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 and politicians.

Each week, leading commentator Nick Cohen talks to the country's leading movers and shakers - to cut the through much of the drivel and commentary that passes for so much political discourse these days. Nick - a long-term columnist for The Observer and The Spectator - will be attempting to make sense of our ever stranger and troubling world with insightful politicians,  journalists and authors. Our mission is to help keep you sane! So please get The Lowdown from Nick Cohen and subscribe to his Substack column - Writing from London.


Episode Date
Episode 33: Will Hutton on Labour's path ahead
Apr 26, 2024
Ep 32: Will the real Keir Starmer step forward? With the Labour Leader's biographer Tom Baldwin
Mar 02, 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 24: How the Radical Right of Reform could destroy the Tories - with Rob Ford
Jan 07, 2024
Ep 23: Praying for Tory wipe-out in 2024 with author & historian James Hawes
Dec 25, 2023
Ep 22: Another fine Tory mess - The great Rwanda farce with immigration lawyer Colin Yeo
Dec 17, 2023
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 18: Boris Johnson's poisoned legacy with historian Robert Saunders
Nov 11, 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 13: Ukraine's path to victory with military strategist Dr Mike Martin
Sep 27, 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 10: Breaking the Brexit Omerta with Peter Foster of the Financial Times
Sep 06, 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 6: Ex-Conservative minister Dr Phillip Lee on how Brexit wrecked the Tories
Jun 18, 2023
Ep 5: Polly Toynbee on class and her family history of radicals
Jun 11, 2023
Ep 4: The English and the end of the United Kingdom
Jun 04, 2023
Ep 3: Britain's growing food crisis with Liz Webster
May 28, 2023
Ep 2: From Kyiv with John Sweeney
May 22, 2023
Ep 1: The liberal despair of Rafael Behr
May 13, 2023