ZCC 2009 AGM Douglas Murray Keynote speaker

ZCC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Mamlock House

Thursday, 10th September 2009 8:00pm (Doors Open at 7:30pm)

GUEST SPEAKER  Douglas Murray
 

All welcome, entrance free

(For security, RSVP by 8th September 2009 to 0161 740 8835)

Douglas Murray is a British freelance journalist and political writer from Lewis, Scotland. Having been appointed in April 2007, he is currently the Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, a think-tank launched by Civitas.

Schooled at St. Benedict's, Ealing and Eton College, Murray went on to read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. During his time there, aged twenty, he published a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas.This was followed by a play, Nightfall, based on Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg's attempts to dissuade Adolf Eichmann from implementing the Final Solution.

In 2005 he published a defence of neoconservatism, Neoconservatism: Why We Need It and undertook a related promotional tour of the United States. During the course of this tour he gave an interview to the New York Sun in which he outlined his "instinctive" support for Israel and was dubbed a "self-described neoconservative and Zionist" as well as "Britain's only neoconservative."

In 2007 he co-authored Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership with Gen. Dr. Klaus Naumann, Gen. John Shalikashvili, Field Marshal The Lord Inge, Adm. Jacques Lanxade, Gen. Henk van den Breemen and Benjamin Bilski.

In 2008 he co-authored Victims of Intimidation: Freedom of Speech within Muslim communities, a report for the Centre for Social Cohesion.

He has appeared the BBC's Question Time, and has written for The Guardian,The Sunday Times and Standpoint.

He is a Trustee of the European Freedom Fund , Member Advisory Board of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, and a  Member of Young Britons' Foundation Speaker.