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William Cook

One’s watch

William Cook 3 November 2016 9:00 am

Even queens wear Patek Philippe, says William Cook

Nostalgia and nationalism: an erzatz castle to symbolise the new Germany

William Cook 15 October 2016 9:00 am

William Cook on the rebuilding of the Berliner Schloss

The woman who could win when Angela Merkel can’t

William Cook 8 October 2016 9:00 am

The German chancellor risks defeat if she does not stand aside

Going to boarding school at age 16 changed my life

William Cook 10 September 2016 9:00 am

A new school at age 16 changed my life, says William Cook. That’s why I’m doing the same for my son

Haemophilus influenzae, as seen using a Gram-stain technique

Dr Ali Khan’s guide to the new germ warfare

William Cook 2 July 2016 9:00 am

Which disease are you most scared of catching: Ebola or influenza? Before I read this medical memoir, I would have…

Without mankind, dogs wouldn’t stand a chance

What dogs are really up to

William Cook 30 April 2016 9:00 am

Before I read this book, I thought I knew what a dog was. It barks, it wags its tail, it…

Confessions of a Saga lout

William Cook 2 April 2016 9:00 am

Baby boomers like me aren’t giving up irresponsible hedonism as we age. We’re just getting worse at it

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Take the plunge in Baden-Baden

William Cook 26 March 2016 9:00 am

For a nude dip in the spa, high-stakes drama atthe casino, or both, Baden-Baden is a place torelax in the grand old style, says William Cook

American nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll, July 1946

The frightening, fascinating, inspiring story of radiation

William Cook 5 March 2016 9:00 am

About a century ago, scientists started meddling with an unfamiliar force of nature and the rest of us were terrified.…

Map of the Island of Utopia, book frontispiece, 1563

Even Corbyn would find Thomas More’s Utopia too leftwing

William Cook 2 January 2016 9:00 am

Thomas More’s 1516 classic is a textbook for our troubled times, says William Cook

My surreal Christmas in hospital with a dangerously ill child

William Cook 12 December 2015 9:00 am

My surreal Christmas in hospital with a dangerously ill child

The Heckler: those who doubt the brilliance of Phil Collins are snobs

William Cook 12 December 2015 9:00 am

Three boos for those rotten spoilsports who started an online petition against Phil Collins coming out of retirement (there’s already…

On a remote outpost of the Peloponnese, this could be a blueprint to revive the Greek tourist trade

William Cook 5 December 2015 9:00 am

Sitting beneath an ancient olive tree, mugging up on Greek philosophy with Doctor Eleni Volonaki from Kalamata University, I suddenly…

Power tool: Elisabeth Frink carving ‘Dorset Martyrs’, c.1985

The work of Elisabeth Frink is ripe for a renaissance

William Cook 21 November 2015 9:00 am

In a converted barn in Dorset, not far from the rural studio where she made many of her greatest sculptures,…

On a British newspaper, Tintin would have been fired years ago

William Cook 21 November 2015 9:00 am

Reading Tintin when I was a child, in Britain in the 1970s, I always assumed Georges Remi’s creation was just…

Dresden’s Striezelmarkt dates back to 1434

What's so special about German Christmas markets

William Cook 7 November 2015 9:00 am

Why the fuss about German Christmas markets? Surely they’re just schmaltzy shanty towns, full of stuff you’d never dream of…

What is it about Bill Viola’s films that reduce grown-ups to tears?

William Cook 17 October 2015 8:00 am

What is it about Bill Viola's films that reduce grown-ups to tears? William Cook dries his eyes and talks to the video artist about Zen, loss and nearly drowning

Retracing The Thirty-Nine Steps in Buchan’s beloved Borders

William Cook 10 October 2015 9:00 am

To celebrate the centenary of the publication of The Thirty-Nine Steps William Cook travelled to Tweeddale, where John Buchan spent his youthful summers

From top left: Lucian Freud, Rudolf Bing, Stefan Zweig, Walter Gropius, Rudolf Laban, Max Born, Kurt Schwitters, Friedrich Hayek, Fritz Busch, Frank Auerbach, Emeric Pressburger, Oskar Kokoschka

German refugees transformed British cultural life - but at a price

William Cook 3 October 2015 9:00 am

German-speaking refugees dragged British culture into the 20th century. But that didn’t go down well in Stepney or Stevenage, says William Cook

The Alster: Hamburg’s centrepiece

Wealthy, cosmopolitan – and sometimes rough: the secrets of Hamburg (and my grandmother)

William Cook 15 August 2015 9:00 am

‘What was it like growing up in Liverpool?’ a journalist asked John Lennon. ‘I didn’t grow up in Liverpool,’ he…

Richard Long installing the large slate cross, Time and Space (2015), at the Arnolfini

Richard Long interview: ‘I was always an artist, even when I was two years old’

William Cook 8 August 2015 9:00 am

William Cook explores the elemental art and Olympian walks of Richard Long

If Putin comes, the Poles are waiting - a report from Nato's new frontline

William Cook 4 July 2015 9:00 am

Nato’s beefed-up military exercises are impressive – and ominous

Cornelia Parker’s War Room at the Whitworth, Manchester

What are modern museums really for?

William Cook 30 May 2015 9:00 am

Do we really need museums in the age of Wikipedia and Google? William Cook thinks we do but his children don’t agree

Guild houses in the Grote Markt, Antwerp

Antwerp: the compact, charming capital of a country that doesn’t quite exist yet

William Cook 23 May 2015 9:00 am

Napoleon didn’t think much of Antwerp. ‘Scarcely a European city at all,’ he scoffed. If only he could see it…

Incline your upper body slightly forward and place your feet on a low foot rest. Then all the angles are correct

Digesting all the facts — without getting bogged down

William Cook 16 May 2015 9:00 am

Funnily enough, after my editor sent me these three books to read, my guts started playing up. Suddenly, food seemed…

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