THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
April 2016
"Our decent desire to be polite, combined with our indecent concessions to fear, make reform of Islam less likely"
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March 2016
‘If we do leave the EU, it should be more in a spirit of regret than of celebration’
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January/February 2016
"Perhaps it isn’t surprising that skin colour became a state of mind in a year when gender already had"
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December 2015
"And what — beyond grief — can European citizens do after Paris? Can we be anything more than mourners at our own funeral?"
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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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