Spitting Image
Hold the front page! Spitting Image is back! Well, sort of. A new six-part series, from (some of) the team…
Spitting Image
Hold the front page! Spitting Image is back! Well, sort of. A new six-part series, from (some of) the team…
Christ of the coal mines
William Cook reports from the sooty netherworld that made an artist of Vincent Van Gogh
Double vision
In 1933, two new students met on their first day at Glasgow School of Art. From then on they were…
Bali: A bird in the ring…
William Cook goes in search of an island tradition hidden from tourists
Back to the front
Germans are beginning to recognise that they will not always be able to stay out of military conflicts
In search of the Fatherland
As I grew up half German in England in the 1970s, my German heritage was confined to the few curios…
North star
Fortune tellers, pound shops and Orville: it’s easy to take the piss out of Blackpool, but William Cook loves it
Barbados
Driving up the west coast, from Bridge-town to Speightstown, you soon see why people around here call this the Platinum…
Art from another planet
‘Some day we shall no longer need pictures: we shall just be happy.’ — Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter, 1966…
The enigma of Werner Herzog
William Cook watches a new box set from the BFI that reveals the full extent of the German director’s genius – and insanity
Lucerne
When Queen Victoria came here for her summer holidays, Lucerne was already a bustling tourist destination. Today it’s just as…
Napoleon’s last victory
If you visit Waterloo today, there’s no question which general comes out on top
Salzburg
Salzburg is so ridiculously pretty, it’s sometimes hard to take it seriously. Standing on the ramparts of its knights-in-armour castle,…
Camera shy
Award-winner Bill Forsyth tells William Cook why he was happy to walk away from film-making
Eastern Germany
Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, I’ve been pottering around eastern Germany, where my father’s family came from, and…
Estonia’s angst
For eastern Europeans, the Crimean crisis feels very close to home
Making history
In a crowded storeroom at Ikon, Birmingham’s contemporary art gallery, its director Jonathan Watkins is unwrapping the pictures for his…
Cultural capital
Could splashing public money on city of culture initiatives make good business sense? William Cook reports
Peak practice
William Cook visits the Kirchner Museum in Davos, the Alpine town where the German Expressionist found refuge and inspiration
Modern master
William Cook talks to the architect David Chipperfield, whose work has made him a star in Germany
Tangier: Hidden treasure
William Cook finds magic in the alleys of the medina
Cantons and Cantonese
In 1863, the pioneering travel agent Thomas Cook took a group of British tourists on the first package holiday to…
Cantons and Cantonese
In 1863, the pioneering travel agent Thomas Cook took a group of British tourists on the first package holiday to…
Cantons and Cantonese
In 1863, the pioneering travel agent Thomas Cook took a group of British tourists on the first package holiday to…
