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.The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories

by: Christopher Booker

November 10, 2005
There are only three kinds of journey: the ones when you start out, and finish somewhere else; the ones where you finish back where you started; and the journeys where you go from one place, and then go on to another. With that you have what you need to understand the essence of travel. Or perhaps you don't, because you just might think that there are some other important issues to bear in mind - like where you're going, what you see or what you do on the way. That's the central problem with Christopher Booker's work. Booker does say something worthwhile about many stories, and he does point to things that many stories have in common: but it's a moot point whether what he tells us about stories is what actually matters about them.
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.Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth

by: Christopher Booker, Richard North

November 10, 2007
As someone who studied the history of BSE in great detail I can assure you that the public 'scare' was based not on journalistic sensationalism but very hard science. The scientific evidence of the transmissibility of prion diseases across species barriers had been uniquivocally established by that time. That fact was carefully kept from the public in order to safeguard the beef industry. By whom? Senior officials responsible for public safety. Disinformation was advocated among senior officials with respect to the scientific evidence. It is amply documented. I know an organic butcher who pioneered the sale of organic meat many years ago before the supermarkets stocked it. During the BSE crisis he was visited by men in suits who gently advised him not to ... Read More:
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.The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive?

by: Christopher Booker, Richard North

December 01, 2005
I began reading this book knowing relatively little about the EU's history and purpose. By the time I had finished it however, I felt like I had gained a perfect (and frightening) understanding of the Union's true nature. This is not a project based on pragmatism and open-mindedness, but one fuelled by ruthless ideological determination.

Anyone who wishes to obtain an understanding of the European Union should read this fascinating book.
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.The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union

by: Christopher Booker, Richard North

November 13, 2003
I am currently re-reading this book 3 years on. It still reads well although the immense shock of the first read has obviously gone.

In my opinion, it is useful to see the EU simplistically - for the purposes of projecting its behaviours - as a club run by bullies/ a gang whose rules are those you have to sign up to in order to join - you don't get to make any changes to the rules and can't look for any charity from bullies. How do bullies act? Well, one key area is: What's yours is theirs and what's theirs is theirs - and as you do more of their bidding, the lies and deceit make it difficult for you to get out. But all along your resources are being drained until you have to find more money from those who can least afford it - in the case of the EU it's us the ... Read More:
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.The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union

by: Christopher Booker, Richard North

March 17, 2005
`The Great Deception' reads like a John LeCarré spy thriller. From its inception, the European project has been the biggest con game in town, its beneficiaries being the weak economies in Europe's garlic belt, led by France.
From the wholesale destruction of Britain's fishing industry and agriculture to the myriads of nauseating bureaucratic regulation killing off small businesses, the book sets out in almost irritating detail how, each step of the way, politicians who did not have a clue what they were up against, signed away, bit by bit and parcel by parcel, their national sovereignty, all the time not even pretending, but actually believing they were acting in their country's best interests.
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.Neophiliacs, The: Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties

by: Christopher Booker

1970-04
`The Great Deception' reads like a John LeCarré spy thriller. From its inception, the European project has been the biggest con game in town, its beneficiaries being the weak economies in Europe's garlic belt, led by France.
From the wholesale destruction of Britain's fishing industry and agriculture to the myriads of nauseating bureaucratic regulation killing off small businesses, the book sets out in almost irritating detail how, each step of the way, politicians who did not have a clue what they were up against, signed away, bit by bit and parcel by parcel, their national sovereignty, all the time not even pretending, but actually believing they were acting in their country's best interests.
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.Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must Get Out of Europe

by: Christopher Booker, Richard North

April 10, 1997
Anyone familiar with Booker and North's columns in the Telegraph newspaper titles will know what to expect from this book.

The amount of research that the pair have done for this book is amazing, and I do not envy one bit the task of trawling through the endless heap of European directives, but sadly this attention to detail makes it rather heavy going. Even as a Politics undergraduate I struggled to finish the book, and as someone naturally suspicious of the EU I found myself put off by the tone of the text. It is quite simply too heavily biased - we are never in doubt as to where Booker and North stand on the Euro spectrum, but I see little need to hammer the point home so fervently - in parts you might think you were reading something in the school of Michael Moore.
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.Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming - Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth: From BSE to Global Warming - Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth

by: Christopher Booker, Richard North

February 01, 2009
As someone who studied the history of BSE in great detail I can assure you that the public 'scare' was based not on journalistic sensationalism but very hard science. The scientific evidence of the transmissibility of prion diseases across species barriers had been uniquivocally established by that time. That fact was carefully kept from the public in order to safeguard the beef industry. By whom? Senior officials responsible for public safety. Disinformation was advocated among senior officials with respect to the scientific evidence. It is amply documented. I know an organic butcher who pioneered the sale of organic meat many years ago before the supermarkets stocked it. During the BSE crisis he was visited by men in suits who gently advised him not to talk to his customers about it. ... Read More:
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.The Seventies

by: Christopher Booker

1980-02
As someone who studied the history of BSE in great detail I can assure you that the public 'scare' was based not on journalistic sensationalism but very hard science. The scientific evidence of the transmissibility of prion diseases across species barriers had been uniquivocally established by that time. That fact was carefully kept from the public in order to safeguard the beef industry. By whom? Senior officials responsible for public safety. Disinformation was advocated among senior officials with respect to the scientific evidence. It is amply documented. I know an organic butcher who pioneered the sale of organic meat many years ago before the supermarkets stocked it. During the BSE crisis he was visited by men in suits who gently advised him not to talk to his customers about it. ... Read More:
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.The Neophiliacs: Revolution in English Life in the Fifties and Sixties

by: Christopher Booker

1992-12
Simply the best book on the 50s and 60s in Britain that I have come across. Well-researched and incisive, the author recounts (and contextualises) the heady excesses that characterised the era with a detached, trenchant amusement that had me laughing out loud on several occasions. Intellectually impressive and eminently readable, I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in the period.
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