Sunday, 2 August 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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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, says Christopher Booker.

01 Aug 2009

Weather records are a state secret

Sir John Houghton, former head of the Met Office, edited the first three IPCC reports between 1990 and 2001

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, saysChristopher Booker.

01 Aug 2009

Secret vote keeps EU whistleblower from office

Marta Andreasen's real crime was that she had found the EU's accounting system so chaotic and open to fraud that she put forward proposals for it to be completely reformed, saysChristopher Booker.

25 Jul 2009

Global cooling hits Al Gore's home

Al Gore

Nashville, the home of leading global warming prophet Al Gore, has enjoyed the coolest July 21 on record, observesChristopher Booker.

25 Jul 2009

'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, writesChristopher Booker.

18 Jul 2009

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, says Christopher Booker.

18 Jul 2009

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

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

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, says Christopher Booker.

04 Jul 2009

Polar bear expert barred by warmists

Dr Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful’ , reveals Christopher 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, writesChristopher 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


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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, 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, saysChristopher 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, observes Christopher 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

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, says Christopher 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, 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