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'''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 [[satire|satirical]] magazine ''[[Private Eye]]'' in 1961. From 1990 onward he was a columnist for ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]''.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Dt8nO2bOnysC&pg=PA63 International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2004], Routledge, 2003. p63</ref> In 2009, he published ''[[The Real Global Warming Disaster]]''. He also disputed the link between [[passive smoking]] and [[cancer]],<ref>[https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/features/2019/07/06/private-eye-founder-dies-at-81/ Private Eye founder dies at 81] Published by The Shropshire Star on 6 July 2019, retrieved on 12 July 2019</ref><ref name=passivesmoking/> and the [[Health impact of asbestos|dangers]] posed by [[asbestos]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/27/asbestos-press-watchdog-pcc 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</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Booker |first=Christopher |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1531446/Christopher-Bookers-Notebook.html |title=Christopher Booker's Notebook |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=15 October 2006 |accessdate=12 April 2012 |location=London}}</ref> In his ''Sunday Telegraph'' section he frequently commented on the UK [[Courts of England and Wales#Family Court|Family Court]]s and Social Services.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/10580028/Child-protection-services-A-mothers-diary-records-the-awful-death-of-a-child-in-care.html |title=Child protection services: A mother's diary records the awful death of a child 'in care' |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |first=Christopher |last=Booker |date=18 January 2014 |access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref>

In collaboration with [[Richard A. E. North#European Union|Richard North]], Booker wrote a variety of publications advancing a [[Eurosceptic]], though academically disputed,<ref name="perspectives">{{Cite journal|last=Tunkrová|first=Lucie|date=Winter 2006|editor-last=Karlas|editor-first=Jan|title=The Great Deception. The Secret History of the European Union (Skryté dějiny evropské integrace od roku 1918 do současnosti) by Christopher Booker, Richard North|journal=Perspectives: The Central European Review of International Affairs|publisher=Institute of International Relations, NGO|issue=27|pages=122–124|issn=1210-762X|eissn=1803-4551|jstor=23616067}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|editor1-last=Richard|editor1-first=Spall|title=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|journal=The Historian|date=December 2005|volume=67|issue=4|pages=787–788|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00130.x|s2cid=218499735 }}</ref> [[popular historiography]] of the [[European Union]]. The best-known of these is ''The Great Deception''.

==Career==

===Early life===
Booker was educated at [[Dragon School, Oxford|Dragon School]], [[Shrewsbury School]]<ref name="Grun">[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/04/christopher-booker-obituary Christopher Booker obituary] Published by The Guardian on 4 July 2019, retrieved on 12 July 2019</ref> and [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]], where he read History.<ref>{{Who's Who | title=BOOKER, Christopher John Penrice | id = U8078 | volume = 2019 | edition = online}}</ref>

===1960s===
With fellow [[Shrewsbury School|Salopians]] [[Richard Ingrams]] and [[Willie Rushton]] he founded ''[[Private Eye]]'' in 1961, and was its first editor. He was ousted by Ingrams in 1963. Returning in 1965, he remained a permanent member of the magazine's collaborative joke-writing team thereafter (with Ingrams, [[Barry Fantoni]] and current editor [[Ian Hislop]]) till his death.<ref>[https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2019/07/03/43469/christopher_booker,_private_eye%e2%80%99s_first_editor,_dies_at_81 Christopher Booker, Private Eye's first editor, dies at 81] Published by Chortle and retrieved on 12 July 2019</ref>

Booker began writing jazz reviews for ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' while at university.<ref name="Tobitt">{{cite web |last1=Tobitt |first1=Charlotte |title=Private Eye founding editor and Telegraph columnist Christopher Booker dies aged 81 |url=https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/private-eye-founding-editor-and-telegraph-columnist-christopher-booker-dies-aged-81/ |website=Press Gazette |access-date=3 July 2019 |date=3 July 2019}}</ref> From 1961 to 1964, he wrote about jazz for ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' as well. His contributions included a positive account of a concert given by the pianist [[Erroll Garner]], which did not happen; it was a late cancellation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/edition/register/christopher-booker-obituary-bpxfr7j3c|title=Christopher Booker obituary|work=[[The Times]]|date=4 July 2019|access-date=4 July 2019}} {{subscription required}}</ref> In 1962, he became the resident political scriptwriter on the [[BBC]] satire show ''[[That Was The Week That Was]]'', notably contributing sketches on Home Secretary [[Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor|Henry Brooke]] and Prime Minister Sir [[Alec Douglas-Home]] which have often been cited as examples of the programme's outspoken style.

From 1964 he became a ''[[The Spectator|Spectator]]'' columnist, writing on the press and TV, and in 1969 published ''The Neophiliacs: A Study of the Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties'', a highly critical analysis of the role played by fantasy in the political and social life of those decades. He was married to the novelist [[Emma Tennant]] between 1963 and 1968.

===1970s===
He married Christine Verity, his second wife, in 1972.<ref name="Grun"/> In the early 1970s, Booker campaigned against both the building of [[tower blocks]] and the wholesale redevelopment of Britain's cities according to the ideology of the [[Modern architecture|modernist]] movement. In 1973, he published ''Goodbye London'' (written with [[Candida Lycett Green]]), and, with Bennie Gray, was the IPC Campaigning Journalist of the Year. He made a documentary for the BBC in 1979 on modernist architecture, called ''City of Towers''. In the mid-1970s he contributed a regular quiz to [[Melvyn Bragg]]'s BBC literary programme ''Read All About It'', and he returned to ''The Spectator'' as a weekly contributor (1976–1981), when he also became a lead book-reviewer for ''The Sunday Telegraph''. In 1979, he married Valerie Patrick, his third wife, with whom he had two sons; they lived in [[Somerset]].<ref name="Grun"/>

===1980s===
In 1980, he published ''The Seventies: Portrait Of A Decade'', and covered the [[1980 Moscow Olympics|Moscow Olympics]] for the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', publishing ''The Games War: A Moscow Journal'' the following year. Between 1987 and 1990 he wrote ''The Daily Telegraph''{{'}}s ''The Way of the World'' column (a satirical column originated by [[Michael Wharton]]) as "Peter Simple II", and in 1990 swapped places with [[Auberon Waugh]], after mocking Waugh who firmly requested he should write the column instead of Booker, to become a weekly columnist on ''The Sunday Telegraph'', where he remained until March 2019.<ref name="Tobitt"/>

Between 1986 and 1990 he took part in a detailed investigation, chaired by Brigadier Tony Cowgill, of the charges that senior British politicians, including [[Harold Macmillan]], had been guilty of a serious [[war crime]] in handing over thousands of Cossack and Yugoslav prisoners to the Communists at the end of the [[Second World War|war]] in 1945. Their report, published in 1990, presented those events in a very different light, and Booker later published a lengthy analysis of the controversy in ''A Looking Glass Tragedy'' (1997).

===After 1990===
From 1992 he focused more on the role played in British life by bureaucratic regulation and the [[European Union]], forming a professional collaboration with [[Richard North (blogger)|Richard North]], and they subsequently co-authored a series of books, including ''The Mad Officials: How The Bureaucrats Are Strangling Britain'' (1994); ''The Castle of Lies'' (1996); ''The Great Deception'' (2003), a critical history of the European Union; and ''Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth '' (2007), a study of the part played in Western society in recent decades by the 'scare phenomenon'.

In 2004, he published ''[[The Seven Basic Plots|The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories]]'', a [[Jungian]]-influenced analysis of stories and their psychological meaning, on which he had been working for over 30 years. The book was dismissed by [[Adam Mars-Jones]], who objected to Booker employing his generalisations about conventional plot structures prescriptively: "He sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning ''[[Rigoletto]]'', ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'', [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]], [[Marcel Proust|Proust]], [[James Joyce|Joyce]], [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]] and [[D.H. Lawrence|Lawrence]] – the list goes on – while praising ''[[Crocodile Dundee]]'', ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET]]'' and ''[[Terminator 2]]''".<ref>Adam Mars-Jones [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/nov/21/fiction.features "Terminator 2 Good, The Odyssey Bad"], ''[[The Observer]]'', 21 November 2004, retrieved 1 September 2011.</ref>

[[Fay Weldon]] wrote "This is the most extraordinary, exhilarating book. It always seemed to me that 'the story' was God's way of giving meaning to crude creation. Booker now interprets the mind of God, and analyses not just the novel – which will never to me be quite the same again – but puts the narrative of contemporary human affairs into a new perspective. If it took its author a lifetime to write, one can only feel gratitude that he did it".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-seven-basic-plots-9780826452092/ |title=The Seven Basic Plots |publisher=Bloomsbury |access-date=19 March 2013 |archive-date=9 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909234609/https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-seven-basic-plots-9780826452092/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Roger Scruton]] described it as a "brilliant summary of story-telling".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/wagner-moralist-or-monster-1235 |title=Wagner: moralist or monster? |first=Roger |last=Scruton |author-link=Roger Scruton |publisher=The New Criterion |date=February 2005 |access-date=19 March 2013}}</ref>

