Christopher Booker

Profile: Full name: Christopher John Penrice Booker Area of interest: Politics and Society (esp. British officialdom and EU institutions and issues), Environment (esp. countryside & farming) Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Telegraph Email: christopher.booker@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker Blog: Representation: Networks:

Biography: About: A regular columnist in the Sunday Telegraph, the first editor of Private Eye, a Spectator contributor and a prolific author who has published more than ten books. Has made a life's work of challenging the scientific consensus on a broad range of issues, in particular global warming. See more here (carbonbrief.org/profiles/christopher-booker) Education: Shrewsbury School; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Career: A founding editor of satirical magazine Private Eye, remaining a contributor and joke writer; longstanding columnist with the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph Current position/role: Commentator also writes/has written for: contributes to the Daily Mail, see articles Other roles/Main role: Author Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Speech to the Bruges Group: Hamlet Without The Prince: The Anglosphere Minus One, 25th April 2006 Conservative Party Fringe Meeting with Douglas Carswell MP: The EU: Options for Britain (podcast & text), 2007 Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Julie Burchill: The filthy truth about asbestos, The Guardian, 2002 (re: "the great asbestos scam") George Monbiot: The patron saint of charlatans is again spreading dangerous misinformation, The Guardian, 23rd September 2008 "The Great Moonbat is the one who's spreading 'misinformation' about asbestos" Christopher Booker defends himself against an 'extraordinary tirade' by George Monbiot Fabricated quote used to discredit climate scientist - Sir John Houghton explains to Steve Connor how global warming sceptics have misrepresented his views, The Independent, 10th February 2010 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: The Neophiliacs: Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties, 1970 OCLC 79984 A looking-glass tragedy: the controversy over the repatriations from Austria in 1945, 1997 OCLC 38447353 The Great Deception, 2003 OCLC 54471199 The Seven Basic Plots: why we tell stories, 2004 OCLC 57131450 (reviews The plots thicken... & The simple magic of storytelling) Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth, 2007 ISBN 0826486142 Latest work: The Real Global Warming Disaster, 2009 ISBN 9781441110527 Speaking/Appearances: Greenbelt Festival Cheltenham Racecourse 22nd/25th August 2008 Debate:

The Sunday Telegraph: Column name: Christopher Booker's Notebook Remit/Info: Politics and Society: "Christopher Booker... exposes the ever-growing power of the European Union in Brussels, the excesses of mad officialdom and 'scares' - from BSE to global warming" Section: News Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: christopher.booker@telegraph.co.uk Website: Telegraph.co / Christopher Booker Commissioning editor: Day published: Sunday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: 2012 On the euro, and on global warming, it turns out the 'thought criminals' were right - Heretical thoughts about the EU and about climate change, long-suppressed, are becoming the received wisdom - 20th May Water shortage is now policy - The water problem centres on government failings - 13th May Climate change has got WWF bamboozled - WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species - 6th May 'Europe' alienates us all - as foretold 40 years ago - With chilling candour, a paper from a senior government official laid out the difficulties that Britain would face in the proposed Common Market - 29th April 'He’, 'she’ – it’s all the same to the family 'expert’ - Two more glimpses into the surreal underworld of our 'child protection' system - 29th April Getting gas out of rock, or putting it in, the greens get it wrong both ways - The push for 'carbon capture' and the row over 'fracking' are equally misguided - 22nd April In family courts, 'experts' are paid to get it horribly wrong - The terrible case of Rohan Wray and Chana Al-Alas reveals some of the horrors of our 'child protection' system - 22nd April In the eyes of Nature, warming can't be natural - Since the fading belief that the world is in the grip of runaway man-made global warming still threatens us with the biggest bill in history, it is rather important to know how far we can trust the science which is said to support that belief - 15th April Is our Government planning to make GCHQ the 'Big Brother' for Europe? - GCHQ's giant facility is the only place in Europe capable of housing the projected cybercrime operation - 8th April Postage and pasties: some more fine messes that Brussels has got us into - Why are our politicians so keen to hide the hand that our government in Brussels has had in the latest fiascos? - 1st April Why do our family courts rely on 'hired gun’ experts? - Recent revelations bring the authority of expert witnesses called by social services into severe doubt - 25th March Water: why we are paying more and getting less - Storage capacity has barely increased in 20 years, though population has risen by 10 per cent - 18th March Dubious 'experts' are paid to tear families apart - A new report condemns the shoddy standards of psychologists' reports in our family courts - 18th March Water: why we are paying more and getting less - Storage capacity has barely increased in 20 years, though population has risen by 10 per cent - 18th March How much profit will a turbine turn? - Developers of wind farms offer 'sweeteners' to local communities, but they may be tiny compared to the revenues - 4th March The Gleick affair is further proof of the warmists' endless credulity - Dr Peter Gleick provides more evidence that the supporters of the Cause will stop at nothing - 26th February The European project is splitting apart at the very core - A gulf is growing between France and Germany over the future of the eurozone - 19th February A mother on a visit to the UK loses three children to social workers - As the media wake up to the soaring numbers of children being taken into care, Christopher Booker reports a particularly disturbing case - 12th February The EU, 'mega-ships’ and a paper trail of warnings that still remains - The scientific papers that reveal the design flaw of the Costa Concordia can still be found on the internet - 5th February How I woke up to the untruths of Barack Obama - The President's State of the Union address was as weaselly as could be, especially about his role in the sub-prime crisis - 29th January The EU ignored years of expert warnings on cruise ship safety - The disaster of the Costa Concordia was foreseen in studies commissioned by the EU - 22nd January The continent is the final destination for HS2 - The London to Birmingham high-speed rail link is part of a Europe-wide scheme dreamed up Jacques Delors back in 1993 - 15th January Chris Huhne is piling on the make-believe - The Government's latest report on our future energy supply is a tissue of unproved assumptions and wishful thinking - 8th January Europe cannot save the euro, nor save itself from the euro - The deflated apparatchiks of the EU watch powerlessly as a tragedy unfolds - 1st January

Articles: 2011 We'll soon forget the David Cameron 'veto' that never was - The Prime Minister's 'stand' in Brussels may be the most misrepresented event in recent political history - 18th December The BBC's myth-makers serve up a double helping of propaganda - Whether it's polar bears or social workers, all is not as it seems at the BBC - 18th December British social workers pursue a harsh foreign policy - The horrors of 'child protection' as it is often practised now - particularly on foreign children - would be a theme for a latter-day Dickens - 11th December 'Frozen Planet' gave us beautiful images, but an unbalanced picture - Sir David Attenborough's latest series went off course when it came to the state of the poles - 11th December The EU dream and Kyoto will expire together - 'Only 10 days left to save the euro' strikes a distinct historical echo - 4th December Is the global warming scare the greatest delusion in history? - The scare over man-made global warming is not only the scientific scandal of our generation, but a suicidal flight from reality - 27th November The BBC's hidden 'warmist' agenda is rapidly unravelling - Since 2006, the BBC has relentlessly promoted the global warming orthodoxy as a pressure group in its own right - 27th November The EU's architects never meant it to be a democracy - The rise of a "technocracy" was always part of the plan for Europe - 13th November Chris Huhne was as wrong about the euro as he is now about the wind - The energy secretary was an ardent advocate of the single currency before he got turned on to windmills - 6th November The real scandal of our care system is still overlooked - A new report into our child protection system ignores its glaring shortcomings - 6th November Girl, 14, arrested by four police for 'assaulting’ them - Once again the police act as shock troops for social worker - 24th October Chris Huhne condemns us all to fuel poverty - Another monumentally expensive project to 'fight climate change' has bitten the dust - but the Energy Secretary still doesn't see the light - 23rd October The courts continue to deny rights to stolen children - Children are regularly denied their right to speak on their own behalf in court - 16th October We shouldn’t let our councils cheat us out of £25 billion a year - Councils now make as much money out of extra charges as they do from the council tax - 9th October The EU dream has turned into a nightmare - The euro project was always based on a colossal act of make-believe - and now it is unravelling - 2nd October How bailiffs reap the fraudulent rewards of their 'phantom visits' - Charges for bailiffs' visits that are never made may be costing businesses and householders tens of millions of pounds - 25th September Couple denied legal help while lawyers make £1m removing their children - Their English is poor, they are reduced to tears by their inability to understand what is going on in court, yet they are denied help in presenting their case - 18th September Wind farms: the monuments to lunacy that will be left to blot the landscape - These pointless monstrosities will continue to proliferate until the Government sees sense - 11th September A red tape nightmare has hit our village cricket club for six - The demands made on our little village cricket club in Litton, Somerset, reflect wider problems with the way Britain is run - 4th September Council salaries: the 'looters' have hit the town hall - Council officials have been spotted leaving the premises, not with trainers and TVs, but hundreds of thousands of pounds - 28th August Judge Wall, the secrecy rules, and another stinging attack - The most senior judge in the Family Division, Lord Justice Wall, takes an unprecedented step - 28th August The BBC steadfastly avoids the facts about the wind farm scam - David Shukman's reports on energy policy for the BBC failed to explain the true lunacy of the Government's plans - 21st August UK riots: The Blitz hero who shows us what today’s Britain has lost - The gutsy spirit of wartime London has been sadly lacking in recent days - 14th August Child protection' tears mother and son apart after 14 years - English social workers pursue yet another mother who had taken refuge in Ireland with her child - 7th August Child protection' wreaks havoc on a loving family once again - How a mother who fled to Ireland to save her baby was caught on her return - 30th July Steve Jones tells the BBC: don't give 'denialists' so much air-time - In his report for the BBC Trust, Steve Jones actually attacks the BBC for having too little global-warming bias - 24th July Child protection system tears two more happy families apart - Two shocking cases of children taken into care on the flimsiest pretexts - 17th July First trucks, now trains: how EU rules kill off our industries - Why EU procurement rules have cost our last train-making firm a £1.5bn contract - 10th July Proof that the Government is tilting at windmills - The policy on which our national energy strategy is now centred is a ludicrously expensive, self-defeating joke - 3rd July Where Greece goes now, we will soon follow - Last week, the deficit on our Government's annual spending widened yet again, to £143 billion. We cannot avoid a reckoning for ever - 26th June The IPCC declares Greenpeace in our time - The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is packed with even more hot air than usual - 19th June Industry begins to count the true cost of 'climate change' - Heavy industry in Europe faces a crippling bill for global warming - 12th June How our judges deny human rights to children taken into care - The right to family life - invoked to get a burglar out of prison, or a celebrity granted a super-injunction - is denied to many children - 5th June War hero Pex wins right to stay - After a campaign supported by the Telegraph and its readers, Fijian soldier Epeli Uluilakeba, who was wounded in Iraq, will be allowed to stay in Britain - 28th May The talk of David Cameron's leadership qualities obscures the mess he's leading us into - As pundits chatter of Cameron's greatness, Britain's national debt spirals out of control and it has no workable energy policy - 22nd May A judge attacks my 'one-sided' child protection stories - but it cuts both ways - The judgment that Mr Justice Bellamy has published makes for illuminating reading, and not just for its attack on me - 15th May The farce of an AV referendum ignored the point of who really governs us - The voting system is not the flaw in our 'democracy': it's the abdication of our powers to unelected politicians in Brussels - 8th May Vicky Haigh flees the babysnatchers - Using parliamentary privilege, John Hemming MP has named renowned jockey and trainer Vicky Haigh as the woman threatened with imprisonment for speaking to him - 1st May The judge has forbidden anyone to tell me what he wanted me to hear - The secrecy of the family courts system has reached a bizarre new extreme - 24th April A mother is threatened with imprisonment for talking to her MP - The high-handed power of social workers and the courts, working in tandem, threatens even the privileges of Parliamen - 17th April What happens when the great fantasies, like wind power or European Union, collide with reality? - There's a pattern in the unravelling of make-believe projects, whether it's wind power or the euro - 10th April The Budget’s green dreams will leave us powerless - The Government's obsession with its babyish green dreamworld will force the closure of power stations, increase our electricity bills and damage vital industries - 3rd April All the talk of 'cuts' hides a real rise in Government spending - The fine print of George Osborne's 2011 Budget hid an increase in state spending even greater than that predicted in the October spending review - 27th March Another 'horrible’ case for you, Minister - The scandal of seizures by social workers of children from responsible parents is bigger than the Children's Minister has stated - 20th March Bob Ward boobs again over rainfall records - The attack dog for the warmists, Bob Ward, came back for another bite, and missed again - 20th March The Supreme Court has given the asbestos scam a great big hand - A rulling by Lord Phillips, president of the Supreme Court, could open the floodgates for an asbestos bonanza - 13th March Parents denied a voice in court against the child-snatchers - Lord Justice Thorpe was 'aghast' at the way children had been removed from their parents by a county court. But such outrages are an everyday procedure - 6th March Unscientific hype about the flooding risks from climate change will cost us all dear - The warmists have sound financial grounds for hyping the dangers of flooding posed by climate change - 27th February Britain's system of rubbish collection is a marvel of waste and mess - Why do our bureaucrats misuse an EU directive to create an unholy mess with our rubbish - 20th February Britain's bureaucrats trump the Indians - Indian officialdom pales beside the work of Britain's own bureaucracy when it comes to extracting my money - 20th February The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs notice? - The collapse of the warmist position on climate change has not impinged on politicians in Britain or Brussels - 13th February Will the Government come to the defence of an Iraq war hero? - Fijian soldier Epeli Uluilakeba, wounded in the same blast that killed Pte Phillip Hewett, now faces deportation - 13th February Christopher Booker: fifty years at the Sunday Telegraph - It seems very odd to be stumbling on to the stage as The Sunday Telegraph’s “oldest living inhabitant” - 6th February My long crusade for common sense - To mark The Sunday Telegraph's 50th anniversary, Christopher Booker, its longest-serving columnist, looks back on 21 years of campaigning against a broken system - 6th February The persecution of the Bushmen must stop - Botswana's Bushmen have won the inalienable right to live undisturbed in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. That country's government must now obey the rule of the law - 6th February The costs of the EU's Galileo satellite system, are still skyrocketing - Galileo, the intended rival for the GPS satellite system, is one of the EU's most megalomaniac follies - 23rd January A mother's fall causes her to lose her child - A woman who was temporarily paralysed in a fall had her baby taken into care while she lay in hospital - 16th January The Met Office fries while the rest of the world freezes - As the Met Office desperately tries to salvage its reputation, another of this 'warm' winter's ice disasters is unfolding in the Sea of Okhotsk - 9th January What we need in 2011 is an opposition - On all the most important issues effecting our lives, our politicians are in deluded agreement - 1st January

Articles: 2010 The green hijack of the Met Office is crippling Britain - The Met Office's commitment to warmist orthodoxy means it drastically underestimated the chances of a severe winter - 26th December Chris Huhne has a blueprint for a green, cold, dark Britain - The government's new energy policy will lead to widespread power cuts and economic disaster - 19th December Climate change: the warmist demands heat up as 'green’ costs soar - Even the freezing weather failed to bring cold reality home to the global warming posse in Cancun - 12th December Forced adoptions get no sympathy from the ministry - While loving families are torn apart, Whitehall insists the system is working fine - 28th November There are black days ahead for the 'carbon' industry - As delegates arrive in Cancun for the UN climate conference, the carbon trading lobby is desperate for an accord - 28th November The European 'dream’ has finally collided with reality - The drive towards a European superstate has had its flaws exposed at last - 21st November Forced adoption: another win for the child snatchers - The case of Tony and Debbie Sims illustrates the cruelty of our child protection system - 21st November The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs notice? - The collapse of the warmist position on climate change has not impinged on politicians in Britain or Brussels - 14th November Refugees flee the tyranny of social workers - Cyprus has proved a haven for a family fleeing forced adoption - 7th November Child protection: MPs must act on the scandal of seized children - Britain's child protection system is off the rails, and only the politicians who built it can fix it - 31st October Spending review: The 'cuts' that mean public spending soars - Britain's £800m a year to India helps to pay for its space programme - 24th October Boy hides from social workers in the jungle - Britain's zealous social workers have rarely gone to such lengths to seize a child from loving parents - 17th October A rose-tinted Panorama of Coventry's social workers - Too much was left unsaid when the BBC sent its cameras to Coventry - 10th October Ed Miliband is the costliest politician in British history - When Ed Miliband won the Labour leadership, the commentators overlooked his most startling achievement - 10th October The 'anomalies’ of Dr Rajendra Pachauri’s charity accounts - Why did the Charities Commission let the European wing of Rajendra Pachauri's empire get away with such poor accounting - 3rd October The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions - The media remain conspicuously silent about the real price we pay for wind energy - 26th September Britain's energy policy is in crisis - The Government's policy on renewable energy is wasteful and counter-productive - 19th September Brussels has broken our power to rule - The EU has become a lumbering, unaccountable mess - 