Douglas Murray: Why the ongoing culture wars are an attack on Western civilisation

Douglas Murray: Why the ongoing culture wars are an attack on Western civilisation

Author: The Telegraph May 13, 2022 Duration: 1:02:11

“In recent years it has become clear that there is a war going on: a war on the West.”

This is the opening line to a new book describing the ongoing culture wars as an attack on Western civilisation. To discuss his new book, the War on the West, Douglas Murray joins Steven Edginton.

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