Nick Cohen
England will sink giggling into the sea
‘There is nothing comfortable or comforting about modern British history’
Damage and disillusion
‘Among large sections of the middle class, the belief in British good fortune and British good sense has vanished. Politically, I cannot see where their anger goes’
Heathens and heretics
‘Virtually everyone I know is engaged in arguments about whether it is worth staying with either main party’
The joy of virtual sex
Can society stand by and allow the technology that allows people to simulate sex with their neighbour?
Extremism is good business
Promoting demagogues of Left and Right makes for increased ratings but is bad for democracy
Moral cowardice of conservatives
Eurosceptics lacked the integrity to acknowledge the consequences of leaving the EU’s single market
You too, Polanski
Hollywood has finally washed its hands of a sexual predator, a mere 40 years after his conviction
The madness of Lord Adonis
The centrist ex-minister has joined Left and Right in denouncing the BBC for its political bias
McCarthyism is Corbyn’s alibi
The legitimate language of dissent is being abused by politicians of Left and Right alike
Russian spider spins its web
Putin’s propagandists are running rings round the West, aided by naive and ignorant media outlets
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?