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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 . Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'
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The Lowdown from Nick Cohen is hosted by Nick Cohen. The show has published 151 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Burnham needs his own mandate" (1 November 2026, 8 minutes), "The great U.S. betrayal of Ukraine" (26 October 2026, 49 minutes), and "An epitaph on Trump the tyrant" (24 October 2026, 9 minutes).
The Lowdown from Nick Cohen publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 151 episodes.
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Nick Cohen hosts The Lowdown from Nick Cohen, a news podcast with 151 episodes published.
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Episode #11
WILL 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 removed from power without considering...
Episode #153
TRUMP 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 Browder's experiences with Russian...
Episode #10
AN 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 as a primary example. The great...
Episode #152
The 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 discuss the current state of British...
Episode #10
TORY OBSESSION WITH LEAVING ECHR COMPOUNDS THE EXTRAORDINARY FOLLY OF BREXIT Nick Cohen argues that the Conservative Party's latest obsession with leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is stupid, wrong...
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THE 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 speechwriter turned leading “Never Trump”...
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The 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 comprehensively defeated the Green Party candidate, and...
Episode #150
CLIMATE 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 global impacts. Aftera summer of 2026 &...
Episode #8
Nigel 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 Nigel Farage's extraordinary and irresponsible...
Episode #148
TRUMP'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 about her recent essay in The Atlantic...
Episode #7
HOW 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 crypto billionaires have been buying...
Episode #148
PUTIN 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 Kremlin's current Russian influence operations...
Episode #6
Trump 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 he argues that the UK must do all it can...
Episode #147
Labour 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 about the interconnectedness of...
Episode #5
Labour 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 leader and Brexit con artist Nigel Farage...
Episode #146
The 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 about the UK's national debt crisis and...
Episode #145
BURSTING 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 supporters who has publicly admitted the Brexit...
Episode #144
ISRAEL - 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 politics. Jo-Ann Mort,who is also former...
Episode #143
THE 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 political drama in the British arts scene...
Episode #142
HOW TRUMP'S U.S. STUPIDLY ENGINEERED ITS OWN HUMILIATION This week, Nick Cohen interviews Phillips O'Brien, a professor of strategic studies at St. Andrews University, about the ongoing conflict between the United...
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