==Views==
Booker's weekly columns in ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' covered a wide range of topics of public interest. He has been described by British columnist [[James Delingpole]] in ''The Spectator'' as doing "the kind of proper, old-school things that journalists hardly ever bother with in this new age of aggregation and flip bloggery: he digs, he makes the calls, he reads the small print, he takes up the cause of the little man and campaigns, he speaks truth to power without fear or favour".<ref name=" Delingpole  The Spectator">{{cite news |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/all/5482258/you-know-it-makes-sense.thtml |date=28 October 2009 |title=You Know It Makes Sense |author=James Delingpole |author-link=James Delingpole |work=The Spectator |access-date=4 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091111154714/http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/all/5482258/you-know-it-makes-sense.thtml |archive-date=11 November 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

On a range of health issues, Booker put forward a view that the public is being unnecessarily "scared", as detailed in his book ''Scared to Death''. Thus, he argues that [[asbestos]], [[passive smoking]]<ref name=passivesmoking>"scientific evidence to support [the] belief that [[passive smoking|inhaling other people's smoke]] causes cancer simply does not exist" – Christopher Booker, 1 July 2007, ''Sunday Telegraph'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20080501032318/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1556118/Christopher-Booker%27s-notebook.html Christopher Booker's notebook: All done with passive smoke and mirrors]</ref> and [[Bovine spongiform encephalopathy|BSE]]<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1387271/Christopher-Bookers-Notebook.html Ministers hushed up report on the dangers of sheep dip] Published by Daily Telegraph on 10 March 2002, written by Christopher Booker, retrieved on 11 July 2019</ref> have not been shown to be dangerous. His articles on global warming have been challenged by [[George Monbiot]] of ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/feb/03/climate-change-daily-telegraph-christopher-booker |title=Booker's work of clanger-dropping fiction |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=George |last=Monbiot |date=3 February 2009 |access-date=1 April 2010}}</ref>

Booker said that [[white asbestos]] is "chemically identical to talcum powder" and poses a "non-existent" risk to human health,<ref name=Booker130102>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1381270/Christopher-Bookers-Notebook.html |title=Christopher Booker's Notebook Billions to be spent on nonexistent risk |work=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=13 January 2002 |access-date=1 April 2010}}</ref> relying primarily on a 2000 paper for the [[Health and Safety Executive]] (HSE).<ref name=Hodgson00>{{cite journal |author=Hodgson JT, Darnton A |title=The quantitative risks of mesothelioma and lung cancer in relation to asbestos exposure |journal=Ann Occup Hyg |volume=44 |issue=8 |pages=565–601 |date=December 2000 |pmid=11108782 |doi=10.1093/annhyg/44.8.565 |quote=At exposure levels seen in occupational cohorts it is concluded that the exposure specific risk of mesothelioma from the three principal commercial asbestos types is broadly in the ratio 1:100:500 for [[chrysotile]], [[amosite]] and [[crocidolite]] respectively. For lung cancer the conclusions are less clear cut. ...  The risk differential between chrysotile and the two amphibole fibres for lung cancer is thus between 1:10 and 1:50.|doi-access=free }}</ref> He wrote in January 2002 that "HSE studies, including a paper by John Hodgson and Andrew Darnton in 2000, concluded that the risk from the substance is "virtually zero". In response, the HSE's Director General, [[Timothy Walker (civil servant)|Timothy Walker]], wrote that Booker's articles on asbestos had been "misinformed and do little to increase public understanding of a very important occupational health issue."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/02/17/dt1704.xml | title=Booker's claims are irresponsible | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | first=Timothy | last=Walker | date=17 February 2002 | access-date=1 April 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> The HSE issued further rebuttals to articles written by Booker in both 2005<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/record/st151205.htm | title =HSE Press Office: Putting the record straight | date =15 December 2005 | publisher =Health and Safety Executive | access-date =18 November 2008 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20081105174441/http://hse.gov.uk/press/record/st151205.htm | archive-date =5 November 2008 | url-status =dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1505199/Christopher-Booker%27s-notebook.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510203138/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1505199/Christopher-Booker%27s-notebook.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=10 May 2008 | title =Christopher Booker's notebook Fatal cracks appear in asbestos scam as HSE shifts its ground | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | date=11 December 2005 | access-date=1 April 2010 | first=Christopher | last=Booker}}</ref> and in 2006.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1525683/Christopher-Booker%27s-notebook.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912174028/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1525683/Christopher-Booker%27s-notebook.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=12 September 2012 | title = Christopher Booker's notebook |first1=C|last1=Booker | work=The Daily Telegraph | location=London | date=6 August 2006 | access-date=1 April 2010}}</ref>

