steveseagull
Well-Known Member
This is pretty grim. He has been nicknamed 'The Octopus' for a long time now but it seems certain media personalities are untouchable.
Nick Cohen and the Observer
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If you Google nick cohen octopus you'll find tweets about a time he sexually assaulted an admin assistant, and I'm sure there's much more
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Got to admit when it's someone as seethingly unpleasant as Cohen involved it's hard to treat these sort of allegations entirely on their own merits, but it is genuinely important that these come out and people in powerful positions are held to account isn't it.
Not hard to see an upcoming pivot to Spiked or somewhere similar to make a career moaning about being cancelled by the woke lefties is it.
Not hard to see an upcoming pivot to Spiked or somewhere similar to make a career moaning about being cancelled by the woke lefties is it.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Yeah, I was just reading that thread. (I don’t follow Maugham but I follow Gurdasani, so I’d seen her comments previously too).
fairly sure the sex pests don't need this option - they just need to express genuine contrition and they might get to come back in a year or two. If they see any consequences at all of course, mostly they don't.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
I've been seeing allegations about Nick Cohen for literal years. He's certainly acquired a reputation for properly unacceptable behaviour, but the Guardian don't seem to give a shit.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Actually relieved that Maugham has tweeted this tbh. It's about time that someone who can afford to was prepared to put their head above the parapet.
steveseagull
Well-Known Member
Yeah but remember when they all coalesced around John Kay who literally murdered his wife.
This is the first time that I'd heard anything at all about any of all this! to do with Nick Cohen! 
Corrected (very trivially!
) for you.Not of much relevance, obviously
, but just in the interest of accuracy ...... </moves on 
>His articles are published and read on the guardian website. He writes for the guardian.Corrected (very trivially!
Not of much relevance, obviously
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
He writes for The Observer, but then Observer contents appears on the Guardian website.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
He's employed by the Observer, and writes for that paper, even the Guardian describes him as a columnist for the Observer.
cupid_stunt 's thinking is my thinking too -- I suppose though, that I'm old fashioned enough still to think principally in printed newspaper terms, given that I retain the habit of reading the physical things in the pub! 
(But as I said, it's not very relevant at all -- apols for derail!) )
(But as I said, it's not very relevant at all
-- apols for derail!) )Why bother trying to make the distinction on a thread exposing someone as a sex pest? You don't want the sex pest associated with your beloved newspaper? Hard luck there - it's a distinction your beloved newspaper is very happy to blur so they can have content on Sundays and more readers for their sister newspaper's articles.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The Observer doesn't exist online - it's all The Guardian
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Serious thread interrupted by U75 pedantry
While we're on that interruption: I read the Observer every Sunday via the press reader app (so technically online). The app is pretty amazing. You can get a free log in from your local library and it gives you full access to literally hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
Deepti Gurdasani (epidemiologist who posts lots of Covid stuff) is being really openly supportive while a lot more well known people are staying quiet.
editor
hiraethified
Sorry to interject, but the Guardian is nowhere near 'the most widely read newspaper website in the country.'
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it said it was on the article I read earlier - guess it must have been out of date
editor
hiraethified
I don't think the Guardian has ever been the most popular newspaper website - at least not in recent years.
this is the article anyway - it's only from last year: Guardian most widely used newspaper website and app for news, says Ofcom
editor
hiraethified
Maybe it's the app bit that's inflating the Guardian's popularity but every other source I've seen has them nowhere the most popular news website
Leading news websites UK by monthly visits 2024 | Statista
In July 2024, the BBC had a total of 40.3 million monthly visits in the United Kingdom, according to the results of data designed to be nationally representative taken from 10 thousand people across 25 thousand devices measuring website and app usage.
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