Richard D. North

Richard D North, born 1946, is a writer and blogger.

His "The Right-wing Guide to Nearly Everything" (2012) is an eBook in Kindle on Amazon. ("A brilliant idea", wrote Niall Ferguson. Andrew Roberts wrote that the book is "Witty, hard-hitting, accurate and immensely politically sound".

RDN was a fellow of the Social Affairs Unit, the home of conservative cultural thought, and was media fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs, the free market think tank.

RDN's "Mr Cameron's Makeover Politics: Or why old Tory stories matter to us all" (SAU, 2009) and is available on Kindle.

Other books include "'Scrap the BBC!': Ten years to set broadcasting free" (SAU, 2007); "Mr Blair's Messiah Politics: Or what happened when Bambi tried to save the world" (SAU, 2006); "Rich Is Beautiful: A very personal defence of Mass Affluence" (SAU, 2005).

RDN's "Life On a Modern Planet: A manifesto for progress" (Manchester University Press, 1995) summed up 25 years of his preoccupation with every sort of "green" issue.

Earlier books (as Richard North) were "The Animals Report : A controversial inquiry into the use and abuse of animals" (Penguin, 1983), "The Real Cost" (Chatting & Windus, 1986) was an eco-account of consumer goods, "Fools for God (Collins, 1987) was an account of Christian male monasticism.

In the late 80's RDN was the Independent's (and then the Sunday Times') environment and Third World development columnist.

1980-2015 he frequently appeared on The Big Questions, Sunday Morning Live, Today, Newsnight, The Moral Maze, the Jeremy Vine Show, Channel 4 News and Sky TV, as a defender of capitalism, globalisation, representative democracy and any other topic where the soft left liberal green orthodoxy needed to be challenged.