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?
The triumph of electoral sectarianism
Votes on the basis of ethnic identity are reshaping British politics
A question of selection
The Sensible Centrists have made a flawed case against party members choosing leaders
Urban insecurity and conflict
The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution
The subsidy squeeze
Schemes such as HS2 cost billions of pounds while reducing UK productivity
Keir Starmer cannot ignore us
The gender debate is not going to disappear
Wanderer above the sea of clods
The next month might be maddening but it will not be dull
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
Fruitful discussion
Hannah’s Children is a sharp retort to assumptions about barefoot, bread-baking women harassed by scores of children and domineering husbands
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
The soullessness of “social mobility”
Underprivileged young people need culture, not just “skills”
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography