THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
July/August 2014
‘I wonder whether people would take Pastor Martin Niemöller's poem seriously in a version beginning "First they came for the tombola . . ."?'
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June 2014
"First Peres, then Netanyahu, and other Israeli leaders sing. They all have passably good voices-a nation in the strangest surroundings enjoying itself"
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May 2014
‘Why can’t we alter the conversation on art from “But is it art?” to “Is it any good?”’
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April 2014
‘I have always held that everything to do with “interfaith dialogue” should be regarded with intense suspicion’
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The Outsider's Diary
The monthly column on politics, the public sphere and foreign policy, by Douglas Murray, Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion
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