THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
September 2015
"Jeremy Corbyn is a polite, decent and evidently sincere man encumbered by lunatic beliefs. On BBC Question Time he attributed the beach massacre in Tunisia to 'austerity'"
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July/August 2015
‘Is the transformation of Kim Jong-un into an ugly minor celebrity, whom everyone can laugh at, our way of coping — or a demonstration of a barbarous flippancy?’
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June 2015
‘I have always kept a special portion of my spleen dedicated to loathing the Liberal Democrats’
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April 2015
‘In addressing inequality we should be careful not to wage war on those elite visions of life, such as the Getty Villa in LA, that do so much to alleviate its mundanity’
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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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