Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he regularly contributed, and also wrote a longstanding column for the Sunday Telegraph. His bestselling books include The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, The Real Global Warming Disaster, The Great Deception, The Mad Officials, Scared to Death and The Neophiliacs. Booker died in July 2019.
Preface
Introduction: The Rules of Groupthink
PART I: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS - A FIRST CAST STUDY
1 The Origins of Political Correctness
2 Hatred and Make-Believe Rule, OK?
3 The Real Nature of 'Political Correctness'
PART II: GROUPTHINK AND TIMES OF CHANGE - A DETOUR INTO HISTORY
4 Times of Change: How Dreams become Nightmares
5 The 'Fantasy Cycle' and the 'Swinging Sixties'
6 Groupthink and the 'European Project'
7 Global Warming
8 The Strange Story of Darwinism
A Conclusion by Richard North
Afterword by Nicholas Booker
Index
Preface Introduction: The Rules of Groupthink PART I: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS - A FIRST CAST STUDY 1 The Origins of Political Correctness 2 Hatred and Make-Believe Rule, OK? 3 The Real Nature of 'Political Correctness' PART II: GROUPTHINK AND TIMES OF CHANGE - A DETOUR INTO HISTORY 4 Times of Change: How Dreams become Nightmares 5 The 'Fantasy Cycle' and the 'Swinging Sixties' 6 Groupthink and the 'European Project' 7 Global Warming 8 The Strange Story of Darwinism A Conclusion by Richard North Afterword by Nicholas Booker Index
