Nick Cohen
How to Make History Badly
Far from revealing what has gone wrong with American politics, Simon Schama’s new series shows what has gone wrong with British television
The Triumph of the Internet
With audiences turning to the online world, television is caught in a deadly web
Self-Censorship And The BBC
The London Bombers was a major drama-documentary about 7/7 of which the BBC should have been proud
Jon Snow and the Gilded Cage
Channel 4 News’s anchorman has to disguise his political bias as neutrality, a pretence that is both insidious and unmanly
All Satirical Passion Spent
Thatcherism provoked great TV but the makers of Headcases are too liberal, too condescending and not nearly angry enough
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Search engine: why Germany's foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Alliances and dalliances
“The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant”