How the first world war inspired the EU
Christopher Booker has died at the age of 81. In 2014, he wrote in The Spectator about how the first…
Maths and masterpieces
The Indian inspiration with which Piero della Francesca created ‘the greatest picture in the world’
‘Instant wildlife – just add water’
The ideology that created an unnatural disaster
The 100-year plot
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
If you’re looking for the year when the old England died, this was it
The battle of the bushmen
Botswana’s shame – and ours
A unique capacity for personal egotism
It is peculiarly apt that the author of this autobiography should be the man who coined that now fashionable term…
Of ants and men
His publishers describe this ‘ground-breaking book on evolution’ by ‘the most celebrated living heir to Darwin’ as ‘the summa work…












