Douglas Murray Douglas Murray

Antisocial media

Any remaining grown-ups in the land ought to see past these daily online frenzies

issue 27 July 2019

Two considerable injustices were undone this week. The first was the reinstatement of Sir Roger Scruton to the government’s ‘Building better, building beautiful’ commission. The second was the prosecution of Carl Beech for fraud and perverting the course of justice. The cases may be very far apart in their details, but their origins lie in precisely the same contemporary malady.

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