THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
April 2017
"This must have been the first oration by a book-burner at Cambridge University for some centuries"
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March 2017
"From Hollywood to Holyrood, people think they are fighting the Nazis. But they’re not"
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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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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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