Richard North (blogger)
Richard North is a right-wing blogger who runs this blog. "He is a full-time parliamentary researcher with a PhD and has also worked for newspapers (currently researching for the Sunday Telegraph) since 1992."
On 13 August 2006, North blogged about the veracity of the eponymous photographs of the rescuers after the Israeli bombing of Qana. North's contention is that the photos were staged. On 14 August 2006, North's story was a key part of a BBC Newsnight special section on the manipulation of images coming out of a conflict zone. The transcript can be read here. Note that these questions about the veracity of these photos was widely circulated by LittleGreenFootballs, the right-wing blog.
From the Bruges Group biography:
After a brief career in the Royal Air Force, Richard North became a local government officer and then ran his own
consultancy business for two decades. He then moved into trade politics and thence to the European Parliament as research director for the group of European Democracies and Diversities.
Through this professional work, Richard obtained first hand experience of the damaging effects of Brussels directives and their interpretation by UK officials on British businesses, and has gained an unrivalled insight into the workings of the European Union.
Along with Christopher Booker the Sunday Telegraph columnist, he is the co-author of The Great Deception, the seminal history of the European Union. Dr North has also written two bookson bureaucracy and the EU, with Christopher Booker, and one on the death of British agriculture.
Affiliations
- The Bruges Group – Commentator
- European Democracies and Diversities -- researcher
- EuroReferendum Blog -- main blogger
- Telegraph Group
