The Lowdown from Nick Cohen

By Nick Cohen

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Get The Lowdown from Nick Cohen as he investigates a world that seems to get ever more crazy, with leading commentators, columnists and politicians.Each week, leading commentator Nick Cohen talks to the country's leading movers and shakers - to cut the through much of the noise and commentary that passes for so much political discourse these days. Nick - a long-term columnist for The Observer and The Spectator - teams up with other commentators, journalists, authors and politicians to make sense of our ever stranger and troubling world. Nick aims to help keep you sane! So please get The Lowdown from Nick Cohen and subscribe to his Substack column - Writing from London. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode Date
Fascist Russia & its religion of war
May 19, 2025
The Tories are a lost tribe
May 12, 2025
Reform's remorseless rise
May 05, 2025
The road to Trumpdom
Apr 28, 2025
Rights in retreat?
Apr 21, 2025
In denial over Trump's treachery
Apr 17, 2025
The Cancel Culture Club
Apr 14, 2025
Is Starmer the right stuff to handle Trump crisis?
Apr 07, 2025
Farage's treason choice - King Don or the UK?
Mar 31, 2025
Tough love but is Labour lost?
Mar 24, 2025
Online authoritarians are poisoning our world
Mar 17, 2025
Is War coming our way?
Mar 10, 2025
What does Putin have on Trump?
Mar 03, 2025
The Big Trump Double-cross
Feb 24, 2025
Defeating Farage & the populist right
Feb 17, 2025
International law & disorder
Feb 10, 2025
Flogging the dead horse of Brexit
Feb 03, 2025
Trump wrecking ball in full swing
Jan 24, 2025
The Coming Trump Terror
Jan 20, 2025
Facing a hostile U.S
Jan 13, 2025
Dark money for dark times
Jan 06, 2025
Buckle up for a bumpy ride -2025 is here!
Dec 30, 2024
That was the year that was!
Dec 23, 2024
Tell Trump, Musk & Farage to get lost!
Dec 16, 2024
The war on digital hate must be won
Dec 09, 2024
The times - they are a-worsening
Dec 02, 2024
Get set for the Farage-Tory Trump Love-in
Nov 25, 2024
Facing down the Trump threat
Nov 22, 2024
Did Woke win it for Trump?
Nov 18, 2024
Mr Tangerine Man & the challenge for Labour - Tom Baldwin
Nov 11, 2024
How were we so wrong about Trump?
Nov 07, 2024
Ep 48: The Tory press is trying to drive us all nuts
Nov 04, 2024
Ep 47: Don't panic! Trump's gonna lose bigly
Oct 28, 2024
Ep 46: A dog at Number 10!
Oct 21, 2024
Ep 45: How Putin corrupted Europe's banks
Oct 14, 2024
Ep 44: How the West is helping Putin defeat Ukraine
Oct 11, 2024
Ep 43: The Tories in Lala Land with Nick Tyrone
Oct 07, 2024
Ep 42: The Brexit Blight with Simon Nixon
Oct 04, 2024
Ep 41: Tories in the bin with Nick Tyrone
Sep 29, 2024
Ep 40: Labour's fight to govern with Steve Richards
Sep 26, 2024
Ep 39: Russia's war of lies & sneers on the West with Peter Pomerantsev
Sep 24, 2024
Ep 38: Labour's chance to salvage the UK with Rafael Behr
Sep 14, 2024
Ep 37: The rise of the Far Right in Germany with Annette Dittert
Sep 07, 2024
Ep 36: A new age of authoritarianism with Anne Applebaum
Aug 03, 2024
Ep: 35 Torygeddon - can the polls be right? With Tory expert Professor Tim Bale
Jun 23, 2024
Ep: 34: The Twighlight of the Tories with Rafael Behr
Jun 16, 2024
Episode 33: Will Hutton on Labour's path ahead
Apr 26, 2024
Ep 31: Pulling Brexit Britain out of its economic death spiral - with economist Danny Blanchflower
Feb 25, 2024
Ep 30: The Tories' by-election blues and the stench of electoral death with Professor Tim Bale
Feb 18, 2024
Ep 29 How Labour wins big & stays in power with former Blair adviser John McTernan
Feb 11, 2024
Ep 28: The Left's failure to confront the Trumpism menace with writer Matt Johnson
Feb 04, 2024
Ep 27: Breaking the Brexit Taboo with Professor Chris Grey
Jan 28, 2024
Ep 26: The Post Office scandal & the curse of British managerialism with economist Chris Dillow
Jan 21, 2024
Ep 25: Crimes against humanity, lies & misinformation in the Gaza conflict with Daniella Peled
Jan 14, 2024
Ep 21: The Tories' perfect storm - how hard will it blow? with Professor Rob Ford
Dec 09, 2023
Ep 20: A Hitch in time? What would Christopher Hitchens have made of today's insanity? With author Matt Johnson
Dec 02, 2023
Ep: The strange death of the Left in the West & in Israel with Professor Shlomo Sand
Nov 19, 2023
Ep 16: War and peace in the Middle East with journalist Daniella Peled of Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Oct 21, 2023
Ep17: SLAPP BACK! How the rich abuse British courts with lawyer & author David Hooper
Oct 21, 2023
Ep 15: Israel, Hamas and the threat to Britain's Jews with antisemitism expert Dave Rich
Oct 12, 2023
Ep 14: The Ascent of Woke with Yascha Mounk
Oct 05, 2023
Ep 12: The Tory South & its revolt against the UK with James Hawes
Sep 23, 2023
Ep 11: The Stagnation nation - is the UK's decline unstoppable? with Profesor Jonathan Portes
Sep 13, 2023
Ep. 9: Wither and whither the Tories? With author & Conservative Party expert - Professor Tim Bale
Jul 24, 2023
Ep 8: From Russia with hate - the hang-up of history with Jade McGlynn
Jul 02, 2023
EP 7: Race in the UK and the US - with Tomiwa Owolade
Jun 26, 2023
Ep 3: Britain's growing food crisis with Liz Webster
May 28, 2023