11th September A cunning bid to shore up the ruins of the IPCC - The Inter-Academy report into the IPCC, led by Rajendra Pachauri, tiptoes around a mighty elephant in the room - 5th September The Clean Development Mechanism delivers the greatest green scam of all - Even the UN and the EU are wising up to the greenhouse gas scam, "the biggest environmental scandal in history" - 29th August She defied the law to find her mother - How Winona Varney was reunited with her mother through Facebook - 22nd August Arrested for defending the red squirrel - Preserving our native red squirrel means killing its grey rival - 22nd August The future of Iran is waiting for our support - Why have we in the West persecuted exactly those groups that Tehran wants us to - 15th August We lose power and get virtual democracy - Brussels has joined Westminster in offering its citizens online impotence - 8th August The shameful stories that can’t be told - Our heartless, blind and secretive adoption system has made a nonsense of the central principle it was designed to uphold - 31st July Desperate days for the warmists - Warmists may be winning the big grants, but they're not winning the argument - 25th July It's time to bring family law to book - Families are being torn apart by a system veiled in secrecy - 18th July We reach the source of Amazongate - WWF and other environmental groups are hoping to sell the 'carbon credits’ of the jungle in remote Tumucumaque, Brazil - 11th July Forced adoption is a truly dreadful scandal - Social workers are removing children from loving families without proper justification - 4th July Climategate', 'Amazongate' - when will the truth be told? - Critical evidence from climate change sceptics continues to be ignored by the political and scientific establishments - 3rd July Amazongate: the missing evidence - The story of the IPCC's claims about threats to the Amazon rainforest takes another bizarre turn - 27th June Big money to be made in the adoption trade - If ever there was a scandal which called for the full glare of publicity it is the highly secretive system which allows thousands of children to be sent for forced adoption - 20th June Was Margaret Thatcher the first climate sceptic? - Margaret Thatcher was the first leader to warn of global warming - but also the first to see the flaws in the climate change orthodoxy - 13th June The more we pay, it seems, the less we get - The grotesque inflation of salaries has gone hand in hand with a deterioration of almost every public body - 6th June The woolly world of Chris Huhne No one can explain how we cut emissions by four fifths without closing down virtually all of our economy - 30th May The euro crisis is a judgment on the great lie of 'Europe' - The EU is paying the price for its pursuit of 'integration' at any cost - 23rd May Springwatch finds the BBC in cloud cuckoo land - Sadly the flowers have refused to follow the BBC's climate change rules - 23rd May Chris Huhne will ensure the coalition is soon out of power - The new energy secretary has no practical solutions for our looming energy crisis - 16th May Britain's child snatchers are a scandal - The UK's system of forced adoption requires the Government's urgent attention - 16th May General Election 2010: The Tory gamble that failed us all - Imagine what might have happened last week if we had a Conservative leader like Mrs Thatcher - 10th May (General Election 2010) The divisive law of Lord Justice Laws - The law lord ruling that backed the sacking of a Christian relationship counsellor was irrational - 2nd May Why don't we have a real Opposition to Labour? - The more our major political parties pretend to be different from each other, the more they look the same - 2nd May Sense vanishes in a puff of ash - The closure of our airspace casts a highly disturbing light on the way we are governed - 25th April Climategate: a scandal that won't go away - From Macbeth to Watergate, it’s not the act that leads to nemesis, but the attempts to 'trammel up the consequence' - 25th April Don't tell the voters we face bankruptcy - Britain's truly momentous challenges will not even appear in the election campaign - 11th April Climate Change Act has the biggest ever bill - Ed Miliband's legislation will cost us hundreds of billions over the next 40 years - 4th April The day Gordon Brown settled our fate - July 14, 1998 was the day Gordon Brown turned from Iron Chancellor to misguided Santa Claus - 28th March Can we trust the 'Climategate' inquiry? - Sceptics have not been surprised to find that almost all the members of the 'Climategate' inquiry are committed advocates of global warming - 28th March WWF hopes to find $60 billion growing on trees - The carbon credits scheme would make WWF and its partners much richer, but with no lowering of overall CO2 emissions - 21st March Eco-friendly' - but not to eagles - The same hills that provide lift for soaring birds offer heavily subsidised profits for wind farm developers - 14th March A dubious defender of the scientific faith - Some of America’s top ”warmist” scientists are planning a counter-attack on the “climate sceptics” - 7th March How will David Cameron keep the lights on? - Neither of the main parties seems to have any idea how we are to meet the looming shortfall in power - 7th March A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC - The emerging errors of the IPCC's 2007 report are not incidental but fundamental - 28th February What the weatherman never said - Might the beginning of Lent not be an appropriate time for a little repentance - 21st February African crops yield another catastrophe for the IPCC - One more alarming claim in the report is disintegrating under closer examination - 13th February Climate makes money move in mysterious ways - The British Government has been pouring millions of pounds into 'climate-related' projects all over the world - 7th February Amazongate: new evidence of the IPCC's failures - The IPCC is beginning to melt as global tempers rise - 31st January Pachauri: the real story behind the Glaciergate scandal - Dr Pachauri has rapidly distanced himself from the IPCC's baseless claim about vanishing glaciers. But the scientist who made the claim now works for Pachauri - 24th January Mother Nature still defies the Met Office - Wjat makes the Met Office forecast seasons of unusual warmth while the weather obstinately provides record-breaking cold - 17th January Haiti response shows the difference between the EU and a superpower - The earthquake in Haiti provoked prompt and effective action from the US, and waffle from the EU - 17th January Swine flu was a textbook case of a scare - Swine flu corresponds to the classic "beneficial crisis" model - 17th January How David Miliband betrayed Tibet - The Foreign Office's appeasement of Tehran has some strong precedents - 10th January Climate change: the true price of the warmists' folly is becoming clear - From the Met Office's mistakes to Gordon Brown's wind farms, the cost of 'green' policies is growing - 10th January Happy New Year to the inch and the ounce - 2010 is the year that imperial measures would have ended, if they hadn't been vigorously defended - 3rd January The Met Office gives us the warmist weather - The UK's official weather forecasters are determined that winters should be mild, in the face of the frozen facts - 3rd January

