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Douglas Murray

Дата рождения: July 16, 1979 – London, England, United Kingdom

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Douglas Murray is a British author and journalist whose work focuses on politics, culture, immigration, identity, and the defense of liberal democracies. He is known for The Strange Death of Europe, The Madness of Crowds, and The War on the West, several of which became bestselling books in the United Kingdom.

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Douglas Murray was born in 1979 and came through a mixed educational path that he has described as formative: local state schools, a smaller independent school reached through music, a sixth-form scholarship to Eton, and then Oxford. The first decisive turn in his career came unusually early. His debut book, Bosie, a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, was published in 2000 while he was still an undergraduate, giving him an immediate literary reputation and later earning the 2001 Lambda award for gay biography. That beginning matters because it shows the pattern that has defined much of his career: an early confidence with archives, cultural history, and argument, combined with a willingness to enter contested subjects without much hesitation. ((https://spectator.com/article/chance-of-a-lifetime/))

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It’s important that people who come to your burning home look like you
-The day DEI went up in smoke
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For the students busily cosplaying at being terrorists on our city’s campuses
-College idiots calling for ‘Intifada’ have no idea how many innocents have died from that word
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The first is the injection of implausible claims into our society
-In a world gone mad, elites keep peddling untruths
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All the evidence shows that cloth masks do nothing to ward off the virus
-Don’t hold your breath for end of mask insanity
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One of the few things I have learned in this life is that Dante Alighieri was wrong
-Work is no place for your ‘whole self’
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I’m very used to doing events with my enemies and spend rather too much time with them
-Full transcript: Douglas Murray in conversation with Roger Scruton
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Every philosopher they admire deconstructed the idea of truth for decades
-Full transcript: Douglas Murray in conversation with Roger Scruton
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I want the Conservative party to be punished, and yet the instruments of punishment are unappealing
-Things can always get worse

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"Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech"

Jordan B. Peterson

"That it is written with Douglas Murray's usual literary elegance and waspish humour does not make it any less depressing"

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"Whether one agrees with him or not, Douglas Murray is one of the most important public intellectuals today"

Bernard-Henri Lévy

"Such a work is Douglas Murray's tremendous and shattering book, The Strange Death of Europe"

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"By far the most compelling political book of the year was Douglas Murray's The Strange Death of Europe"

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"As a public intellectual, Douglas Murray has concentrated on the most current cultural affairs with an historical perspective and a political acumen"

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