Editing Christopher Booker (section)

===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).