THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
September 2011
'The nervous police again demonstrated their institutional failing when they were chased by ever more confident mobs'
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July/August 2011
‘The more information is available from the new media, the fewer critical questions we seem able to ask’
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May 2011
'Only the West can botch anything up. And when the rest of the world botches things up, it's the West's fault for making them do it'
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April 2011
‘Rumsfeld knew we faced enemies and that they should be defeated. It is a lesson his successors could do with learning fast’
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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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