Editing Christopher Booker (section)

{{Short description|English journalist and author (1937–2019)}}
{{Other people|Chris Booker}}
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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''.