Christopher Booker (born 1938) is an English journalist and editor. He was a founding editor of Private Eye at the height of the British Satire Boom; he was forced out in the magazine's early days by Richard Ingrams. In the late 1960s he wrote The Neophiliacs, a critical review of the media response to the cultural changes of the period 1954-1964, and one of the first books on the decade to take a 'disabused' line. 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 4, 2005 cover of Private Eye; this is a typical example of the magazines front cover. ... The satire boom is a general term to describe the emergence of a generation of English satirical writers, journalists and performers at the end of the 1950s. ... Richard Ingrams (born 1937) was the second editor of British satirical magazine-cum-newspaper, Private Eye, taking over from Christopher Booker. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...

He has pursued a journalistic career, particularly with anti-EU commentary, as a columnist.