In an article in May 2008, Booker again cited the Hodgson and Darnton paper, claiming that "they concluded that the risk of contracting mesothelioma from white asbestos cement was "insignificant", while that of lung cancer was "zero"".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3558729/Farmers-face-6bn-bill-for-asbestos-clean-up.html |url-access=registration |title=Farmers face £6bn bill for asbestos clean-up|author=Christopher Booker|date=25 May 2008|work=The Telegraph US }}</ref> This article was also criticised by the HSE as "substantially misleading", as well as by George Monbiot, who argued that Booker misrepresented the authors' findings.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/sep/23/controversiesinscience.health |title=The patron saint of charlatans is again spreading dangerous misinformation |work=The Guardian |location=London |first=George |last=Monbiot |date=23 September 2008 |access-date=1 April 2010}}</ref> Booker's claims were also critically analysed by Richard Wilson in his book ''Don't Get Fooled Again'' (2008). Wilson highlighted Booker's repeated endorsement of the alleged scientific expertise of John Bridle, who in 2004 was convicted under the UK's [[Trade Descriptions Act 1968|Trade Descriptions Act]] of making false claims about his qualifications.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/asbestos_expert_lied_about_his_qualification_1_2129412 |title=Asbestos expert lied about his qualifications |work=[[Yorkshire Evening Post]] |location=York |first=Geoff |last=Fox |date=30 August 2005 |access-date=4 April 2010}}</ref>

===Global warming===
Booker said that the [[Climate Change Act 2008]] was "the most expensive piece of legislation ever put through Parliament", and likely to cost hundreds of billions over the next 40 years.<ref name="Booker  Telegraph ">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7550164/Climate-Change-Act-has-the-biggest-ever-bill.html |date=4 April 2010 |title=Climate Change Act has the biggest ever bill |author=Christopher Booker |work=[[The Sunday Telegraph]] |access-date=4 April 2010 |location=London}}</ref> In May 2009, Booker spoke at an [[International Conference on Climate Change]] organised by [[The Heartland Institute]].<ref>{{cite news |author-link=George Monbiot |last=Monbiot |first=George |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2012/feb/24/christopher-booker-heartland-climate |title=Environment: George Monbiot's Blog: Anything to declare, Mr Booker? We need transparency about Heartland |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=24 February 2012}}</ref> In the autumn of 2009, he published ''[[The Real Global Warming Disaster]]''. The book, which became his best-selling work, claims that there is not actually a consensus on climate change, and postulates that the measures taken by governments to [[climate change mitigation|combat climate change]] "will turn out to be one of the most expensive, destructive, and foolish mistakes the human race has ever made".<ref name="Booker-342">{{harvnb |Booker|2009| p=342}}</ref> The book was characterised by [[Philip Ball]] in ''[[The Observer]]'' as being as "the definitive climate sceptics' manual", in which "he has rounded up just about every criticism ever made of the majority scientific view that global warming, most probably caused by human activity, is under way, and presented them unchallenged".<ref name="guardian.co.uk">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/15/real-global-warming-christopher-booker |date=15 November 2009 |title=The Real Global Warming Disaster by Christopher Booker |author=Philip Ball |author-link=Philip Ball |work=The Observer |access-date=9 January 2014 |location=London}}</ref>

Ball said that Booker's position required the reader to believe that "1) Most of the world's climate scientists, for reasons unspecified, decided to create a myth about human-induced global warming and have managed to twist endless measurements and computer models to fit their case, without the rest of the scientific community noticing. George W Bush and certain oil companies have, however, seen through the deception. 2) Most of the world's climate scientists are incompetent and have grossly misinterpreted their data and models, yet their faulty conclusions are not, as you might imagine, a random chaos of assertions, but all point in the same direction."<ref name="guardian.co.uk"/>

