Robin Cook

Robin Cook Photography, beautiful images for the Wedding and Corporate markets

South Downs Living magazine online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Robin Cook Photography was born out of a life–long passion for taking pictures. Following a successful career in the Sussex Police, Robin started a photographic business in 1981 from his garden shed. This developed and diversified into a thriving company, Robin Cook Film Laboratories, which covered the whole of the South of England. Ever on the lookout for new challenges and driven by a love...

2010 Medical Mystery Madness Challenge

Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

2010 Medical Mystery Madness Challenge Hosted by The Twiga Blog This time, it will be a year-long challenge and the goal is to read at least 6 Medical Mysteries . You can list them out ahead of time or list them as you go along. Books can be used for cross-challenges and you can change your list at any time. To sign up, comment on this post . My list: Brain by Robin Cook Fever by Robin Cook Godplayer...

Blogging and blogs

Jess The Dog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

Given all the crap that's flying around about blogs shutting down and MSM dirt-digging, it might be worth considering "why blog at all?" I have to admit I often don't like blogging. It usually means I am annoyed or angry at something I cannot change directly. Except when there is something to laugh at, and there usually is! There's no political agenda behind this blog. I have supported the...

Not Everybody Loves Raymond

The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

Beginning tomorrow, and running through early January 2010, The Rap Sheet will interrupt its usual catch-all succession of “forgotten books” posts in order to roll out a mini-series concentrating on the work of novelist Derek Raymond (1931-1994). Raymond, whose real name was Robin Cook (not to be confused with the still-extant American medical thriller writer ), is frequently credited as...

Let’s meet the Shadow Cabinet.

Radical Blues (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

The general election is unlikely to be much more than six months away and for the last two years the Conservative Party have been consistently riding high in the opinion polls. Despite recent indications that the Tory lead over the Labour Party might be narrowing, it appears highly likely that David Cameron, with his tattooed designer wife, will be crossing the Number 10 threshold sometime in the first...

risk accepted

Final Girl (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

Today marks the opening of the Lifetime floodgates, people, and you only have yourselves to blame ! That's right, horror-related Lifetime movies are officially on the Final Girl docket, and I say it's about durn time. First up: Acceptable Risk (2001), a film that finally unites the Salem witch trials and mold spores together in one positively scintillating tale of medical research gone awry. See, this...

Lord Goldsmith told Tony Blair war to topple Saddam would be illegal.

The Osterley Times (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009

The role of the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, in the Iraq war has always intrigued me. At first he states that the war - without a second UN resolution - would be illegal, only to dramatically change his mind at the last minute and declare the invasion legal. Now, the Chilcot Inquiry have got hold of a letter which Goldsmith sent to Blair eight months before the invasion. Tony Blair was told by...

• Lord Goldsmith told Tony Blair war to topple Saddam would be illegal - The Guardian
• Lord Goldsmith was not bullied into declaring Iraq invasion legal, says Tony Blair - The Guardian

Blair ‘knew WMD claim was false’

Suzie-Q (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009

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 [...]

Want to be doc? Read up on Robin Cook

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.

Bush administration was 'running out of steam' before 9/11, Iraq inquiry told

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....

The ghost of Robin Cook haunts Chilcot’s feast

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...

Obama aides to help Brown? Bring it on!

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...

John McWilliam obituary

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....

Why Blair didn't get the job

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...

Thriller & Suspense Challenge 2010

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....