel

Politics is great drama, as Borgen, a fine Danish series, shows. So why do British scriptwriters ignore it?

The stars have been axed because they tried to push their show an inch upmarket

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

Julian Fellowes’s Downton Abbey epitomises the worst features of the culture he claims to challenge

Millions think next year’s London mayoral election is between an amiable Bertie Wooster and a Cockney cheeky chappie. Don’t you believe it

The boom years lasted so long that writers and artists lost their nose for trouble

Simplistic and divisive, the media response to the riots was utterly predictable

The odd script may show promise but TV executives are stifling British dramatists