Robin Cook

Articles by Robin Cook

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The Iranian Connection

  • 04 September 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 10 December 1976. This is Robin Cook at his troublemaking best, just two years into his parliamentary career, reducing to a mockery a policy of his own government. He may not have foreseen the ayatollahs but he knew that arming Savak and the Shah was both bad and mad. And 30 years on, Iranian forgiveness is still a very long way off. Cook contributed to the New Statesman over many years. He died last summer. Selected by Brian Cathcart

The view from inside. They looked for weapons of mass destruction, and all they found was lots of marmalade. But George Bush and his team didn't care: after 11 September 2001, they saw international terrorism not as a threat, but as an opportunity to attack Iraq

  • 03 May 2004

Disarming Iraq: the search for weapons of mass destruction Hans Blix Bloomsbury, 304pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747573549 The Price of Loyalty: George W Bush, the White House and the education of Paul O'Neill Ron Suskind Simon & Schuster, 348pp, £17.99 Against All Enemies: inside America's war on terror Richard A Clarke Simon & Schuster, 320pp, £18.99

Modernisation? We didn't mean this

  • 19 May 2003

Robin Cook demands that Tony Blair put forward two simple alternatives for Lords reform: an all-appointed House or one where the majority is elected

Marooned in mid-Atlantic

  • 21 April 2003

Robin Cook argues that the PM must restore Britain's place in Europe by keeping his distance from Bush. But will he now be tempted to signal endorsement of the president's re-election?

Will he film Saddam's next victims?

  • 27 March 2000

Robin Cook, the Foreign Secretary, replies to John Pilger's criticisms of his policy on Iraq

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

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

On Syria

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

The interview

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

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012
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