THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
January/February 2012
'Backward-leaning leftist populism is on the rise. All the old slogans of the 1980s — "Tory scum" and so on — are making a return'
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December 2011
'Speaking of the Tea Party and other he dislikes, George Soros refers to "powerful and well-financed special interests". I do a double-take'
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November 2011
‘One thing bothers me. Why were the papers that used to support the Conservatives so eager to turn on Liam Fox?’
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October 2011
‘The dance floor at the wedding of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson would have been the Guardian’s worst nightmare’
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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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