Nick Cohen has forged a reputation for himself as the excoriating voice of the far left in his columns in The Observer and the New Statesman. His journalism has appeared in a wide range of publications including the Independent on Sunday, The London Review of Books and the Modern Review. His Channel Four series on the New Elite exposed the nepotism at the heart of Blair’s government. Nick's book about New Labour, PRETTY STRAIGHT GUYS, was published in September 2003. WHAT'S LEFT, about the failures of the political left, was published in 2007 and was shortlisted for the 2008 George Orwell prize for political writing. His second collection of journalism (following CRUEL BRITANNIA), WAITING FOR THE ETONIANS, was followed by the prize-winning polemic on censorship YOU CAN'T READ THIS BOOK. Author Photo: The Observer

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CRUEL BRITANNIA - Nick Cohen has been a consistently sharp and witty scourge of Tony Blair and his bandwagon babes, whether he is tearing into Labour's plans for the prison system or the government's dealings with the...

PRETTY STRAIGHT GUYS - “I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think that I am a...

WAITING FOR THE ETONIANS - Do you remember what life was like before the crash? When level-headed couples were still taking mortgages five times their joint income. When the middle class was divided between the haves and...

WHAT'S LEFT? - What is the existential crisis afflicting the political left? Cut off from their working class power base, alienated from the poor and oppressed in the developing world, tied up in political...

YOU CAN'T READ THIS BOOK - After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism, and the advent of the Web which allowed for even the smallest voice to be heard, everywhere you turned you were told that we were living...