Sunday, 14 June 2009

Christopher Booker

Christopher Booker

Christopher Booker of The Sunday Telegraph exposes the ever-growing power of the European Union in Brussels and the excesses of mad officialdom.

CHRISTOPHER BOOKER LATEST

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, saysChristopher Booker.

13 Jun 2009

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, says Christopher Booker.

13 Jun 2009

Crops under stress as temperatures fall

Waterworld: Vehicle parked in the floodwater surrounding a farm near Fargo, North Dakota, in March 2009

Our politicians haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observesChristopher Booker.

13 Jun 2009

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, observesChristopher Booker.

06 Jun 2009

Global warming and a tale of two planets

Snow in Greece

Kofi Annan claims that global warming is already "killing 300,000 people a year". The situation looks a little different in the real world, saysChristopher Booker.

06 Jun 2009

MPs' expenses: At least Ann Winterton stood up for our troops in Iraq

Ann Winterton has been tireless in exposing the Ministry of Defence?s disastrous misjudgments over vehicles given to the Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, says Christopher Booker.

30 May 2009

No wonder voters can't be bothered

European Parliament in Strasbourg

Virtually nothing we can do in the European elections on Thursday will have any real influence in deciding how we are governed, says Christopher Booker.

30 May 2009

MPs' expenses: 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, saysChristopher Booker.

23 May 2009

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 as the cost of the measures to "stop climate change", says Christopher Booker.

23 May 2009

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, saysChristopher Booker.

16 May 2009

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, saysChristopher Booker.

16 May 2009

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, saysChristopher Booker.

09 May 2009

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, says Christopher Booker.

09 May 2009