Nick Cohen
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The future of Europe will be imperilled if the birthplace of democracy agrees to extradite eight ‘coup plotters’ to Turkey
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The protracted negotiations to extricate Britain from the European Union are exposing the falsity of Farage and his cohorts
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The recent sycophantic interviews show that the prime minister’s stubbornness and parochialism leave her ill-equipped for Brexit negotiations
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From George Orwell to Robert Harris, the paper has been home to many great polemicists, because they can write without any pressure to toe the party line
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Hard-won press freedoms are under attack on both sides of the Atlantic
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The traditional conservative voice is being drowned out by the forces of demagoguery and viciousness on the far right
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The foreign secretary and his fellow Brexiters have left this country in an imperilled and intolerable situation
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Trump’s victory shows we have reached a turning point and the left must change to survive
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The new demagogic right is seeking to undermine the checks and balances of our political system
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She told untruths to win the job and now she is doing the same to make us believe that she is acting in our interest
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Jeremy Corbyn’s failure of courage over Aleppo is no worse than that of other western leaders
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Donald Trump’s tax affairs are as nothing compared to those of the great global corporations
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Such is Corbyn’s grip on the Labour party that his supporters can pick off opponents with impunity
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From Brexit to Trump to Putin, it is the scourge of crude nationalism that must be challenged
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Dave Rich’s new history reveals the origins of Labour’s recent antisemitic scandal in a wider leftwing revival of prejudice
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The harsh political truth is that Europe will have no qualms about turning its back on Britain
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The National Trust’s purchase of Thorneythwaite sheep farm is part of a plan to reshape the landscape to meet the threat of global warming
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The internet has helped polarise politics but the zealots need to look to themselves
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Donald Trump is being allowed such free rein because Republicans are reluctant to face him down
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The party whose raison d’etre was once to govern has now become unelectable, robbing Britain of a viable opposition
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Labour and the Tories were both unprepared for the opportunists and nationalists who were preparing to wreck our prosperity
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These over-grown adolescents now skip away from the awful results of their folly
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The first week following Britain’s vote to exit the EU has seen crises on several fronts. Joining Tom Clark to bring order to the chaos are Jonathan Freedland, Nick Cohen, Ewen MacAskill, Libby Brooks, Jill Treanor and Philip Oltermann
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The Brexit figureheads had no plan besides exploiting populist fears and dismissing experts who rubbished their thinking
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Vote Leave has poisoned rational debate by endorsing paranoid populism, the spirit of our age
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There was no deathbed conversion to Christianity, despite the claims of a ‘strange, spiteful book’
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This urgent, encyclopedic study explores what freedom of speech means in an age of diversity
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