THE OUTSIDER'S DIARY
May 2013
‘I am bemused by those vociferous critics of Mrs Thatcher who weren’t even alive when she was in office’
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April 2013
‘The Athens shopping mall is full of young people buying the latest mobile phones and gadgets. So much about this recession remains confusing’
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January/February 2013
‘After an evening’s drinking a friend woke up to find he had gone to bed with George Bernard Shaw’
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December 2012
‘As the Petraeus story develops, I am left wondering: is the new American morality that one should love the sin, yet hate the sinner?’
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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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