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Booker: The European project is splitting apart at the very core (10)

A gulf is growing between France and Germany over the future of the eurozone. Behind all the spin, smoke and fury of recent days, we see unfolding the greatest crisis in the history of the “European project”. What is emerging … Continue reading

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Booker: Europe cannot save the euro, nor save itself from the euro (15)

The deflated apparatchiks of the EU watch powerlessly as a tragedy unfolds It is customary at this time to act like two-faced Janus, looking back at the year that has passed while predicting what may happen in the one ahead. … Continue reading

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Booker: A devastating report lays bare the BBC’s endemic bias on global warming (3)

From its breathtaking footage of killer whales hunting in packs to the scenes of penguins swimming with balletic grace under the sea ice, Sir David Attenborough’s BBC series Frozen Planet has been acclaimed as perhaps the most riveting sequence of … Continue reading

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Booker: The EU dream has turned into a nightmare (12)

It was hard to know – as the danse macabre of the euro spirals towards its devastating denouement – which of last week’s utterances and events was the maddest. First, there was the speech by European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, in … Continue reading

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Booker: Wind farms – the monuments to lunacy that will be left to blot the landscape

Three separate news items on the same day last week reflected three different aspects of what is fast becoming a full-scale disaster bearing down on Britain. The first item was a picture in The Daily Telegraph showing two little children … Continue reading

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Booker: The Blitz hero who shows us what today’s Britain has lost

Before our attention was diverted by recent events, I was meditating on an episode from the most famous time when London’s sky was licked with flames and its streets strewn with rubble. In November 1940, when the threat to law … Continue reading

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Booker: Rajendra Pachauri is back to tell us – Trust me

One of the more bizarre episodes of the week was the arrival in London of Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as part of what appears to be a concerted bid to rehabilitate the … Continue reading

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Booker: Proof that the Government is tilting at windmills (1)

In the week when it was reported that 20 per cent of the EU’s fast-soaring, trillion-euro budget may soon be spent on “fighting climate change”, it was timely that Britain’s energy companies should have met with the Department of Energy … Continue reading

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Booker: Where Greece goes now, we will soon follow (3)

At last the penny seems to be dropping that the chaos mounting over Greece’s problems with the euro is by far the most serious crisis that the great European “project” has ever faced. As their sad, bewildered faces show whenever … Continue reading

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