Nick Cohen
Ending Syria’s torment: what needs to be done?
The bodies were no longer there. Nonetheless pieces of brain, pools of blood and other human remains indicated that a massacre had taken place in the village of Qubair in Syria’s brutalised Hama province. The victims likely included children, according to eyewitness reports. The outrage was preceded by acts of venality and civilian slaughter in [...]
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 3:00 am
The Rushdie debacle is an indictment of India’s democracy
It is thecomplaint of the complacent to argue,“it’s all their fault” and in India the opportunity to argue “it’s them” isever-present. But with the dust almost settled on the Rushdie fiasco, it’s apparent that this complaint against India’s government is not being made often enough.
By Ram Mashru | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 11:33 am
Nick Cohen’s cocksure forecast
“Instead of arguing honestly with their readers, conservatives dress up their desires as prophecies and pretend that they can see the future.”
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye | Thursday, 13 January 2011 at 1:00 pm
Clegg and the Compost Accelerator
Nick Cohen on scathing form on The Strange Death of Liberal England (Again) in the forthcoming Spectator (it is not online, but there is more via Alex Massie here):
The Liberals have no right to be surprised. Conservative-minded readers may think that the British liberal-left is good for nothing, but, trust me, we are world leaders [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 12 January 2011 at 10:05 pm
Beware the media soothsayers
Ed Miliband might well prove a disaster. But that depends on how he does in the job. It wasn’t so long ago that the right was pouring scorn on Nick Clegg.
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