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The pilot refuses to obtain going until everyone is seated and quiet. When we take off there are raucous cheers. I am on a midday budget-airline flight to Ibiza. Louder cheers welcome the drinks trolleys which are noisily ransacked. Along from my seat a gentleman is reading The Spectator. It transpires we are heading for the equal occasion.
The ceremony takes place on a raked clifftop amphitheatre on the pretty and quiet north side of the island. Boiling sun, cliffs and glittering sea boast the backdrop. Assembled friends and family swelter in the entire lamp glare of the sun. I keep my jacket on. Though this may sound like sunstroke, the ceremony is conducted by Benedict Cumberbatch. As he explains beforehand, he is a longstanding confidant of the grooms and they have asked him to act as celebrant. Though he remarks that this may spell the descent of his acting career into doing children’s parties and bar mitzvahs, what follows is grave, poignant and beautiful. The couple have gone through a civil partnership in London before heading here for the public ceremony. The grooms’ brothers escort them in. There is music, a speech and two readings, including one from Walt W
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray review — why identity politics has gone too far
Why I’ve reported Douglas Murray to the police Douglas Murray's latest is an Alt-right handbook: 300 pages of hateful bile – on white paper, no less
I’ve never reviewed a book before, and I fully intend to obey my editor’s advice and be as impartial as possible. But just to make it clear from the outset, Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds is an abomination. It’s a sustained invective against woke culture, an endeavor to reverse all the hard work of ardent civil rights activists such as Rosa Parks, Mahatma Gandhi and Lily Allen.
It’s essentially an Alt-right handbook, and I don’t contemplate it’s too much to suggest that every reproduce ought to be incinerated. Preferably in a common square or something so that we can all see what happens when fascists try to spread their wicked ideology.
For the best part of 300 pages Murray spews his hateful bile – on white paper, no less – denouncing social justice, identity politics and intersectionality. Even the font has a certain heteronormative quality about it. He rails against “millennial snowflakes” who all “identify as charge helicopters” and how “you can’t say anything anymore” and that “you can go to prison for singing th
“This side might be described (and self-described) not as ‘gay’ but as ‘queer’. It was – and is – the group of people who believe that being attracted to the same sex means more than simply being attracted to the same sex. It is a group of people who believe that organism attracted to the similar sex should merely be the first stage in a wilder journey. The first step not just to getting on with life but to transgressing the normal modes of life. Whereas gays may just want to be accepted like everyone else, queers want to be recognized as fundamentally unlike to everyone else and to use that difference to tear down the kind of order that gays are working to become into.”
― Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
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