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The late Christopher Booker, a prolific British newspaper columnist and author, was a self-confessed challenger of prevailing orthodoxies and conventional wisdoms. He railed against the European Union, the belief that human activity causes global warming, the lengths that political correctness is being taken to in Western societies, and campaigns for the removal of “offensive” statues of historical figures across the world (such as the coloniser Cecil Rhodes in South Africa and Confederate notables in the American South).
Booker, who died in July 2019 and did not live to see the publication of Groupthink (it was completed by Richard North, a collaborator
