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Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke

The Guardian

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Notebook I thought selling my car was the right thing to do, but now I wonder why I bothered

When I sold my car, I didn’t expect a pat on the head; I wore my halo on the inside, and that was enough. But I did assume that those who had...

30.03.2024 3

The Guardian

Rachel Cooke

Royal duty should never include the cruel obligation to bare all about illness

It may be that privacy has always been a relative concept, but in an age when its gradations grow ever crazier, their management left almost entirely...

23.03.2024 4

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Rachel Cooke

Notebook Poems on London’s underground: free riches I hold in high esteem

As worries grow over the cost of culture – barely a week goes by without an actor complaining about theatre ticket prices – one form of art...

02.03.2024 3

The Guardian

Rachel Cooke

Notebook The miners’ strike changed Britain, but it didn’t feel like it at the time

How strange and unnerving to find that television is now being made about times I can actually remember. This week, Channel 4 will screen the final...

03.02.2024 4

The Guardian

Rachel Cooke

Why Truelove restored my faith in TV drama

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11.01.2024 2

New Statesman

Rachel Cooke

Notebook Writers left in a bind by British Library cyber-attack, but it remains a closed book

I’m struck by how little coverage there has been of the crisis at the British Library, still paralysed following an attack last October by a...

06.01.2024 6

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Rachel Cooke

Notebook Jesse Darling blaming Margaret Thatcher for arts cuts is as inaccurate as it’s outdated

These retro times. No sooner had I finished stowing the candles I’d bought on the advice of the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, who believes...

09.12.2023 4

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Rachel Cooke

Netflix’s The Crown turns tawdry

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16.11.2023 6

New Statesman

Rachel Cooke

Bread of heaven: sourdough may have had its day, but we’ll always love a loaf

There is a game people like to play, and it goes like this. Potatoes or bread? Cheese or chocolate? Around the table late at night, I usually refuse...

12.11.2023 7

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Rachel Cooke

Notebook Venue to be confirmed... tight security for women’s event is a sign of the times

On Thursday, I attended a sold-out panel event organised by the feminist organisation, Woman’s Place UK. The subject for discussion was women and...

11.11.2023 5

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Rachel Cooke

Notebook Liverpool is spectacular and sometimes strange to walk around, but how it can make the heart ache

H ow good to be in Liverpool after a long time away – and no, I wasn’t there for the Labour party conference. My first stop: Alfred Waterhouse’s...

14.10.2023 3

The Guardian

Rachel Cooke

The BBC’s Jimmy Savile drama is entirely gratuitous

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10.10.2023 10

New Statesman

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Partygate on Channel 4 should inspire a revolution

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03.10.2023 3

New Statesman

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Russell Brand: In Plain Sight made me sick with horror

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18.09.2023 7

New Statesman

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Notebook The Coco Chanel exhibition had me weak at the knees, but the woman remains an enigma

The Chanel exhibition at the V&A, which opened last week to cries of ecstasy from the fashion crowd, is full of extraordinary clothes; the jewellery...

16.09.2023 5

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