Adam Tinworth's online journal

Robin Cook is dead:

Former Cabinet minister Robin Cook has died after he collapsed while out hill walking, police have said.
It is believed that he was taken ill near the summit of Ben Stack, near an area known as Laxford Bridge in north-west Scotland.

That's a shame. I might not have agreed with his politics or his attitude to marriage, but I admired the fact that he was one of the few politicains still prepared to resign on a point of principle.