Sunday, 26 June 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

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, warns Christopher Booker.

25 Jun 2011

Social workers see sense – it's just a shame they're not ours

Vicky Haigh fled to Ireland to escape her council's social workers, but they haven't given up, reports Christopher Booker.

25 Jun 2011

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, says Christopher Booker

18 Jun 2011

The mystery of Haringey’s missing 'Girl X’ makes a mockery of the Children Act

The family of a girl taken into care have not seen or heard from her for 10 months, writes Christopher Booker.

11 Jun 2011

Industry begins to count the true cost of 'climate change'

Heavy industry in Europe faces a crippling bill for global warming, says Christopher Booker.

11 Jun 2011

Professor Beddington's report will let the great asbestos scam continue

The Government's chief scientific adviser, Prof Sir John Beddington, has given the green light to the white asbestos scam, says Christopher Booker.

04 Jun 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

04 Jun 2011

Councils that can't afford libraries are still recruiting highly paid 'sustainability' officers

While local authorities cut millions of pounds from public services, their spending on 'climate change' continues apace, writes Christopher Booker.

04 Jun 2011

Overseas aid: We borrow to give to the world

It only takes us 22 days to borrow the £8.5bn we hand out so generously every year, says Christopher Booker.

28 May 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

28 May 2011

The real scandal hidden by gags is what goes on in family courts

The walls of secrecy surrounding snatched children are creating a one-sided justice system, argues Christopher Booker.

28 May 2011

Wales in revolt over mammoth wind farm scheme

The Welsh Assembly's plans to install 800 giant wind turbines in mid-Wales make no economic sense, says Christopher Booker.

21 May 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

21 May 2011

Vicky Haigh saves her baby from the clutches of the social workers

A British woman has given birth in Ireland to stop Nottinghamshire social workers from seizing her child, says Christopher Booker.

21 May 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

14 May 2011

The police hunt is on for Vicky Haigh, though she is not a 'missing person'

Former jockey and trainer Vicky Haigh was surprised to discover that she had been declared a 'missing person' by 'her' social worker, writes Christopher Booker.

07 May 2011

Shale gas could solve the world's energy problems

It's anathema to environmentalists, but shale gas is a new fossil-fuel source that could power the world for centuries, says Christopher Booker.

07 May 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

07 May 2011

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, writes Christopher Booker.

30 Apr 2011

Politicians hide their plans to put French jets on Royal Navy carriers

The Royal Navy won't be flying Anglo-US Joint Strike Fighters, but providing a platform for French Rafales as part of an EU force, writes Christopher Booker.

30 Apr 2011

Neil Herron, Metric Martyr campaigner, took on the parking enforcers for me

A veteran campaigner, Neil Herron of Metric Martyrs fame has turned his attention to parking law, writes Christopher Booker.

30 Apr 2011

A parish church where the Easter Alleluias are only echoes of the past

Perhaps for the first time in a thousand years, the village church will be empty on Easter Sunday, writes Christopher Booker.

23 Apr 2011

The AV referendum scandal that calls for a 'No'

The scandal over the funding of the 'Yes' campaign in the AV referendum reveals the effrontery of our political class, says Christopher Booker.

23 Apr 2011

New figures show the lights may go out sooner than we thought

Our coal-fired power stations are closer to extinction than predicted, and wind power stubbornly refuses to fill the gap, says Christopher Booker.

23 Apr 2011

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, says Christopher Booker.

23 Apr 2011