Robin Cook

You can find lots of tributes to Robin Cook, the former British Foreign Secretary, who died on Saturday while hiking in Scotland. An avowed Socialist, Cook was a student activist from his Marxist days fighting for another Marxist, Salvadore Allende in Chile, although few publications mention the fact. Fewer still will mention his missteps as the British Foreign Secretary.

The stealth Left like to disguise their roots while the hard-to-the-core, open, in-your-face Marxists don't mind a bit telling their story. We'll have to wait for them to fill in the blanks. Meanwhile you can still find copies of Simon Jenkins article in the Times of London, on Robin Cook and the KLA, another terrorist organization beloved by New Labour, and the mess he made of Kosovo -- as Jenkins called it, "Robin Cook's Wasteland."

Like the late Derek Fatchett, MP for Leeds (home of most of the 7/7 London suicide bombers) Cook was another Old Labour Marxist turned New Labour Socialist, except Robin never shaved off the revolutionary chic beard.

Cook's contribution to New Labour was immense even after he left office. From the Guardian obituary.

He made a major effort to reassure anti-war voters - and particularly Muslims - that they could continue to support the party even if they had serious differences with its leadership over Iraq.

Leftwing politics, Marxist MPs joining "New Labour," Islamic funding for the enterprise, radical politics, Islamo-terrorists, and Robin Cook. And the fruits of it all were always very predictable.

State-sponsored Terrorism, like Communism, like Marxism, like Socialism, like Fascism, after all, are European inventions, their periodic flirtation with evil in a continent that long ago gave up believing in God.