Sunday, 12 July 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.

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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, wonders Christopher Booker.

11 Jul 2009

The sun and the oceans do not lie

Sunset

Even a compromised agreement to reduce emissions could devastate the economy - and all for a theory shot full of holes, says Christopher Booker.

11 Jul 2009

Latest troop deaths were preventable

Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe

It is shocking that the MoD did not ensure that British soldiers were properly protected from roadside bombs, says Christopher Booker.

04 Jul 2009

Is the state guilty of child kidnap?

Social workers are still too keen to split up families, saysChristopher Booker.

04 Jul 2009

Polar bear expert barred by warmists

Ap Polar bears Polar bear expert barred by warmists

Dr Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful’ , revealsChristopher Booker.

27 Jun 2009

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, writes Christopher Booker.

27 Jun 2009

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, writes Christopher Booker.

27 Jun 2009

When will Glenys Kinnock keep her promise?

She wasted money coming from London. She should pay the money back , says Christopher Booker.

20 Jun 2009

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, says Christopher 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

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, observes Christopher Booker.

06 Jun 2009

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, saysChristopher Booker.

06 Jun 2009

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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, saysChristopher 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

Blowing in the wind: a piper marks the opening of Whitelee, near Glasgow, Europe's largest onshore wind farm

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, says Christopher 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, says Christopher 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, says Christopher 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

Greenhouse gases raise temperatures online

I am sorry to have misread some of Lord Stern’s figures on CO2, says Christopher Booker, 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.

02 May 2009

Battle rages over our tragic failure in Afghanistan

 British troops 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, says Christopher Booker.

02 May 2009

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, says Christopher Booker.

25 Apr 2009

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, says Christopher Booker.

18 Apr 2009