Robin Cook: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers)
Suzie-Q (Free subscription) | yesterday
By DAVID ROSE, Mail on Sunday, 29th November, 2009 By the time Tony Blair led Britain to attack Iraq, he had stopped believing his own lurid claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, according to an unpublished interview with the late Robin Cook, the former Leader of the Commons who resigned from the Cabinet just [...]
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
If you find your doctor more keen on a Robin Cook thriller than medical case studies, don't blame him, for he is just following the health minister's prescription.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Sir Christopher Meyer also tells Sir John Chilcot's investigation that attitudes towards Saddam Hussein were affected by US anthrax attacks George Bush's administration was seen by many as "running out of steam" on the eve of the "great atrocity" of the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Britain's ambassador at the time, Sir Christopher Meyer, told the Iraq inquiry in London today....
Times Online - Alan Coren (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The most extraordinary aspect of Robin Cook’s resignation speech in 2003 was what followed it. As he sat down, having quit the Cabinet and laid out with forensic precision his opposition to the Iraq war, a swelling wave of applause washed across the floor of the House of Commons. It started among Cook’s antiwar allies on the Labour and Liberal Democrat benches, and swiftly spread to the...
Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Great news for the Tories' election chances: the Wall Street Journal reports that the Labour Party will be receiving assistance from Barack Hussein Obama's campaign strategists. Yep, the same guys whose campaigning brilliance has seen One Term Barry's approval ratings fall to record lows and led to the GOP winning the gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia this month. How conceited are these...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Scottish politician and Labour MP who spent much of his time at Westminster on the opposition benches John McWilliam, who has died at the age of 68 following complications from pneumonia, was Labour MP for the Blaydon constituency for 26 years before standing down at the last election. A telephone engineer by profession, he was one of Westminister's more knowledgeable authorities on matters of technology....
John Rentoul (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
"Never in a month of Sontags." The definitive account by Eric Joyce (right), the Labour MP who was Tony Blair's representative at the Party of European Socialists - the EU grouping of left-of-centre parties: It was led then, as now, by former Danish PM Poul-Nyrup Rasmussen. There’s been some kind of law passed in Denmark requiring every Danish PM to be called Rasmussen (they’re...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010 Hosted by Book Chick City Timeline: 01 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010 Rules: To read TWELVE (12) thrillers in 2010 Details: You don't have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront then you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go....
George Szirtes (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
I know I cannot be a revolutionary because I am perfectly capable of liking those I disagree with and disliking those I agree with. The basis of such likes is not to do with opinion, it is with the way opinion is delivered. It is to do with intangibles. It is not to do with wanting them as friends or desiring to spend time with them, particularly not on any desert island with only one of them for company,...
Craig Murray (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Finally I have indisputable documentary evidence that the British government had a positive policy of using intelligence from torture in the War on Terror, and that the policy was personally directed by Jack Straw . Here are the minutes of the meeting at which I was told this: Download file All references to the CIA and MI6 have been literally cut out, but the meaning is till perfectly unmistakeable...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
2010 A to Z Challenge J anuary 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 . How does this reading challenge work? Choose the option that works best for you... Authors -- Read alphabetically by author. Commit to 26 books. Titles -- Read alphabetically by title. Commit to 26 books. Authors & Titles -- Commit to reading 52 books Authors A - Adams, Douglas - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency B - Bradbury,...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Celebrate the Author Hosted by Becky of Becky's Book Reviews 12 Books, 12 Months January - December 2010 The challenge is designed to “celebrate” author birthdays. Choose one author for each month of the year. Read at least one book a month. 12 authors. 12 birthdays. If you like, you can read MORE than that. Read the books IN ANY ORDER YOU LIKE. As long as you've got one book representing...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Original TBR Challenge Hosted by MizB's Reading Challenges ** Pick 12 books – one for each month of the year - that you’ve been wanting to read ( that have been on your “ T o B e R ead” list ) for 6 months or longer, but haven’t gotten around to. ** OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 “Alternates” ( books you could substitute for your challenge books, given that...
The Auburn Beat - al.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
(The Huntsville Times/Robin Cook)Auburn running back Mario Fannin breaks free for yardage Saturday during the Tigers' 63-31 victory over Furman.Auburn broke into the USA Today coaches' poll at No. 25, but remains just outside the Associated Press rankings after a...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Monthly Mixer Mele Hosted by Jen's Book Talk All you have to do is read a book that begins with a letter of each month or read a book that begins with the authors name (first or last name, doesn’t matter). There are 74 letters so you will have to have 74 different books to complete the challenge. Books can however be used to complete other challenges. You don’t have to do the months in...
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