Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke trained as a reporter on The Sunday Times. She is now a writer at The Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Articles by Rachel Cooke

Results 121 to 130 of 352

Gunrush

  • 27 August 2009

Even our favourite Jersey Royal potato can’t redeem this preposterous drama

The Tudors

  • 20 August 2009
  • 2 comments

The history is plain wrong and the acting atrocious, but I’m a fan of Tudorland

Louis Theroux: the City Addicted to Crystal Meth

  • 13 August 2009
  • 1 comment

After so many years as a documentary-maker, can Theroux really be this naive?

Single-Handed

  • 06 August 2009
  • 1 comment

Tourist-board myths about rural Ireland are exploded by this murky crime drama

The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron

  • 30 July 2009
  • 2 comments

Are we really only capable of viewing history through the prism of “celebrity”

Desperate Romantics

  • 23 July 2009
  • 5 comments

Sex scenes involving the Pre-Raphaelites and their groupies are no turn-on at all

Freefall

  • 16 July 2009

A moving drama gives tumbling financial dominoes a human face

Getting On

  • 09 July 2009

An edgy new sitcom casts an unflinching eye on how society treats the elderly

Revelations: How to Find God

  • 02 July 2009
  • 2 comments

Jon Ronson rather breezed through his sojourn among the spiritually eager

Famous, Rich and Homeless

  • 25 June 2009
  • 4 comments

Even a topic such as homelessness now gets a novelty on-screen treatment

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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