From 1992 he focused more on the role played in British life by bureaucratic regulation and the European Union, forming a professional collaboration with Dr Richard North, and they subsequently co-authored a series of books, including "The Mad Officials: How The Bureaucrats Are Strangling Britain" (1994); "The Castle of Lies" (1996); "The Great Deception" (2003), a critical history of the European Union; and "Scared To Death: From BSE To Global Warming, Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth " (2007), a study of the part played in Western society in recent decades by the 'scare phenomenon'.