Nick Cohen

Tony Blair has discredited Blairism, enabling a far-left ideologue to gain control of the party despite his grotesque worldview

Having stolen a Klimt masterpiece, the Nazis could only show it if they hid the Jewish identity of its subject

Deeyah Khan’s groundbreaking documentary on British jihadists
will satisfy neither Left nor Right

The myth of a ‘progressive majority’ mesmerises the Left. Fail to learn the lessons of defeat and Labour will lose next time too

The stifling right-wing press has adopted a cultish refusal to publish one good word about the BBC

Scottish nationalism has destroyed civility north of the border, putting journalists in the firing line

The sooner the Left realises that you cannot censor your way to a better society the sooner it can worry about more important issues

Online news’ thirst for traffic has sidelined polemics and transformed journalists into thieves and liars

Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, superbly adapted for television, is brilliant because it defies easy definition

The Left is paying a heavy price for its cowardice towards Islamist fascism. The state is demanding new powers to deal with the threat