Articles: 2009 The questions Dr Pachauri still has to answer - Dr Rajendra Pachauri's position as the world's "top climate official" has been earning a substantial income for the institute he runs - 27th December John Simpson in Romania: 10 days that rooked the world - As the BBC's John Simpson ducked the bullets in Bucharest in 1989, he missed the real story of the revolution - 20th December Copenhagen accord keeps Big Carbon in business - The Copenhagen summit achieved its main aim, to maintain the carbon-trading system established by the Kyoto Protocol - 20th December Jon Snow falls for Ed Miliband's figures - The climate change secretary was conservative, to say the least, in estimating the cost of his Climate Change Act on Channel 4 News - 13th December Copenhagen climate summit: Blindfolds are hiding the crucial issues at Copenhagen - It is now obvious that the science behind rising CO2 levels is far from settled - 9th December Climategate reveals 'the most influential tree in the world' - Leaked emails from the Climatic Research Unit show how the world's weightiest climate data has been distorted - 6th December Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation - Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with a whitewash regarding statistics for global warming - 29th November Van Rompuy wants the EU to run on CO2 - Carbon taxes will provide the EU with its own revenue steram. That's the dream of the new EU President - 22nd November BBC sells the wind farm scam to farmers - The BBC loves to talk about wind farms, but not about the glaring matter of their costly inefficiency - 22nd November EU history will be all the history taught in schools - As Ed Balls proposes to abolish the remains of old-school history, the EU proposes to make the teaching of its own history compulsory - 22nd November Why we will lose in Afghanistan - What we are hardly ever told about the country is that it has been for 300 years the scene of a bitter civil war - 15th November EU Commissioners have stayed in office illegally - The European Commissioners who make our law should have stood down at the end of October - 15th November The ministry of silly ministry names - After Lisbon, ministers will have little left to do but tinker with the titles of their departments - 8th November The end of the great deception - The EU has achieved the goal it has worked stealthily towards for so long - a supra-national government which is now beyond our recall - 8th November The man who let us read the EU constitution - Brigadier Anthony Cowgill, who died last week, put together an intelligible text of the Lisbon Treaty when no one else would - 1st November Ukip faces bankruptcy after Electoral Commission appeal - There is a startling contrast between the treatment of Ukip and the Lib Dems in cases involving party donations - 25th October My passage to India must remain a secret - A vow of silence is the price of a journalist's visa for India - 25th October Maldives' underwater cabinet meeting was a sorry stunt - A world expert on sea-levels wants to tell the people of the Maldives they are not in danger of being inundated - 25th October Meanwhile, back in cold reality... - For the third year running there are signs of an abnormally hard winter in many parts of the world - 18th October Adoption system is UK's shameful secret - Britain is the only country in Europe where children are routinely removed from their parents without consent - 11th October Bushmen are victims of a water war by Botswana - Botswana's government is forcing the last remaining Bushmen from their homeland in the Kalahari by denying them water - 11th October Global warming is much too cosy a name - The warmists want us to start talking about 'global burning' - 4th October What makes Met Office long-term forecasts so wrong? - Global warming dogma and faulty computer models led the Met Office to forecast a 'barbecue summer' for 2009 -4th October Ireland's EU referendum is the last stand against the 'project' - Brussels has pulled out all the stops to get a Yes from the Irish - 27th September How the Libyan connection will keep our lights on - Could the release of Adelbasset Ali Al-Megrahi, the alleged Lockerbie bomber, be connected to Britain's energy crisis? - 20th September The toxic by-products of eco-politics - The ban on the sale of 100 watt and frosted bulbs may save tons of CO2 each year, but it is a drop in the ocean when it comes to saving the planet - 12th September How we help to arm the Taliban - British and other Western taxpayers are helping to fund the Taliban - 12th September New 'hockey stick' graph on climate change under fire - US Congressional inquiries on 'hockey stick' graph claim it is fundamentally flawed - 12th September Arctic ice proves to be slippery stuff - The extent of the sea-ice is now half a million square kilometres more than it was this time last year - 6th September Defra confirms its bulb 'ban' is not legal - Low-energy light bulbs are widely detested and their energy savings and benefits vastly overstated - 6th September US dishonours its promise to Iranian refugees - Why are world leaders ignoring the fate of exiles belonging to the People’s Mujahideen of Iran - 6th September The City shrinks without Lord Turner's help - Before Lord Turner moves to close down the City altogether, he might note that the Government and Brussels are making a pretty good job of it without his help - 30th August Defra lacks power to ban our bulbs - How are shops supposed to decide whether a customer intends a 100W bulb for use in a 'household' - 30th August Secret agenda to score adoptions' - A judge has condemned the "disgraceful" conduct of social workers over an adoption case - 23rd August EU directives will close down most of Britain's aluminium industry - More than 1,000 British jobs will be lost to Brussels regulations - 16th August Train travellers are bombarded with announcements because of the EU - Tory MP David Willetts last week for protesting at the incessant barrage of announcements to which passengers are now subjected. But there's little the Government can do about it - 16th August Hilary Benn, take note: for 'food security we will need farmers' - Hilary Benn has produced a dismal little pamphlet which shows how little he understands of the problems which could destroy our farmers - 16th August MoD man sues ministry for making him tell lies - How long will the MoD continue to put its press officers at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in order to cover up defend the morally indefensible - 9th August British law no longer protects us - Andrew Symeou was deported to Greece, where he was not allowed bail because he is not domiciled there - 