Sunday, 13 March 2011

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

For every new 'green' job, nearly four are lost

The collapse of Modec, the electric van manufacturer, shows how David Cameron's green economy is withering, says Christopher Booker.

12 Mar 2011

Liam Fox has broken his promise in the case of Pex

The Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, was very keen, in opposition, on the care of our military veterans. You wouldn't know it by his treatment of the Fijian war hero Pex, says Christopher Booker.

12 Mar 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

12 Mar 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

05 Mar 2011

The Ministry of Defence deserts war hero Pex in his hour of need

A Fijian soldier who survived a bomb attack that killed three of his comrades is threatened with deportation, says Christopher Booker.

05 Mar 2011

Transport Secretary Philip Hammond reveals his ignorance of wind power

Philip Hammond's claim that onshore wind power 'pays its way' is completely off-beam, says Christopher Booker.

05 Mar 2011

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, writes Christopher Booker

26 Feb 2011

Why must we continue to appease Iran's tyrants?

The West’s appeasement of one of the world’s most vicious regimes and the betrayal of Camp Ashraf remain mysteries of our time, writes Christopher Booker.

19 Feb 2011

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, asks Christopher Booker.

19 Feb 2011

Britain's bureaucrats trump the Indians

Indian officialdom pales beside the work of Britain's own bureaucracy when it comes to extracting my money, writes Christopher Booker.

19 Feb 2011

Prince Charles defends his faith against 'deniers'

Prince Charles's speech in Brussels last week shows him still clinging to climate change orthodoxy, says Christopher Booker.

12 Feb 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

12 Feb 2011

Tim Loughton, the children's minister, slams my 'unhelpful' campaign against the child-snatchers

The minister responsible, TIm Loughton, does not seem to think that forced adoption is a problem, says Christopher Booker.

12 Feb 2011

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, writes Christopher Booker.

05 Feb 2011

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.

05 Feb 2011

Christopher Booker: my fifty years

It seems very odd to be stumbling on to the stage as The Sunday Telegraph’s “oldest living inhabitant”.

05 Feb 2011

How BBC warmists abuse the science

Sir Paul Nurse, president of the Royal Society, is an expert in genetics, not climatology, writes Christopher Booker.

29 Jan 2011

A twist in the tale of the squirrel and the RSPCA

The case of Norris Atthey - who challenged the RSPCA to prosecute him for drowning a grey squirrel - has taken a bizarre turn, writes Christopher Booker.

22 Jan 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

22 Jan 2011

London to Edinburgh by electric car: it was quicker by stagecoach

The BBC's stunt of taking an electric Mini to Edinburgh reveals just how impractical rechargeable cars are, writes Christopher Booker.

15 Jan 2011

What was the role of warmists in the Queensland flood disaster?

Australia was told to prepare for droughts as a result of climate change, and let down its guard against flooding, writes Christopher Booker.

15 Jan 2011

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, writes Christopher Booker.

15 Jan 2011

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, writesChristopher Booker.

08 Jan 2011

What we need in 2011 is an opposition

On all the most important issues effecting our lives, our politicians are in deluded agreement, says Christopher Booker

01 Jan 2011

As we count the cost of the freeze, Government prepares for global warming

The authorities continue to prepare for 'rising temperatures' despite a succession of unprecedentedly cold winters, says Christopher Booker.

01 Jan 2011