en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:12:25 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Ben Macintyre Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-25T08:50:23Z 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 rest of the chamber and the public gallery. Ben Macintyre Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-20T12:12:06Z You can already hear the harrumphing from the Long Room, the unmistakable sound of old men in hideous ties standing up for tradition against the vulgar onrush of modernity. Ben Macintyre Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-19T11:40:07Z A wave of bitter collective grief is beginning to break across the land of the stiff upper lip. You can sense it every time another funeral cortège wends through Wootton Bassett. You could feel in the subdued crowd that packed Whitehall on Sunday. Ben Macintyre Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-12T02:32:20Z Click, tweet, e-mail, twitter, skim, browse, scan, blog, text: the jargon of the digital age describes how we now read, reflecting the way that the very act of reading, and the nature of literacy itself, is changing. Ben Macintyre Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-05T10:26:08Z An unquiet ghost stalks the White House Situation Room as Barack Obama, increasingly Hamlet-like, ponders what to do in Afghanistan: it is the spectre of the Vietnam War, America’s enduring historical hang-up.