This book tells for the first time one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using a wealth of examples,
‘It is becoming more and more obvious that it is not starvation, it is not microbes, it is not cancer but man himself who is his greatest danger: because he has no adequate protection against psychic
Newly revised and updated in the light of COVID-19For most of the latter part of the last century, and the early part of this, Britain has been assailed by a succession of 'scares', from salmonella an
In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today.Wi
Angela Merkel has described the crisis of 2020 as the worst the EU has ever known. Yet the EU has responded by showing its essential weakness. In practice it should have had a coordinated comprehensiv
This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that mankind faced catastrophe from ru
From salmonella in eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird ‘flu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming, ‘scares' have become one of the most conspicuous an
Two global warming skeptics argue that the fight against apparent global warming has become an unstoppable force based on emotion rather than science, exploring the politics, netotiations, and scienti
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2003 book. Booker (a writer with the Sunday Telegraph) and North (formerly research director for the European Parliament's Europe of Democracies and Diversities group
Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging feature
Ministry of Defeat is a devastating account of military and strategic incompetence. When Tony Blair insisted that British Armed Forces form part of the invasion of Iraq, little attention was paid as t
