Background

Nicholas Cohen was born in 1961 in Stockport, Cheshire, England.

Education

Cohen attended Altrincham Grammar School for Boys in Altrincham, United Kingdom. Later he was educated at Hertford College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

Career

Cohen began his career at the "Sutton Coldfield News" in 1984. Later he moved to "The Birmingham Post," and worked there in 1984-1987. From 1990-1992 he worked as a general news reporter in "The Independent & Observer." Cohen was a feature writer for "Independent on Sunday" in 1992-96. In 1996 he became a columnist for "Observer." He does occasional pieces for "Time," "the Spectator," "Standpoint" and "New Humanist." He is the author of Cruel Britannia (1999) Pretty Straight Guys (2003) What’s Left: How Liberals Lost Their Way? (2007) and ‘Waiting for The Etonians’ (2009).

Achievements

• Nick Cohen is a well-known political commentator and columnist for the Observer. He does occasional pieces for numerous periodicals, such as "Time," "The Spectator" and others. He also is the author of several books, which were highly regarded by critics.

Works

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  • You Can't Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom

    (The uncompromising Nick Cohen exposes the reality behind ...)

    2012
  • Pretty Straight Guys

    (Nick Cohen explores the feeling of angry impotence which ...)

    2003
  • Living With Lies: Nick Cohen in Standpoint 2013
  • What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way 2015
  • Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England 2009
  • Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous 1999

Politics

Nick Kohen is known as a critic of Tony Blair's foreign policy for many years. Also, he criticized the Government of Israel and described Zionism as 'colonialism' in the early 2000s.

In 2014 Cohen spoked against Scottish independence and signed a letter to The Guardian in the run-up to the referendum on that issue.

Some people claim, that Cohen is Islamophobic, and even the Muslim Council of Britain has described him as "being in the vanguard of Islamophobia in this country." Cohen called Ecuador a "petro-socialist authoritarian state" and criticized Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange.

In 2011 Cohen supported the intervention in Libya from NATO to oust former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Also, he called for Western military intervention in the Syrian Civil War.

Personality

Cohen is considered intelligent, sharp tongue, and provoking person. He is passioned about his work, and you can see it in all of his articles and books.

Quotes from others about the person

• Tony Blair, once stated that "if I listened to Nick Cohen I would never win an election."
  
  Andrew Adonis, who was a Downing Street policy adviser, said that "no one is better at getting under the Government's skin."
  
  "Nick Cohen’s books are like the best Smiths songs; however depressing the content, the execution is so shimmering, so incandescent with indignation that the overall effect is transcendently uplifting." - Julie Burchill, Prospect.
  
  "Cohen is perhaps the most insightful, thought-provoking and entertaining political writer in Britain today, and comes from the honest tradition of English liberal thought that threads from John Milton to John Stuart Mill and George Orwell." - Telegraph.
  
  "Writing with passion, wit, and erudition, Cohen draws upon the spirit of Orwell and Milton in his call for a fightback against the onslaught on free speech." - Metro.
  
  "Cohen is right about everything that matters." - Standpoint.

Connections

Cohen is married and have a son.

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 194
  2010
• Cohen's official web-site
• Cohen's twitter page