Nick Cohen

The Eye of Sauron is on Ukraine and it’s coming for us next

If Russia wins, we will have to live with the consequences for decades. Those will include a genuine fear of war, which will mean huge defence spending — and psychological costs

Time to expose the hypocrisy of Putin’s willing cheerleaders

Monomaniacs on both the far left and the far right are so obsessed with attacking their own societies that they lose track of reality, ignoring the evil of an actual war in Europe today

Ukrainians do not benefit from ‘white privilege’

The average Ukrainian has experienced more suffering than leftish commentators

Is Islamist terrorism a crime wave, or are we fighting a war?

Rather than being seen as a civilisational threat, Islamism is now seen as comparable to the anarchist movement at the turn of the last century — which eventually withered away

Labour should be looking to Israel for lessons on winning

Israeli politicians of all stripes put their differences aside for what they considered to be the greater good. In Britain, however, opposition parties refuse to make any compromises

How Britain’s young academics became so deeply radicalised

Lecturers know they are reliant for their future on the support of colleagues so they do not dare to step beyond the consensus, meaning that self-censorship becomes the norm

We should see our ancestors’ faces in those fleeing Taliban

Dominic Raab and Priti Patel, whose own forebears fled persecution and found refuge in Britain, should have taken much quicker action to help save the Afghans at risk of death

Detox. You will not miss Twitter and it will not miss you

I have seen good journalists degenerate into Twitter tub-thumpers during lockdown, picking feuds and screaming out policy positions

In the post-Corbyn Labour era, Starmer simply cannot win

Keir Starmer has become a prisoner of the paranoid style of his predecessor

Corbyn is history – it’s safe for Jews to vote Labour again

Just as the modernisers efforts to purge homophobia from the Conservatives attracted gay voters, Keir Starmer’s drive to kick out antisemitism means Jews can turn back to his party, writes Nick Cohen

Trump and Corbyn are both now leaders of losers’ cults

Supporters of both politicians 'live in fantasy worlds', says Nick Cohen

Not just a problem for South Park