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Rachel Cooke
@MsRachelCooke
Observer writer, Statesman TV critic. Her Brilliant Career; Kitchen Person; Virago Book of Friendship (Norton US 2025). Insta @msrachelcooke Bsky @msrachelcooke
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Mar 12, 2023
    I asked Andrea Leadsom to give me three positive benefits of Brexit. She couldn’t do it
    Andrea Leadsom: ‘I was determined to become prime minister and deliver Brexit myself’
    From theguardian.com
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    May 6, 2023
    I’ve been a newspaper journalist for more than 30 years, and now I’ve done a Coronation, and I was happy and proud to be asked, and I’m with Nick Cave - let us not be too grouchy
    It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion
    From theguardian.com
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Jun 22, 2022
    If you read my piece about Malta on Sunday, here’s the latest development. This is happening RIGHT NOW
    US woman left traumatised after Malta hospital refuses life-saving abortion
    From theguardian.com
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    May 20, 2023
    I was going to leave the men to it. But f*** it. Here’s a long interview with Mart by me, from 2006
    Rachel Cooke talks to Martin Amis
    From theguardian.com
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Feb 27, 2023
    Reviewed this brilliant book by @glosswitch Really hope people read this piece and her book
    Hags by Victoria Smith review – welcome to the age of rage
    From theguardian.com
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Apr 20, 2023
    She was very clever, very kind and very unusual, and somehow this service captured all of it
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Jan 3, 2025
    Oh, David Lodge! He meant so much to me as a teenager: the funniest, the beadiest, the truest. Here's an interview I did with him at home in Brum (aka Rummidge) in 2008
    Nice work: David Lodge | The interview
    From theguardian.com
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Sep 9, 2022
    What a tribute to Jane Bown @observer that it was her picture the Palace released yesterday. She was 81 when she took it. Jane was the best
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Dec 4, 2024
    Anne Robinson on our picket line
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Jun 6, 2024
    Well done everyone! Always good to destroy things others love and really need!
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    Guardian Books
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    Jun 6, 2024
    Baillie Gifford cancels all remaining sponsorships of literary festivals theguardian.com/books/article/…
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Jun 20, 2023
    Claire Tomalin is 90 today. Here’s an old interview by me with her, about which I have very tender feelings. She is amazing. Happy birthday to her
    Claire Tomalin: 'Writing induces melancholy. You're alone, a hermit' | Interview
    From theguardian.com
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Apr 8, 2020
    This is just quietly to say: a series of essays I've written for @BBCRadio3 begins on Easter Monday, 2245, and runs all week. It's called The Odd Woman, and celebrates single women in all their guises: spinsters, career girls, divorcees, widows and (my favourite) maiden aunts
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Dec 4, 2024
    Grayson on our picket line
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    Rachel Cooke
    @MsRachelCooke
    Jan 15, 2023
    I reviewed this very long and plaintive book as best I could
    Spare by Prince Harry review – dry your eyes, mate
    From theguardian.com
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