Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The Spectator
19 July 2025

The pointlessness of ‘smashing the gangs’

Until recently, The Bell in Epping was simply a three-star hotel with a pleasant-looking breakfast buffet…

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The Spectator
12 July 2025

My tips to avoid arrest by the Met

Another way to have avoided police attention would be for him to have stolen a bike or nicked a phone

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The New York Post
10 July 2025

Mamdani just latest mayor wannabe who thinks they can police the world

Should a mayor have a foreign policy? It’s a curious thing to have. After all, a mayor might have some control over the police force. But they don’t have F-15s or B-2 bombers at their command. So why do certain candidates talk as though they do?

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The Spectator
5 July 2025

Who really built this country?

The suggestion is that the British were an essentially bad people until the noble migrants came to rescue us.

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The New York Post
3 July 2025

Will NYC fall for the selfie-entitled Zohran Mamdani?

There are plenty of excuses that can be made for how New York ever had this woeful candidate put before us.

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The Spectator
28 June 2025

The dangers of toxic femininity

Everything is about ‘understanding’, ‘listening’, ‘speaking for’ and ‘alleviating’ the suffering of others

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The New York Post
26 June 2025

Standing up to bullying, unscientific transgender activist mob

Almost no one does wicked things in the knowledge that what they are doing is wicked. It is a truth that should be universally acknowledged that in order to do something truly evil, a person needs to believe that what they are doing is good.

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The Spectator
21 June 2025

What else could Israel do?

Anybody who wants peace should have spent recent years trying to stop the Iranian regime in its tracks

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The New York Post
19 June 2025

President Trump can end the nuclear threat from Iran with one phone call

Ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, successive Iranian leaders — both so-called “moderate” and extreme — have all said that they wish to annihilate the state of Israel and destroy the United States of America.

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The Spectator
14 June 2025

How to ruin a city

If you encourage lawlessness you can be seen to be doing it for all the right reasons

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The New York Post
12 June 2025

Democrats Newsom and Bass have destroyed America’s Golden State

It is only five months since California last burned down. That happened while Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was away on a foreign jaunt, and Gov. Gavin Newsom took the brilliant opportunity to have himself photographed as his state burned.

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The Spectator
7 June 2025

Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain

One rather hopes the government would favour the interests of this country over any others

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