Michael Cook


    "There will be casualties"

    Michael Cook | 19 Feb 2010
    Euthanasia activists in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands have lost touch with reality.


    Our pick of the films of 2009

    Michael Cook | 1 Jan 2010
    It’s that time of year again: open season on editors, when indignant readers take pot shots at us for our taste in films. But we’re thick-skinned and, in any case, you can make comments!


    Minarets in the Alps?

    Michael Cook | 9 Dec 2009
    Last month the Swiss voted to ban minarets – the prayer towers attached to some mosques -- by a solid majority of clear majority of 57.5 percent of the vote.


    Locked in without a key

    Michael Cook | 3 Dec 2009
    Why are some bioethicists and scientists so sceptical of the incredible story of a paralysed Belgian man who began to communicate after 23 years?


    The straight dope on Agassi

    Michael Cook | 2 Nov 2009
    Who is the real villain in Andre Agassi's revelations of drug abuse on the professional tennis circuit?


    Death panel dudgeon

    Michael Cook | 26 Oct 2009
    A very public disagreement between two prominent American bioethicists shows that they have only themselves to blame for attacks on their profession.


    Endangered species

    Michael Cook | 14 Oct 2009
    Down Syndrome children are disappearing because of the popularity of do-it-yourself eugenics.


    What if he had refused?

    Michael Cook | 12 Oct 2009
    We discovered the draft of another speech responding to the surprise announcement in a rubbish bin outside the White House.

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