Geoffrey Robertson

Articles by Geoffrey Robertson

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Obama's first presidency

  • 19 June 2008
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As a brilliant student, the Democratic candidate became the first black editor of the influential Harvard Law Review. What does volume 140 reveal about his future career?

Freedom, soldier

  • 21 May 2007

Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the secret prisons Clive Stafford Smith Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 320pp, £16.99 ISBN 0297852213

Atlantic cowboy

  • 21 March 2005

Lawless World: America and the making and breaking of global rules Philippe Sands Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 352pp, £12.99 ISBN 0713997923

The great socialist shame

  • 11 November 2002

Left-wing thinkers backed policies that tore Aborigine girls from their mothers

The case for tyrannicide

  • 23 September 2002

It is not an international crime to possess nuclear weapons. We need new laws to deal with despots who violate human rights, argues Geoffrey Robertson

It is the fate of a man with a fashionable wife to be her human handbag at events beyond his comprehension

  • 05 July 1999

Pinochet: the press got it wrong

  • 04 December 1998

The Queen is safe, and so is Margaret Thatcher: the Law Lords' ruling need only worry genuine tyrants, explains Geoffrey Robertson

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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