William Cook

Articles by William Cook

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Overdrawn

  • 27 March 2006

Art - William Cook on the artist who came to hate his best-known creation

The legacy of Bedazzled

  • 25 July 2005

Comedy - The DVD release of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's finest flick reveals why the career of one man soared . . . and the other's didn't, according to their biographer William Cook

Fiction - Diary of a nobody

  • 25 October 2004

Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction Sue Townsend Michael Joseph, 460pp, £16.99 IDBN 0718146891

Absolutely ripping. As the biography of an elusive literary type is published, William Cook eavesdrops on a remarkable conversation

  • 20 September 2004

Wodehouse: a life Robert McCrum Viking, 530pp, £20 ISBN 0670896926

Novel man

  • 28 June 2004

James Bond - William Cook on how Ian Fleming's 007 books are finally catching up with the films

Escape artists

  • 26 April 2004

Exhibition - William Cook on the remarkable flourishing of children's art in a concentration camp

Letter from a lost world

  • 12 April 2004

Scouting for Boys Robert Baden-Powell Oxford University Press, 382pp, £12.99 ISBN 0192805479

The return of the easy rider

  • 29 March 2004

The Raleigh Chopper, like the Space Hopper and the platform heel, was a triumph of form over function. The relaunch of this 1970s classic comes too late for William Cook, who would have kissed more girls and done less work if only he'd been allowed to have one

Picture post

  • 26 January 2004

As he celebrates his 75th birthday, Tintin's international celebrity shows no sign of waning. His escapades as the world's most famous foreign correspondent have elevated the comic book to high art, and provided a chronicle of the 20th century

National healing

  • 19 January 2004

Art - William Cook examines the role of artists in the cultural reconstruction of Iraq

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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