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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, columnists and politicians.
Each week, leading commentator Nick Cohen talks to the country's leading movers and shakers - to cut the through much of the noise and commentary that passes for so much political discourse these days. Nick - a long-term columnist for The Observer and The Spectator - teams up with other commentators, journalists, authors and politicians to make sense of our ever stranger and troubling world. Nick aims to help keep you sane! So please get The Lowdown from Nick Cohen and subscribe to his Substack column - Writing from London.
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- Trump - the beginning of the end? · 49 perc · 1. évad 154. epizódTHE DANGEROUS FUTURE LAME PRESIDENCY DUCK DONALD TRUMP In this special pre-mid terms Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen talks to legendary Never Trump commentator and podcaster Charle…
- Burnham needs his own mandate · 8 perc · 2. évad 11. epizódWILL ANDY BURNHAM GO TO THE COUTRY FOR HIS OWN MANDATE FOR CHANGE? In his weekend blast, Nick Cohen criticises his own previous belief that political opponents should simply be…
- The great U.S. betrayal of Ukraine · 49 perc · 1. évad 153. epizódTRUMP IS SELLING OUT UKRAINE TO BUDDY TYRANT VLADIMIR PUTIN - & ALL FOR A QUICK BUCK! In this week's Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen interviews Sir Bill Browder, where they discuss…
- An epitaph on Trump the tyrant · 9 perc · 2. évad 10. epizódAN EPITAPH ON 2 TYRANTS - VLADIMIR PUTIN & DONALD TRUMP In his latest Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen talks about what happens when power passes from autocrats, using Donald Trump…
- Two Party politics could be back! · 45 perc · 1. évad 152. epizódThe UK's Labour Tory Punch and Judy show could be back with a vengeance! In his latest podcast interview, Nick Cohen talks to doyen pollster Peter Kellner, founder of YouGov, to…
- The new Brexit! Leaving the ECHR! · 11 perc · 2. évad 10. epizódTORY OBSESSION WITH LEAVING ECHR COMPOUNDS THE EXTRAORDINARY FOLLY OF BREXIT Nick Cohen argues that the Conservative Party's latest obsession with leaving the European…
- The old UK-U.S. relationship is dead · 38 perc · 1. évad 151. epizódTHE UK MUST NOT WASTE PRECIOUS TIME MOURNING THE DEATH OF THE OLD U.S. In the latest episode of The Lowdown, Nick Cohen talks to David Frum, the former George W. Bush…
- Disaster for the Greens in Holborn · 11 perc · 2. évad 9. epizódThe Holborn by-election result is a disaster for the Greens Nick Cohen delivers his thoughts on the recent Holborn and St Pancras by-election results, where Labour…
- Climate change will change everything · 35 perc · 1. évad 150. epizódCLIMATE CHANGE - COMING TO A TOWN NEAR YOU! In his latest The Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen talks to author & former diplomat Arthur Snell about the growing climate crisis and its…
- Farage & his Fairford fantasies · 11 perc · 2. évad 8. epizódNigel Farage & the radical right have tried to use the strange events at RAF Fairford to feed the politics of hate In his latest Lowdown podcast short, Nick Cohen discusses…
- The U.S. we knew is dead · 48 perc · 1. évad 149. epizódTRUMP'S "EMPIRE OF GRIFT" - WHY THE U.S. WE ONCE KNEW & TRUSTED MAY BE STONE COLD DEAD In this episode of The Lowdown, Nick Cohen talks with author and journalist Anne Applebaum…
- The Crypto threat to democracy · 12 perc · 2. évad 7. epizódHOW CRYPTO BUYS AND SELLS POLITICANS ON THE FAR RIGHT ACROSS EUROPE In this Lowdown short, Nick Cohen discusses the influence of the crypto industry on politics, focusing on how…
- Russia is at war with the UK · 47 perc · 1. évad 148. epizódPUTIN IS AT WAR WITH US - WHETHER WE'RE WILLING TO RECOGNISE THE FACT, OR NOT! WITH LUKE HARDING OF THE GUARDIAN In his latest Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen discusses the…
- Save the UK from corruption · 14 perc · 2. évad 6. epizódTrump has swamped the U.S. in corruption - Nick Cohen argues that the UK must act now to escape the same fate Nick Cohen delves into the history of past political donations as…
- Burnham must fight the far right · 55 perc · 1. évad 147. epizódLabour must confront the far right & its fascism head-on - with Rafel Behr In this week's Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen talks to author and leading Guardian columnist Rafael Behr…
- Burnham must take on the black shirts · 9 perc · 2. évad 5. epizódLabour must take on Farage and the UK's new blackshirts but where is Andy Burnham? Hundreds of anonymous men turn up at Dover dressed in black shirts and balaclavas; Reform…
- Brexit Britain's growing debt crisis · 44 perc · 1. évad 146. epizódThe growing debt crisis of no-growth Brexit Britain In his latest Lowdown podcast, host Nick Cohen interviews economics and geopolitics commentator and columnist Simon Nixon…
- Bursting the Brexit Bubble · 39 perc · 1. évad 145. epizódBURSTING THE BREXIT BUBBLE! HOW BREXITEERS ARE CAUGHT IN THEIR OWN "PURTY SPIRAL" In his latest Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen interviews Roland Smith, one of the few Brexit…
- Israel on the brink · 38 perc · 1. évad 144. epizódISRAEL - THE NEW WEDGE ISSUE OF U.S. POLITICS In this week's Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen talks to the journalist Jo-Ann Mort about Israel, Jews, and anti-Semitism in left-wing…
- The Censors' threat to art · 45 perc · 1. évad 143. epizódTHE CENSORS' THREAT TO ART In his latest Lowdown podcast, Nick Cohen talks to Sally Gimson, editor of Index on Censorship, discussing her report on censorship and the lack of…
