So Farewell, Nick Cohen

[Nefertiti2]

• Not dead, but retired on “medical grounds”
  
  Which of course, have nothing whatsoever to do with the multiple complaints by women who worked with him the Observer about having been harassed by Nick Cohen.
  
  He was always devious- as can be seen in his relentless support of the Blair Iraq intervention, which cost so many hundreds of thousands of lives.
  
  The silence which his “retirement” received from so many who used to describe his articles as “brilliant” is telling.
  
  Still, we can all rejoice that we won’t have to struggle through his tedious articles which (e.g.)described Corbyn's labour as “The Corbyn gun club does not only have women at the end of its firing range.”
  
  May he be condemned to photocopy alone for the rest of his life. (this was initially posted in Football by mistake)
• ChrisJ kindly pointed out that I should have put this in 'World' (which I'm now doing ) and @Satchmo Distel observed that these "Medical grounds being inability to control his hands when near women's bodies"
  
  I also posted a link to commentator Mic Wright on Cohen

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1619099067774009347?s=20&t=_QfLhMJ2iRq0-K0bVyqkhA

[DCI Harry Batt]

Wright's piece is good.

[diggedy derek]

How often do columnists retire on medical grounds? Very, very, very, very, very, very seldom. They stop doing it so frequently. But very rarely is it "that's it, I will now be stopping forever".

[Nefertiti2]

How often do columnists retire on medical grounds? Very, very, very, very, very, very seldom. They stop doing it so frequently. But very rarely is it "that's it, I will now be stopping forever".

He's got a substack, so he's not stopping at all

[Nefertiti2]

more on the Press Gazette the journalists paper

https://twitter.com/lucysiegle/status/1619618741389774848?s=20&t=JOe0rIwIG8LiNdYa_bZakA

[diggedy derek]

He's got a substack, so he's not stopping at all

Oh god

[Mr Delicieux]

The oily octopus has the begging bowl out:

[Mr Delicieux]

At least he's well enough to be able to do that, bless him.

[Nefertiti2]

more on the Press Gazette the journalists paper

https://twitter.com/lucysiegle/status/1619618741389774848?s=20&t=JOe0rIwIG8LiNdYa_bZakA

Here is Jolyon Maugham’s detailed analysis of the changes

https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1619582166362619904?s=21&t=5n1nTXekCh-EXZYJaYQBgA

[Nefertiti2]

Siegle's gift for snark remains undamaged

https://twitter.com/lucysiegle/status/1619639290912477184?s=20&t=15h-do76MTL4Bbqyrs-MYg

[Snake Plissken]

The oily octopus has the begging bowl out:

In the great tradition of people who know exactly what is coming, he turned off replies. The Graun trained him well.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1620729308456304640?s=20&t=QWXlu7QssWtsgHAXnYdyGw

Private Eye joins the omerta

[E10 Rifle]

I am glad Nick Cohen no longer works for Guardian News and Media

[Nefertiti2]

important thread

Maughma alleges that essentially no paper will report because their own Cohen(s) may be named

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1624325937021042688?s=20&t=onP0sdT5mxWm6sW62y6DBw

[ursus arctos]

That seems incredibly plausible and Maugham provides significant circumstantial evidence.

It is particularly dispiriting that the best such evidence is for the FT.

[Satchmo Distel]

The oily octopus has the begging bowl out

This is extremely unfair to octopuses, whose worst offence is only to follow shit football teams.

[Gangster Octopus]

Careful now...

[Nefertiti2]

Private Eye usually so keen to dish Fleet Steet dirt somehow can't mention what happened to its (former?) contributor

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1625798732963799042?s=20

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

It's almost like there's a systematic market failure in the marketplace of ideas.

[Mr Delicieux]

He's managed to recover enough to knock out the occasional column, bless him

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/WordMercenary/status/1627679453928202243?s=20

[Nefertiti2]

Got a settlement apparently-

https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1631413701851971584?s=20

[DCI Harry Batt]

There'd always be a settlement of some kind. I'm not sure why "Ed" thinks that relevant to Private Eye's collusion in the hiding of Cohen's disgusting behaviour.

[Nefertiti2]

British Journalists look after their own

https://twitter.com/jane__bradley/status/1663442931150094341?s=20

[Nefertiti2]

Seven women told The New York Times that Mr. Cohen had groped them or made other unwanted sexual advances over nearly two decades. Four insisted on anonymity, fearing professional repercussions. In each case, The Times reviewed documents or otherwise corroborated their accounts.

Ms. Siegle recounted Mr. Cohen grabbing her bottom in the newsroom around 2001. Five other women described similar encounters at pubs from 2008 to 2015. One said Mr. Cohen had pressed his erection against her thigh and kissed her uninvited when they met to discuss her career. A seventh said Mr. Cohen had repeatedly offered to send her explicit photographs in 2018 while she worked as an unpaid copy editor for him.

Mr. Cohen’s reputation was widely known in the newsroom, according to 10 former colleagues, both male and female. One former colleague said she and other female journalists had used a different entrance to a pub to avoid being groped by him. Another woman said she had avoided the bar downstairs from the newsroom after Mr. Cohen grabbed her knee during work drinks.

In a phone interview, Mr. Cohen said he did not have the “faintest idea” about Ms. Siegle’s accusation and questioned why she had waited so long to report it. He said the conversation with the copy editor was “joking” among friends. He blamed their accusations on a campaign by his critics, including advocates for Russia and for transgender rights.