9th August The news from Iraq: all quiet on the northern front - Last week Iraqi government forces stormed a refugee camp, bulldozing buildings, shooting and beating the inhabitants with nailed clubs and axes, leaving at least 12 dead and 400 injured - 2nd August Weather records are a state secret - The IPCC's computer models have proved just as wrong in predicting global temperatures as the Met Office has been in forecasting those mild winters and heatwave summers - 2nd August Global cooling hits Al Gore's home - Nashville, the home of leading global warming prophet Al Gore, has enjoyed the coolest July 21 on record - 26th July How can wind turbines generate so much lunacy? - To meet our peak demand of 56 gigawatts of electricity would require 112,000 turbines covering 11,000 square miles, or an eighth of Britain's entire land area - 19th July Evil destruction' of a happy family - A system involving social workers, police and courts took a child away from loving parents for no apparent reason - 19th July Climate change: The sun and the oceans do not lie - Even a compromised agreement to reduce emissions could devastate the economy - and all for a theory shot full of holes - 12th July Soldiers die, but the women's Ferris wheel turns on - Why are we investing in bizarre projects to promote equality in Afghanistam while our soldiers are dying - 12th July Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe and Trooper Joshua Hammond's deaths were preventable - It is shocking that the MoD did not ensure British soldiers were properly protected from roadside bombs in Afghanistan - 5th July Is the state guilty of child kidnap? - Social workers are still too keen to split up families - 5th July Army chief kills off plans for European Army - Sir David Richards, due to take over from dithering Dannatt in August, is a very much brighter general - 28th June A pipedream of six turbines a day until 2020 - Lord Hunt has made one of the most absurd claims that can ever have been uttered by a British minister - 28th June Polar bear expert barred by global warmists - Dr Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful’ - 28th June When will Glenys Kinnock keep her promise? - She wasted money coming from London. She should pay the money back - 21st June Iranian elections a 'loathsome charade' - The reality is that Iran's election was a sham battle between rival factions of a regime as ruthless as any in the world, in which the real power is exercised by the gang of hard-line mullahs - 14th June David Cameron's cowardly caveat on a Euro referendum - The last thing Mr Cameron wants is a referendum in which Britain would be likely to vote against the treaty by a huge margin, because he knows this would provoke the most almighty row - 14th June Crops under stress as temperatures fall - Our politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling - 14th June Have MPs forgotten that our troops are still at war? - Only 10 MPs turned up to an annual debate on defence, while the death toll continued to mount in Afghanistan - 7th June Global warming and a tale of two planets - Kofi Annan claims that global warming is already "killing 300,000 people a year". The situation looks a little different in the real world - 7th June European elections 2009: No wonder voters can't be bothered - Virtually nothing we can do in the European elections on Thursday will have any real influence in deciding how we are governed - 31st May How MPs voted to tax the Queen and quietly exempted themselves - Normally, when any of us are given perks in lieu of salary, the taxman insists we should pay tax on them. Not so, in the case of MPs - 25th May Climate Change Act: Now the world faces its biggest ever bill - One of the mysteries of our time is how impossible it is to interest people in the mind-boggling sums cited by governments all over the world as the cost of the measures they wish to see taken to "stop climate change" - 24th May At least Prince Charles and I still agree on architecture - It was entertaining last week to see how the Prince of Wales' humane views on architecture can still provoke frothing at the mouth from modernist architectural fanatics - 17th May Allowance system was founded on deception - MPs are told they can claim their "allowances" as an automatic right, so long as they go through the charade of handing in largely meaningless invoices - 17th May Climate change: The elements conspire against the warmists - An international team of scientists has used the latest electro-magnetic induction equipment to discover that the Arctic ice is in fact "twice as thick" as they had expected - 10th May A look in the EU's unbalanced books - The EU's former chief accountant has laid bare endemic corruption, but our own politicians are too emasculated to care - 10th May Greenhouse gases raise temperatures online - I am sorry to have misread some of Lord Stern’s figures on CO2 but I'm still concerned that our Government’s leading adviser on climate change has such a wildly optimistic view of the supposed benefits of wind power - 3rd May Battle rages over our tragic failure in Afghanistan - There is a fierce conflict between the MoD, determined to conceal how far its strategy is failing in Afghanistan, and other Government players who realise our policy must be completely rethought - 3rd May Lord Stern, 'Scaremonger in chief', exposed by simple blunders - How come "the world's leading expert on climate change" doesn't even know how much carbon dioxide there currently is in the air - 26th April Our military humiliation in Afghanistan is a scandal - and the cover-up is an even greater one - The under-funded British Army is being forced to make the same mistakes in Afghanistan that it made in Iraq - 26th April 'Save the planet' rhetoric soars to crazy new heights - The terrifying threat of global warming is beginning to turn people's minds - 19th April French fishermen speak out against the 'frightening' imprisonment of British comrades - The French see the treatment of the McBrides as a dire warning of the way EU law will be enforced in Europe's fishing communities - 19th April Gordon Brown shows how green he really is - Our Prime Minister's obsession with electric cars is farcical. Where will the power for these planet-saving vehicles come from? - 12th April A British hero of the fight for freedom in Iran - Lord Slynn of Hadley tried to alert the world to a terrible betrayal of Iran's main hope of a democratic alternative to the murderous Tehran regime - 12th April Yet more mind-boggling figures on global warming - Are we really to believe that the benefits gained from the Climate Change Act will amount to £1,024 billion? - 5th April Now we treat our fishermen like drug dealers - Fishermen have been ruined and sent to jail thanks to a ruthless war waged by the marine agency - 5th April The Pinzgauer Vector scandal shows there's no shortage of things for our 'bored' MPs to be doing - As scandals mount over how MPs exploit their expenses, it was reported last week that one Tory, Nadine