In December 2009, Christopher Booker and [[Richard North (blogger)|Richard North]] had published an article in ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' in which they questioned whether [[Rajendra Pachauri]], chair of the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC), was using his position for personal gain,<ref>Christopher Booker and Richard North [https://web.archive.org/web/20091222011621/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climate-change-guru-Dr-Rajendra-Pachauri.html "Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri"], ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'', 20 December 2009 </ref><ref name=apol/><ref name=GM260810>George Monbiot [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/aug/26/rajendra-pachauri-financial-relationships "Rajendra Pachauri innocent of financial misdealings but smears will continue"], ''The Guardian'', 26 August 2010</ref> with a follow-up ''Telegraph'' article in January 2010.<ref name=followup>Christopher Booker and Richard North [https://web.archive.org/web/20100121012506/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7007891/The-curious-case-of-the-expanding-environmental-group-with-falling-income.html "The curious case of the expanding environmental group with falling income"], ''Sunday Telegraph'', 17 January 2010</ref> On 21 August 2010, ''The Daily Telegraph'' issued an apology,<ref name=apol>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7957631/Dr-Pachauri-Apology.html Dr Pachauri – Apology], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 21 August 2010</ref> and withdrew the December article from their website<ref name=GM260810/> having reportedly paid legal fees running into six figures.<ref name=GM260810/> Pachauri described the statements against him as "another attempt by the climate sceptics to discredit the IPCC."<ref>[https://archive.today/20130103020626/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Daily-Telegraph-apologises-to-Pachauri-over-an-article-alleging-corruption/Article1-589993.aspx "Daily Telegraph apologises to Pachauri"], ''[[Hindustan Times]]'', 21 August 2010</ref>

===Family courts===
Booker wrote a number of articles raising concerns about the Family Court system in England and Wales. Booker championed the cause of Victoria Haigh, bringing him into further conflict with the judiciary.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8727312/Judge-Wall-the-secrecy-rules-and-another-stinging-attack.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Christopher | last=Booker | title=Judge Wall, the secrecy rules, and another stinging attack | date=27 August 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10037048/A-mother-sent-to-prison-on-evidence-she-cannot-see.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Christopher | last=Booker | title=A mother sent to prison on evidence she cannot see | date=4 May 2013}}</ref> Booker also championed the cause of Marie Black, who fled the UK with her partner and daughter in order to evade social services.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/10436941/Another-couple-flee-to-France-only-to-have-their-baby-taken-away.html Another couple flee to France only to have their baby taken away] Written by Christopher Booker, published by The Daily Telegraph on 9 November 2013, retrieved on 11 July 2019</ref>

==Death==
Booker died on 3 July 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/04/christopher-booker-obituary|title=Christopher Booker obituary|first=Stephen|last=Bates|newspaper=The Guardian |date=4 July 2019|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> On 12 July he was featured in the [[BBC Radio 4]] obituary programme ''[[Last Word]].''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0006n1k|title=Last Word - Eva Kor, Christopher Booker, João Gilberto, John McCririck - BBC Sounds|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
*''The Neophiliacs: A Study of the Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties'' (1969).
*''Goodbye London'' (with [[Candida Lycett Green]]) (1979).
*''The Seventies: Portrait Of A Decade'' (1980).
*''The Games War: A Moscow Journal'' (1981).
*''The Mad Officials: How The Bureaucrats Are Strangling Britain'' (with [[Richard North (blogger)|Richard North]], 1994).
*''The Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must get Out of Europe'' (with [[Richard North (blogger)|Richard North]], 1996).{{ISBN|0715626930}}
*''A Looking-Glass Tragedy. The Controversy Over The Repatriations From Austria in 1945'', London, United Kingdom, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, First Edition (1997).
*''[[The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive?|The Great Deception]]'' (with [[Richard North (blogger)|Richard North]], 2003), London: [[Continuum Publishing]].
*''[[The Seven Basic Plots|The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories]]'' (2004).
*''Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth'' (with [[Richard North (blogger)|Richard North]], 2007), London: Continuum. {{ISBN|0-8264-8614-2}}.
*''Climategate to Cancun: The Real Global Warming Disaster Continues...'' (with [[Richard North (blogger)|Richard North]], 2010), London: Continuum.
* {{cite book
  | last = Booker
  | first = Christopher
  | title = The Real Global Warming Disaster
  | publisher = Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
  | year = 2009
  | isbn = 978-1-4411-1052-7
  | url-access = registration
  | url = https://archive.org/details/realglobalwarmin0000book
  }}
*''[[Groupthink]]: A Study in Self Delusion'' ( 2020), London: Bloomsbury. {{ISBN|1472959051}}.

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==External links==
* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/ Christopher Booker] at telegraph.co.uk {{subscription required}}
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