Geoffrey Robinson

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The great gamble

  • 22 October 2009
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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

  • 09 April 2001

Geoffrey Robinson reveals how he twice met his biographer Tom Bower

Mandelson must play the game

  • 23 October 2000

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

  • 27 March 2000

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

  • 14 February 2000

Long neglect is at an end

  • 18 October 1999

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

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James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

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We’re all with the brand

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Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

Bjorn Lomborg

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Cloud control

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