THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
December/January 2016/17
"After a year such as this, even shocks now fail to surprise"
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November 2016
"Politics goes bad when ideas go bad and the ideas have gone bad in Europe because free speech went bad"
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October 2016
"One of the principles of public service is that it does not just consist of a race to the top with the resignation of those who lose"
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September 2016
"Theresa May’s safe pair of hands seems a great blessing after the vacuum Cameron and Osborne left us in"
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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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