15 Facts About Nick Cohen

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Nicholas Cohen was born on 1961 and is a British journalist, author and political commentator.

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Nick Cohen was a columnist for The Observer and a blogger for The Spectator.

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Nick Cohen is an atheist but says he is becoming "more Jewish".

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Nick Cohen is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.

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Nick Cohen began his career at the Sutton Coldfield News, before moving to the Birmingham Post, later becoming a contributor to The Independent and The Observer in 1996.

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Nick Cohen was a columnist for The Observer and a regular contributor to The Spectator.

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Nick Cohen has written for Time, the Independent on Sunday, the London Review of Books, the London Evening Standard, the New Statesman and The New European.

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Nick Cohen has written for the magazine Private Eye under the pseudonym "Ratbiter".

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The Gazette reported that allegations against Nick Cohen had been made public by the barrister Jolyon Maugham, and that a direct complaint had been made by the journalist Lucy Siegle, which she accused GNM of mishandling.

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Nick Cohen was for many years a critic of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

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Nick Cohen began modifying his views after 2001, advocating hawkish neoconservative support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and becoming a critic of the Stop the War Coalition.

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Nick Cohen supported the NATO-led intervention in Libya to oust former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

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Nick Cohen criticised Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange and called Ecuador a "petro-socialist authoritarian state".

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Nick Cohen has been critical of the CANZUK agreement, calling it "an Anglo-Saxon Narnia".

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Nick Cohen has criticised halal and kosher slaughter and believes they should be illegal.