New Statesman -

The great gamble

Geoffrey Robinson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:48:58 GMT

As the Karzai government succumbs to pressure to rerun elections and ever more coalition troops die, it seems increasingly as if we are fighting a futile war in Afghanistan. Making a deal with the Taliban may be the only way to make a clean exit

Pursued by a man with a mission

Geoffrey Robinson — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Geoffrey Robinson reveals how he twice met his biographer Tom Bower

Mandelson must play the game

Geoffrey Robinson — Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:00:00 GMT

A minister has to be a team player. And if he won't abide by the team's rules, the captain will do what a captain must, argues Geoffrey Robinson

The great Rover disaster

Geoffrey Robinson — Mon, 27 Mar 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Geoffrey Robinsonargues that the failure at Longbridge was mainly BMW's, but wonders if the government should be more proactive

I already have an experience of incarceration: when Mike Tyson trapped me in my flat at Grosvenor House

Geoffrey Robinson — Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:00:00 GMT

Long neglect is at an end

Geoffrey Robinson — Mon, 18 Oct 1999 12:00:00 GMT

Special Report: The Private Finance Initiative - The ex-minister's view