Dorries, thinks MPs are bored because “there is not enough for them to do” - 29th March Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' - The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story - 29th March The 'Global Warming Three' are on thin ice - The ony problem with a project to prove that Arctic ice is disappearing is the fact that it is actually getting thicker - 22nd March Working hours scandal that no one will talk about - Where is the outrage that the EU working hours directive will cost British business £11.9 billion a year - 22nd March Nobody listens to the real climate change experts - The minds of world leaders are firmly shut to anything but the fantasies of the scaremongers - 15th March Why should we pay for the beliefs of others? - more that 5,000 UK companies are having to spend millions on "carbon credits" - 15th March Climate 'denial' is know a mental disorder - 8th March How will the Tories fill our power shortfall? - David Cameron appears oblivious to the fact that within a few years we will not be generating enough power to keep the country running - 7th March Mandelson’s package and the loss of Royal Mail - Royal Mail is suffering because of its willingness to comply with EU postal service directives - 2nd March How UK defence firms suffer for MoD Euro-mania - What is truly shocking, is the story behind LDV's plight - 1st March Climate change rhetoric spirals out of control - the Government must be absolutely sure that their data on climate change is accurate - 22nd February The breaking news the BBC wouldn't tell - The world-beating British firm that has undertaken the recycling of a French aircraft carrier should be lauded - 15th February Why do people think Darwinism is a perfect creation? - I was well aware that a howl of furious protests would greet my item last week describing their curious inability to recognise just how much of the story of evolution Darwin's theory cannot explain - 15th February Charles Darwin zealots have made science a substitute religion - 8th February The sub-prime house that Obama built - As a young but influential Chicago politician, the American president helped to create the housing bubble - 1st February BBC abandons 'impartiality' on warming - Again and again the BBC has been eager to promote every new scare raised by the advocates of man-made global warming - 1st February Despite hot air, the Antarctic is not warming up - A deeply flawed new report will be cited ad nauseam by everyone from the BBC to Al Gore - 25th January How Defra crushed British fishermen - A draconian quota sytem forces fishermen to throw countless millions of saleable fish dead back into the sea - 18th January Why are we not using waste as fuel? - DEFRA must start reading EU law properly and realise we could use waste to heat our homes - 12th January More hot air from Met Office - Temperate predictions have been comically inept - 4th January Our Army failed its test in Iraq - The destruction of the Army's reputation will be one of the most lasting of Tony Blair's legacies - 4th January

Articles: 2008 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved - Looking back over my columns of the past 12 months, one of their major themes was neatly encapsulated by two recent items from The Daily Telegraph - 28th December 2008 Facts melted by 'global warming' - Something very odd had happened to the daily updated graph on the official Nansen website last weekend - 21st December 2008 Tehran's wish is law to Brussels - If the politicians who run the European Union were found to be acting repeatedly in gross breach of their own it would be thought worthy of some attention - 21st December 2008 Czech leader in shock after EU assault - A bizarre confrontation in Hradcany Castle confirms the inablilty of the Euro-elite to accept anyone else's opinions - 14th December 2008 Blizzard of mad proposals descends on UK - As blizzards closed roads and schools across northern England and Scotland, the Government's Committee on Climate Change issued its first report on how Britain is to meet the terrifying threat of runaway global warming - 7th December 2008 The few decisions Parliament has left to make - For every law passed by Parliament, scores are now handed down by the EU, leaving our elected MPs with ever less to do - 7th December 2008 Obama proposes economic suicide for US - The fact that America will soon be ruled by a man wholly under the spell of post-scientific hysteria may leave us in wondering despair - 30th November 2008 Stubborn glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply - Second only to those "drowning" polar bears, there is no scare with which the global warmists more like to chill our blood than the fast-vanishing glaciers of the Himalayas - 23rd November 2008 A fisherman who waived the rules - Nothing is more enraging than the quota rules which force fisherman every year to "discard" hundreds of thousands of tons of saleable fish - 23rd November 2008 World not seen such freezing heat - A scientific blunder has raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the alarm over global warming - 16th November 2008 Tories must call for Snatch inquiry - The Opposition must lend all the weight it can to investigating the deaths of the 38 soldiers ordered to drive vehicles offering no protection against mines and bombs' - 16th November 2008 Waves of EU law leave us foundering - Everywhere we see businesses struggling in a miasma of confusion that our hidden government in Brussels has created - 9th November 2008 This Bill makes chilling reading - If the Climate Change Bill's intent is taken seriously, the cost of cutting our CO2 emissions by 80 per cent would cripple our economy - 2nd November 2008 Gordon Brown puffs the great wind scam - Even in these dark times, it is still possible to be shocked when our Prime Minister personally endorses a flagrant perversion of the truth - 26th October 2008 White asbestos proved fatal for their livelihood - 19th October 2008 Ed Miliband will follow EU instructions - The most potentially damaging move in Gordon Brown's recent Government reorganisation could well be his setting up of the new Department of Energy and Climate Change - 12th October 2008 The EU's role in our financial crisis - 5th October 2008 Carbon capture is not here yet - it is another green dream. Also, a reply to an 'extraordinary tirade' by George Monbiot Financial crisis: Lehman misses out on carbon credit scam - What is the connection between the bankrupt Lehman Brothers and the likelihood that in four years' time our electricity bills will jump another 25 per cent (on top of the rises likely from soaring coal and gas prices)? - 21st September 2008 Climate change chicanery -all the hot news from the global warming debate - 14th September 2008 Ministers in power struggle over power - on the battle at the heart of government over what threatens to be Britain's biggest crisis - 7th September 2008 The catastrophe behind climate change - A long hard look at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 