Christopher Booker

How the first world war inspired the EU

3 July 2019 11:35 pm

Christopher Booker has died at the age of 81. In 2014, he wrote in The Spectator about how the first…

Della Francesca’s ‘Resurrection’

Maths and masterpieces

19 April 2014 9:00 am

The Indian inspiration with which Piero della Francesca created ‘the greatest picture in the world’

‘Instant wildlife – just add water’

15 February 2014 9:00 am

The ideology that created an unnatural disaster

The 100-year plot

8 February 2014 9:00 am

To understand the real meaning of the EU, you must grasp that it originated in the first world war, rather than the second

It all began in 1963

23 November 2013 9:00 am

If you’re looking for the year when the old England died, this was it

The battle of the bushmen

26 October 2013 9:00 am

Botswana’s shame – and ours

A unique capacity for personal egotism

21 September 2013 9:00 am

It is peculiarly apt that the author of this autobiography should be the man who coined that now fashionable term…

Of ants and men

7 September 2013 9:00 am

His publishers describe this ‘ground-breaking book on evolution’ by ‘the most celebrated living heir to Darwin’ as ‘the summa work…