Christopher Booker
Christopher Booker | |
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| Born | Christopher John Penrice Book 7 October 1937 |
| Died | 3 July 2019 (aged 81) |
| Education | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
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| Known for | Co-founder of Private Eye |
| Spouse(s) | Emma Tennant (1963–68); Christine Verity (m. 1972); Valerie Patrick (m. 1979) |
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 satirical magazine Private Eye in 1961. From 1990 onwards, he was a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph. In 2009, he published The Real Global Warming Disaster. He also disputed the link between passive smoking and cancer, and the dangers posed by asbestos. In his Sunday Telegraph section, he frequently commented on the UK Family Courts and Social Services.
In collaboration with Richard North, Booker wrote a variety of publications advancing a Eurosceptic, though academically disputed, popular historiography of the European Union. The best-known of these is The Great Deception.