Had to make this today after reading that (genuine) quote from Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye. Nick Cohen has been a known creep for decades. He got his nickname “the octopus” due to how frequently he’d grope female colleagues, safe in the knowledge that his power and prestige would protect him Cohen’s political views are also rancid: he pushed for the Iraq war, is pro-Israel, anti-trans and hates the left, and would write about all these things in The Observer, The Spectator and Private Eye. The following is from a New York Times article by Jane Bradley about how a Financial Times article about these allegations was spiked to protect both Nick Cohen and The Observer/Guardian