Nick Cohen: Is @JeremyCorbyn a pacifist?
08 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: British politics, Nick Cohen, regressive left, war against terror
Nick Cohen on Noam Chomsky and the Far-Left’s lack of solutions and Anti-Semitism
06 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, law and economics, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, war and peace Tags: Nick Cohen, Noam Chomsky, regressive left
Nick Cohen on why he resigned from the Left
18 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, Nick Cohen, Twitter left
Powerful by @NickCohen4: his Christopher Hitchens moment spectator.co.uk/features/96374… http://t.co/pjJrXb7Czn—
John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) September 17, 2015
George Orwell via @NickCohen4 spectator.co.uk/features/96374… http://t.co/9x7svhACRm—
John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) September 17, 2015
More fun to be rude about Corbyn than say what centre-left shd do about him @DAaronovitch £ thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/co… http://t.co/GEYUhhexrx—
John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) September 17, 2015
Nick Cohen gets to the nub of Labour’s vote winning problem
10 May 2015 Leave a comment
Brilliant paragraph by @NickCohen4 on how the Left hate the English. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… http://t.co/NIoQJUhUA0—
Guy Walters (@guywalters) May 10, 2015
Britain is a world leader in exporting creeps » Nick Cohen
05 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, liberalism, politics Tags: Jihadist, Nick Cohen, political correctness
The British recruits who have joined Isis are not exceptions. They flourish in a culture in which it is so commonplace to offer support to authoritarian regimes and movements that few bother to condemn it.
Free speech ought to mean the freedom to challenge and criticise in all except the most tightly defined circumstances. Instead in Britain tolerance has become indifference; a lazy desire to live in our comfortable bubbles.
The dominant culture views vigorous criticism as rude or insensitive – or, to use that popular and completely meaningless school-prefect putdown, “inappropriate.” More often that not, criticism is taken down and used as evidence of the critic’s failings, his or her obsessions and phobias.
We cannot be bothered to challenge fanatics. We say we don’t want to ‘force our views on others’ – as if argument were physical coercion. And if those others leave England to enslave Kurdish women, or applaud kleptomaniac dictators, we are not responsible. We never concerned ourselves with their affairs, nor argued with them for a moment.
Many poisonous plants have bloomed in this dank climate.
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