Nick Cohen

2/ @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social's piece on Goodwin for Prospect is excellent & identfies what looks to be his driving motivation. Standing in Gorton & Denton may well prove more humiliating than he hopes.
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/philos...

Trump and Rubio praise Orbán: the godfather of Western corruption And copy his attacks on free speech and press freedom

Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on the corrupt Putin-aligned autocracy that Trump, Rubio and their fans would like the rest of Europe to emulate:
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Trump and Rubio praise Orbán: the godfather of Western corruption And copy his attacks on free speech and press freedom

Orban’s Hungarian autocracy inspires Trump’s America
Today Marco Rubio is paying court to Viktor Orban – the greatest enemy of press freedom in modern Europe, Piece from me on the emptiness of conservatives’ commitment to free speech
nickcohen.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

Hungary is the size of Indiana, with the population of London.

The population of Hungary is declining as young people leave, people keep dying, and couples decline to have children despite government incentives.

2014-2025 saw emigration increase under Orban and his collaborators.

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.

Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.

Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

Rishi Sunak: Every CEO is talking about AI — why aren’t our leaders? Britain will become a tourist theme park if we don’t fix our productivity problem — Keir Starmer has an opportunity to solve it with technology

Two-dimensional piece on AI adoption from Sunak.

Basically, adopt or die. Inject it into every nook and cranny of the public sector and people will love it, you'll see.

This is a recipe for corporate welfare rather than public good.

www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Economic growth as social change Raising economic growth requires the government to defeat some vested interests.

New substack: politics is not about cosy debates or soundbites on silly TV shows. It’s about conflicts of interest. chrisdillow.substack.com/p/economic-g...

I love the flat, robotic way he says 'Keir Starmer looks like a robot.'

Trump and Rubio praise Orbán: the godfather of Western corruption And copy his attacks on free speech and press freedom

Orban’s Hungarian autocracy inspires Trump’s America
Today Marco Rubio is paying court to Viktor Orban – the greatest enemy of press freedom in modern Europe, Piece from me on the emptiness of conservatives’ commitment to free speech
nickcohen.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

OTD in 2022 George Galloway released one of the absolute, all-time classics.

He has yet to delete it, show humility, or confirm/deny if this means he in fact being paid to act like an idiot, or if he just does it free.

#JustAskingQuestions

Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.

Fuck, quite frankly, Farage.

Sprouting Putin's lines vertabin

Live with Nick Cohen!: Is Keir Starmer Finished After Epstein Revelation?! A recording from Nick Cohen and Ben Cohen's live video

I had a wide-ranging and tough-minded interview with Ben Cohen of the Banter in Washington on the fate of Keir Starmer after the Epstein crisis

nickcohen.substack.com/p/live-with-...

Live with Nick Cohen!: Is Keir Starmer Finished After Epstein Revelation?! A recording from Nick Cohen and Ben Cohen's live video

I had a wide-ranging and tough-minded interview with Ben Cohen of the Banter in Washington on the fate of Keir Starmer after the Epstein crisis

nickcohen.substack.com/p/live-with-...

The Epstein network: Sex, moles and Mandelson How to corrupt the system

The Epstein network: Sex, moles and Mandelson
Piece from me on how the Epstein worked like a spy master to infiltrate banks and governments
comment.press/eppy1202

The Epstein network: Sex, moles and Mandelson How to corrupt the system

The Epstein network: Sex, moles and Mandelson
Piece from me on how the Epstein worked like a spy master to infiltrate banks and governments
comment.press/eppy1202

It would be good for GM Mayor Andy Burnham to challenge Jim Ratcliffe's false numbers and ugly language

Manchester Utd owner is giving media interviews claiming UK "colonised" by immigrants

He thinks population rose 12 million snce 2020!

11 million people born abroad; this was 9.5 million in 2020, so that is up 1.5 million (not 12 million) but rose 7 million in 30 years from 4m before 1997

Tisza’s foreign policy offer: Plans for a post-Orban Hungary     – European Council on Foreign Relations After nearly 16 years of Fidesz rule, the centre-right Tisza party stands a chance of winning Hungary’s April election. Under their rule, Budapest would work wi

Today, the NPP published the Hungarian political scientist Zsuzsanna Végh on the foreign policies of Tisza, the opposition party challenging Viktor Orbán's authoritarian rule at the election there in April. It includes exclusive new polling of Tisza and Fidesz supporters.

ecfr.eu/article/tisz...

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

Brilliant an disturbing reporting from @sianushka.bsky.social

This convo has been had so many times but it’s worth repeating - most left wing people in 2026 are progressives who aren’t keen on things like Reformy style immigration policies or cuts to welfare for disabled ppl.

They aren’t checking state spending rates in their analysis of left vs right

Chart showing proportion of non pensioner low to middle income families in different tenure types

In 1994-95, three-in-ten families in Unsung Britain had a mortgage. But by 2023-24, renting privately was the most common tenure (29 per cent), with the proportion living with parents (15 per cent) almost as high as the share of mortgaged families (17 per cent).

An 11 ppt swing from mortgagers to renters over the 3 decades since 1995 means that 8.6 million people in lower-income families rent from a private landlord.

These people spend on average 43 per cent of their total household budget on rent.

Read Unsung Britain now ⤵️ buff.ly/7WcqrbQ

This is what we're up against. Bangor University, that fine and noble institution where I've spoken twice, nearly 150 years young and still going strong. The sheer hatred they reserve for us shows what could happen after 2029, but also that they're frightened of knowledge and learning.

It's a bit rich considering he leads a party of pensioners!

Keir Starmer’s electoral suicide – and how to fix it Labour must abandon its “punch a hippy” strategy

"They won’t like me saying it, but for Labour to save the country, it must embrace its inner hippy." @nickcohen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Keir Starmer’s electoral suicide – and how to fix it Labour must abandon its “punch a hippy” strategy

McSweeney and Starmer’s epic failure.

Piece and podcast with Labour thinker John McTernan on how Labour’s crazy determination to punch its natural supporters has opened the door for the far right
nickcohen.substack.com/p/keir-starm...

Keir Starmer’s electoral suicide – and how to fix it Labour must abandon its “punch a hippy” strategy

McSweeney and Starmer’s epic failure.

Piece and podcast with Labour thinker John McTernan on how Labour’s crazy determination to punch its natural supporters has opened the door for the far right
nickcohen.substack.com/p/keir-starm...

In case you missed it earlier, my NEW BOOK on the Blair years has arrived! It seems crass to promote it given everything that's happening, but I think it's a fair and balanced take. Here's a non-Amazon link where you can pick up a copy: www.waterstones.com/book/new-lab...

We don’t need the Putin-Epstein conspiracy theory… …What we already know is bad enough

You don’t need to believe the conspiracy theory that Epstein was providing kompromat to the Russians. What we know for sure about Mandelson, Trump and the plutocracy is already bad enough
Piece from me
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