Christopher Booker
English journalist and author (1937–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 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.