Derek Turner is a freelance journalist

Journalist

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. In the early 1980s he served in the Irish Navy and moved to England

England

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 in 1988.

Derek Turner was editor of Right Now! magazine from 1995 until its demise in December 2006. He is now editor of The Quarterly Review, and a contributing editor to AlternativeRight.com an online magazine which seeks to "forge a new intellectual right-wing".

Turner's writings have been translated into 12 languages. He has written for a wide range of journals, including The Times

The Times

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, Literary Review

Literary Review

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, Salisbury Review

Salisbury Review

The Salisbury Review is a British conservative magazine, published quarterly and founded in 1982. Roger Scruton was its chief editor for eighteen years and published it through his Claridge Press. It was named after Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, the British Prime Minister at the...

, and The Sunday Telegraph, and writes regular articles for the U.S.

United States

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 paleoconservative

Paleoconservatism

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 magazine Chronicles

Chronicles (magazine)

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 and the German

Germany

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 newspaper Junge Freiheit

Junge Freiheit

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. He has also taken part in debates at Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 and Durham

Durham University

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 Universities and spoken at many conferences in the UK

United Kingdom

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and overseas.