Sir Andrew Cook
Sir Andrew Cook CBE is owner and chairman of William Cook Holdings Limited, one of Europe’s leading steel and engineering companies. He has a lifelong interest in history and politics, and a strong affection for Switzerland, where he lives.
Who champions the little guy now that Trump is gone?
Sir Andrew Cook, chairman of leading British manufacturer William Cook Group, bemoans the fact that the parties of the left no longer stand up for the little guy
Despatch from St Moritz
Why are the international super-rich insufficiently grateful to the British?
Godfather of the Reformation
Cranach’s impact on the Reformation would have been impossible without his earlier success as a secular artist
Starmer and the satirists
Will British comedians be as tough on the new government as on the last?
Labour could cause irreversible damage in government
Don’t give Keir Starmer a blank cheque to rewrite British society
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
Is Beer the solution to all of life’s problems?
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — And How The World Lost its Mind. By Dan Davies
Bloody opposition
The Tories have left Britain in the hands of managers, judges and technocrats
Whistler in black and white
A video artwork that aims to critique Rex Whistler’s controversial mural in Tate Britain lacks context and nuance
Anarchy in the UK
Until the Siege of Sidney Street, anarchism had been tolerated in England
Reclaiming freedom in the arts
Great art that speaks of today cannot be made in a climate of fear