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External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
The New York Times feeds anti-Jew hatred with a horrific lie
In a piece which has already been widely debunked, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times claimed that Israeli prison guards routinely use rape as a method of torture on Palestinian prisoners.
Things can always get worse
My own song version might not top the charts as D:Ream’s did, but mine has the benefit of being true. ‘Things Can Always Get Worse’
Douglas Murray: Taxing NYC’s rich is a poor idea — and could bring the Big Apple into financial turmoil
‘Tax the rich!” That used to be the sort of sentiment you might expect from a student who’d just discovered a bit of Marxism and had yet to pay their first tax bill.
The obvious truth about anti-Semitism
There are many ways to do nothing. One is to sit on your hands; another is to call for ‘a conversation’. I have noticed quite a lot of calls for ‘a conversation’ since the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green last week.
Douglas Murray: Tech firms must crack down on mad conspiracy theories destroying society
This isn’t only a problem for social media companies. It is a problem for our democracy. And it is one we need to tackle.
My night under fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
“Demonization” is one of the words of the era, but last Saturday night the effects of demonization took on a fresh aspect
Dems’ favorite podcaster, Hasan Piker, says stealing and murder are OK
At the height of the 2020 riots, a book was published entitled “In Defense of Looting.”
For progressives, ‘ageing’ is the one acceptable slur
Willie Donaldson, who died in 2005, has a claim to having had the best obituary sub-heading of any writer I know. ‘Wykehamist pimp, crack fiend and adulterer who created Henry Root and Beyond the Fringe’ was how the Telegraph memorably summed up his life.
A clash between the pope and Trump was inevitable — but let us not choose between the heart and the head
From the moment that Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV last year, a clash between Rome and Washington was inevitable.
Trump’s goals in Iran have always been clear
The bombing of the Revolutionary government in Iran is drawing comparisons with the war in Iraq. But the comparisons are with the wrong war.
We must crush Iran now so it can’t come back and spread terror
It is too early to know whether the latest ceasefire will hold. But it is early enough to know that it should not. Not if America is going to achieve any of its objectives in the region.
The rise and fall of Tariq Ramadan
There has been so much news of late that stories which might once have caused a splash have sailed by all but unnoticed. One in particular seems worthy of bringing into a greater light, not least because it has been almost entirely ignored by the English-language media.