Christopher Booker's Blog, page 5

BBC: don't mention the deficit

The BBC's attitude to the deficit is similar to that of Basil Fawlty on 'the war'

Sentimental headlines mask child 'protection' big business

Is there not something questionable about the way tabloids can advertise winsome pictures of children needing adoption?

Why the Paris climate treaty will be the flop of the year

The chief obstacle to such an agreement is exactly the same as it was at Kyoto in 1997

David Cameron has no clue about our 'care' industry

But no one is better placed than his new head of policy to tell him what is really going on in the murky underworld of 'child protection'

The unknown hand in Margaret Thatcher's victories

Illuminating details about the Falklands crisis and the 1984-85 miners' strike are still emerging

Geoffrey Howe destroyed 700 years of parliamentary sovereignty at a stroke

His inspiration was to work out that any directive from Brussels could automatically be made UK law

Our 'Snatch' campaign is still saving soldiers' lives

Snatch Land Rovers were horribly unprotected against roadside bombs in which nearly 40 men would eventually be sent to their deaths

Met Office shown to be wrong by its own data

In recent years the organisation's forecasts have become skewed by its obsession with global warming

QC calls for ruling to outlaw climate change 'denial'

An international conference of top judges hears calls for opinion that contradicts climate change to be made illegal

Judges plan to outlaw climate change 'denial'

A semi-secret, international conference of top judges proposed to make illegal any opinion that contradicted climate change