Christopher Booker

For other people named Chris Booker, see Chris Booker (disambiguation).

Christopher John Penrice Booker (7 October 1937 – 3 July 2019) was an English journalist and author. He was a founder and first editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye in 1961. From 1990 onward he was a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph.[1] In 2009, he published The Real Global Warming Disaster. He also disputed the link between passive smoking and cancer,[2][3] and the dangers posed by asbestos.[4][5] In his Sunday Telegraph section he frequently commented on the UK Family Courts and Social Services.[6]

In collaboration with Richard North, Booker wrote a variety of publications advancing a Eurosceptic, though academically disputed,[7][8] popular historiography of the European Union. The best-known of these is The Great Deception.

  1. ^ International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004, Routledge, 2003. p63
  2. ^ Private Eye founder dies at 81 Published by The Shropshire Star on 6 July 2019, retrieved on 12 July 2019
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference passivesmoking was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Asbestos saga proves our feeble press watchdog has no bark and no bite Published by The Guardian on 28 September 2010, retrieved on 12 July 2019
  5. ^ Booker, Christopher (15 October 2006). "Christopher Booker's Notebook". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  6. ^ Booker, Christopher (18 January 2014). "Child protection services: A mother's diary records the awful death of a child 'in care'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 September 2016.
  7. ^ Tunkrová, Lucie (Winter 2006). Karlas, Jan (ed.). "The Great Deception. The Secret History of the European Union (Skryté dějiny evropské integrace od roku 1918 do současnosti) by Christopher Booker, Richard North". Perspectives: The Central European Review of International Affairs (27). Institute of International Relations, NGO: 122–124. eISSN 1803-4551. ISSN 1210-762X. JSTOR 23616067.
  8. ^ Richard, Spall, ed. (December 2005). "Book Review: The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union. By Christopher Booker and Richard North. (New York: Continuum, 2003. Pp. xiii, 474. $39.95.) University of Trenton Reviewed by Mark Gilbert". The Historian. 67 (4): 787–788. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00130.x. S2CID 218499735.