THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
May 2012
'While discussing sex education it emerges that Doncaster has the highest rate of STIs in the UK. I turn down an offer to hit the town'
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April 2012
‘The law of the land should just allow any two people who wish publicly to commit to each other to do so. It is called civil marriage’
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March 2012
‘There is only one thing the Leveson inquiry needs to discover: how did the law come to be broken repeatedly and publicly, with impunity?’
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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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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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