Editor’s Note: Nick Cohen’s best-seller, What’s Left? How The Left Lost Its Way was published by Forth Estate in 2007. It was hailed by Martin Kettle as ‘A roaring polemic of outrage against the moral and political crisis of the …
My book What’s Left? is about deceit and the rich world’s left, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the most deceitful piece to be written about it in any journal in any country should appear in a magazine …
In 1946, George Orwell described a man who is “…thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, …