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Hearing sober prophet of doom John Gray speak is always a relief #WU12

In the late 1980s, John N. Gray (South Shields, 1948) was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher - Gray: "I was just a small mote of dust in her administration" - now he is a fierce critic of all things neoconservative. On Writers Unlimited, publicist Bas Heijne felt him out.

Gray is a political philosopher, former lecturer at the prestigious London School of Economics, iconoclast, taoist, prophet of doom and author of magisterially sharp, but at flea...

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Daniel Bertina

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In the late 1980s, John N. Gray (South Shields, 1948) was an adviser to Margaret Thatcher - Gray: "I was just a small mote of dust in her administration" - now he is a fierce critic of all things neoconservative. On Writers Unlimited, publicist Bas Heijne felt him out.

Gray is a political philosopher, former lecturer at the prestigious London School of Economics, iconoclast, taoist, prophet of doom and author of magisterially sharp, but at flea...

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