Writing about monkeypox in The Spectator in May 2022, Douglas Murray repeated a formula he had put forward in 2020, explaining ‘the problem with us humans as a species’: ‘Someone always shags a monkey.’
Now an outbreak of new, improved monkeypox is upon us, and the first thought has been to avoid stigmatising monkeys.
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