Nick Cohen

Nick Cohen, a political journalist and writer, is a columnist for The Observer and The Spectator magazine, and a TV critic for Standpoint magazine. He is the author of several books, including Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous (2000), What’s Left?: How the Left Lost Its Way (2007), and, most recently, You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom (2012). (July 2018)

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The BBC and Brexit: An Exchange

James Stephenson: This is not an organization frightened of journalism, but committed to it. Nick Cohen: The BBC has let Britain down because it fears being seen to question the people’s verdict.

July 17, 2018

How the BBC Lost the Plot on Brexit

The BBC’s reporting of the scandals around the Brexit referendum is not biased or unbalanced: it barely exists. It is as though the US networks had decided the Mueller investigation was no concern of theirs.

July 12, 2018

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