http://journalisted.com/christopher-booker en-gb http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/12/eabio112.xml Rarely in political history can there have been such a rapid and dramatic reversal of a received wisdom as we have seen in the past 18 months over biofuels – the cropping of living plants, such as soya beans, wheat and sugar cane, to generate energy. 2008-07-12 14:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/12/eabio112.xml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029551/A-load-hot-air-Why-spending-100bn-windfarms-EU-Labours-greatest-act-lunacy.html Today, a giant new wind turbine soars the height of a London tower block above the Mendip hills where I live in Somerset. 2008-06-26 00:15:00 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029551/A-load-hot-air-Why-spending-100bn-windfarms-EU-Labours-greatest-act-lunacy.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/15/do1502.xml That sensational referendum result from Ireland called the bluff on one of the most shameless confidence tricks in political history. 2008-06-15 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/15/do1502.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/20/do2002.xml As President Bush finally caved in to international pressure last week and committed the US to spending untold billions of dollars on "the fight against global warming", I happened to be in Washington at the same time, talking on the same subject to more than a dozen very lively and opinionated radio shows. 2008-04-20 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/20/do2002.xml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=516969 Yesterday's picture in the Mail of a cascade of icicles in the Yorkshire Dales was a reminder of how cold Britain can be - something many of us have forgotten in this unusually mild winter 2008-02-20 22:08:00 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=516969 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/17/nbook117.xml Tomorrow morning, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips, will preside over what must be the most bizarre and politically fraught case ever brought before him. Sitting with two other judges as the Court of Appeal, he will hear an application from Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, for leave to appeal against an order by the High Court that she and the Government must stop breaking the law - solely to appease the murderous regime in Iran which, apart from all its other crimes, is arming terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2008-02-16 00:00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/17/nbook117.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/10/nbooker110.xml Europe's parliaments rush into impotence 2008-02-10 00:00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/10/nbooker110.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/27/nbook127.xml EU plans to see our economy blown away 2008-01-26 00:00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/27/nbook127.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/20/nbooker120.xml MPs required to ratify Lisbon treaty without reading it 2008-01-19 00:00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/20/nbooker120.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nbook113.xml When the lights go out, you'll know who to blame 2008-01-13 00:00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nbook113.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/30/nbooker130.xml An image which summed up the surreal nature of 2007 as well as any other was a meeting in March of the European Council, at which Tony Blair and his 26 fellow heads of government decided, in the name of fighting global warming, to ban incandescent light bulbs. 2007-12-30 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/30/nbooker130.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/23/nbook123.xml Brown under fire for illegal ban on dissidents 2007-12-23 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/23/nbook123.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/16/nbook116.xml Britain has never concocted a crazier plan 2007-12-16 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/16/nbook116.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/16/eaclimate316.xml Commentary 2007-12-16 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/16/eaclimate316.xml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=502057 When we saw Mr Brown emerging from his surreptitious signing of this treaty, we should have been under no illusions as to the significance of what he has set his hand to 2007-12-14 00:59:00 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=502057 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/nbook109.xml The top six achievements of our new government 2007-12-09 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/09/nbook109.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/02/nbook102.xml Iranian dissidents freed from Straw's 'perverse' ban 2007-12-02 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/02/nbook102.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nfish325.xml Commentary 2007-11-25 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nfish325.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nbook125.xml We are set on a course of 'planet saving' madness 2007-11-25 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nbook125.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/18/nbook118.xml 'Deadly' flu, lively imaginations 2007-11-18 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/18/nbook118.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2007/11/10/mfspeed10.xml In a new book published today, Christopher Booker and Richard North reveal the damage caused by scare stories, from salmonella and satanic child abuse to passive smoking and global warming. Here we publish an edited extract from the chapter on speed - a scare that cost lives 2007-11-10 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2007/11/10/mfspeed10.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/06/eaasbes106.xml From BSE to bird' flu, one of the most conspicuous features of our modern world has been the 'scare' - some threat to human health which becomes vastly exaggerated, provoking a hugely costly political response. 2007-11-06 14:00:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/06/eaasbes106.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/04/nbook104.xml Defra's 'arbitrary lines' bring chaos to sheep farmers 2007-11-04 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/04/nbook104.xml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/04/eaclimate104.xml No one can deny that in recent years the need to "save the planet" from global warming has become one of the most pervasive issues of our time. As Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, claimed in 2004, it poses "a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism", warning that by the end of this century the only habitable continent left will be Antarctica. 2007-11-04 00:01:00 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/04/eaclimate104.xml