Posts Tagged ‘Nick Cohen’
#MeToo & #Guardian Hypocrisy – Why did the Guardian Protect Nick Cohen, who for 20 years Sexually Abused Young Female Journalists?
How does Kath Viner & Jonathan Freedland Square #MeToo with paying off Cohen and Penalising the Victims? #MeToo in the media Good Law Project As the old saying goes, hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue and The Guardian’s hypocrisy is indeed a vice. If there was an award for the most rabidly racist, war-mongering, anti-Corbyn ‘journalist’ the…
Read MoreTen Year’s Hard Labour is the most important account yet of the defeat of the Corbyn Project
Chris Williamson describes how the Labour Right, with the complicity of Momentum, allowed the fake ‘Anti-Semitism’ narrative to destroy the Left Ten Year’s Hard Labour – Chris Williamson, Lola Books, 2022, pp. 394 There is a tendency amongst many on the left to engage in an uncritical adulation of Jeremy Corbyn now that we see how awful…
Read MoreLabour’s Election Campaign – Expect the Worst – Hope for the Best
Labour’s Election Campaign – Expect the Worst – Hope for the Best Corbyn has only himself (& Seamus Milne) to blame for Labour’s predicament This article was first printed in the Weekly Worker In previous elections I had little difficulty in predicting the outcome. It was clear in 2015 that Ed Miliband’s ‘austerity lite’ would fall fail.…
Read MoreThe Disappearance of Investigative and Critical Journalism – The Guardian’s ‘Slow Witted Viciousness’
From ‘Anti-Semitism’ to Economics – Good Journalists are being replaced by Precocious Windbags & Puffed-up Pundits You don’t hear too much of John Pilger in the media these days. There was a time when his films, on the Ethiopian famine or Year Zero about Pol Pot’s Cambodia or Death of a Nation on the genocidal…
Read MoreThe Talk about a famous Black journalist that the Guardian and Nick Cohen Tried to Ban
Kerry Ann-Mendoza of the Canary Defies the NUJ to Give the Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture 2018 Kerry and Tony G! Last Tuesday I attended the Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture at the Sands Film Studios in Rotherhithe, London. This was the 11th annual lecture and the most controversial. Claudia Jones, who died at the early age of…
Read MoreWill Nick Cohen, the Guardian’s Hapless Islamaphobe, Ever Get Something Right?
When Nick Cohen Makes a Prediction It’s Safe to Assume the Opposite Will Happen! If there’s one thing that I won’t forgive Nick Cohen for it’s forcing me to defend Jon Lansman, Momentum’s owner and dictator. Yet that is the position that he put me in on 18th August 2018 when The Spectator printed my…
Read MoreThe Incremental Coup – How the Labour Right Successfully used ‘anti-Semitism’ to attack Corbyn
Lansman’s Momentum Hoists the White Flag and Surrenders to Chuka Ummuna’s narrative When the General Election was called last year I was one of the few people to predict that Corbyn might achieve a hung parliament. This at a time when the Tories were ahead by up to 24% in the polls. On 20th April…
Read MoreA Friendly Question or Two to Jonathan Freedland – Does the Guardian have a Death Wish?
A once in a life-time offer – I will replace Owen Jones AND Nick Cohen at half the price! Dear Jonathan, Yours and Katherine Viner’s stewardship of the Guardian reminds me of that saying of Euripides, or was it Sophocles? Those whom the gods seek to destroy they first drive mad.’ At a time…
Read MoreThe Guardian and Jonathan Freedland’s tedious Campaign against Corbyn
Why no self-respecting socialist or Labour supporter should buy the Guardian On and on they go. I didn’t realise just how bad the Guardian campaign has been until someone had the bright idea of doing a compilation. An incessant drip drip of poison against Jeremy Corbyn allied to a monotonous one-sided propaganda campaign about non-existent…
Read MoreLansman’s Scorched Earth War Against Democracy in Momentum
Owen Jones – the Nick Cohen of Tomorrow According to his spin merchants, Lansman is defending the youthful activists of Momentum against their Trotskyist elders! Running with the hares and hunting with the hounds – Jones is on the side of the Palestinians and the Zionists It was not so long ago that Owen…
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