31st August 2008 Lords waste paper on waste policy - Handing over direction of our waste policy to Brussels requires us to implement a strategy wholly inappropriate to our needs - 24th August 2008 US gets ready to blow its economy away - A shocking new threat to the richest economy in the world - 17th August 2008 A dark future for UK's energy supply - Britain faces an unprecedented crisis thanks to the shambles of the Government's energy policy - 10th August 2008 Thames fishermen get gangsters' sentences - A shock wave has run through the fishing industry an extraordinary case in Ipswich Crown Court - 3rd August 2008 Nasa is out of line on global warming - Christopher Booker examines the controversy surrounding measures of global warming produced by Nasa's Goddard Institute] for Space Studies - 27th July 2008 (Goddard Institute) Why has China bought Mugabe a mansion? - The Chinese dictatorship props up corrupt African governments in return for fabulous mineral reserves - 20th July 2008 Metric martyrs singled out for ‘harassment’ - Christopher Booker reveals the truth about the People's Mujahideen of Iran, Arctic sea ice - and trading standards in Hackney - 13th July 2008 Our leaders are in carbon-cloud cuckoo land - The G8's infatuation with cutting CO2 emissions is beginning to look extraordinarily reckless - Thursday, 10th July 2008 What Afghanistan needs is infrastructure - Christopher Booker explains what's really needed to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan - 6th July 2008 Look out, Mr Cameron, or we'll all be in the dark - Christopher Booker exposes the fallacies that motivate green energy strategists and global warming alarmists - 29th June 2008 Wind power comes to my back yard - Christopher Booker revisits "the great wind scam", examines alternatives to the Snatch Land Rover, and compares the EU attitude to democracy with that of Robert Mugabe - 22nd June 2008 When Irish noes are smiling after referendum on European Union's Lisbon Treaty - That sensational referendum result from Ireland called the bluff on one of the most shameless confidence tricks in political history - 15th June 2008 Fishermen face ‘worst ever crisis’ - By the end of 2008 thousands more of our surviving 12,000 fishermen - already down in numbers by 40 per cent in the past 14 years - fear they may be out of business forever - 8th June 2008 As EU takes over Smith Square, Conservatives remain silent on Europe - There is rich symbolism in the fact that the former Conservative Central Office in Smith Square, Westminster, is to be renamed "Europe House" - 1st June 2008 Farmers face £6bn bill for asbestos clean-up - A group of senior farmers are battling to save their industry from a red-tape disaster which could cost it an estimated £6 billion - 25th May 2008 TB blood test has bloody results - Many farmers have become so alarmed by the apparent unreliability of a highly controversial new blood test for their livestock, that they are lining up to have it ruled on by the High Court - 18th May 2008 Victory for Iran's dissidents in a British court - Christopher Booker on the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, the EU's postal directives and the mother of Pte Phillip Hewett - 11th May 2008 (Pte Phillip Hewett) Watch the web for climate change truths - The debate about the gap between scientists' climate-change predictions and observable data is being conducted largely on the internet - 4th May 2008 Beware the Biocidal Products directive - Anyone wishing an insight into how the real government of our country now works might consider the plight of Quatchem, a small but enterprising chemical company in Oldham, which makes a range of disinfectant products - 27th April 2008 Stop the CO2 scare, before it's too late - There is a galaxy of experts producing hard evidence that - if man-made warming of the planet exists at all - the official explanation for it is oriented in wholly the wrong direction - 20th April 2008 Cost of determining the Army's duty of care - Christopher Booker on a mother's quest to discover why her son died, and an activist who forced the BBC website to alter an item on climate change - 13th April 2008 Lords usher in EU treaty with 12-hour farce - By happy coincidence, events last week again confirmed the Orwellian ingenuity of the EU's coup d'état over the constitution - 6th April 2008 The Gurkhas and FSA: how they are related - Four stories much in the news last week, each causing the Government serious embarrassment, highlighted again that our real government is no longer in London but in Brussels - 30th March 2008 The coroner grabs the headlines, while the true dangers pass in silence - The MoD was not trying to gag Oxfordshire coroner Andrew Walker, it was merely asking that he should stick to his legal duty - 23rd March 2008 EU helps China to cripple Dalai Lama's charity - After China and Europe became "strategic partners", the EU suspended ApTibet's operations because of its link to the Dalai Lama - 16th March 2008 Climate dissent grows hotter as chill deepens - Last week, virtually unreported in Britain, the extraordinary winter weather of 2008 elsewhere in the world continued - 9th March 2008 Victims of RSPCA bite back - Parliament Square saw a highly unusual demonstration in February 13. Robed Hindu priests joined with farmers and animal lovers to protest at the killing by the RSPCA of a sacred cow - 2nd March 2008 The real costs of climate change - Christopher Booker makes no apology for returning to the unaccustomed snowfalls of the past six weeks because of their possible political implications when measures to "combat global warming" threaten to impose astronomic costs on the world economy - 24th February 2008 Europe's parliaments rush into impotence - In May 2005, when French voters chucked out the EU Constitution in a referendum, it made front-page news across Europe. When the French Assembly, last Thursday, nodded through a rearranged but otherwise virtually identical Lisbon Treaty by 336 votes to 52, not a single paper in Britain reported it - 17th February 2008 EU plans to see our economy blown away - It was appropriate that, just as our MPs were voting last week to hand over yet more of the power to run this country in the EU treaty, the EU itself should be unveiling easily the most ambitious example yet of how it uses the powers we have already given away - 3rd February 2008 When the lights go out, you'll know who to blame - When the history of modern Britain comes to be written, one of the most catastrophic failures of successive governments will be seen to have been their grotesque mishandling of our national energy policy - 13th January 2008 2007 was a year of lying dangerously - An image which summed up the surreal nature of 2007 as well as any other was a meeting in March of the European Council, at which Tony Blair and his 26 fellow heads of government decided, in the name of fighting global warming, to ban incandescent light bulbs - 31st December 2007

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