Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Following the law is the only sensible way to address the illegal immigration mess
If you think way back to 2023 you may remember that this city was suffering a crisis of illegal immigration.
British politics has become a Devil’s Wheel
There is a moment in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall which has been much on my mind lately. It is the bit towards the very end of the novel when our hero, Paul Pennyfeather, re-encounters the sinister modernist architect Professor Otto Silenus. By this point Pennyfeather has undergone all manner of travails.
Kamala Harris returning to the political landscape can be best described by Gen Z as ‘cringe’
I admit, I miss Kamala Harris, as life in this country hasn’t been the same without her presence.
The British should have their holy places
I think by now most of us can spot a double standard when we see one. So let me try two out on you. In what situation is it acceptable to denounce an MP or parliamentary candidate as ‘not very British’ or even someone who ‘doesn’t get our values, our culture, or our history’.
Stop thinking like it’s 2003 — toppling Iran’s mullahs does not risk mistakes of Iraq War
There are a lot of differences between 2003 and today.
The censors are winning
They say you should never meet your heroes, a rule that is not always correct. But I did have a salutary session some years ago when a friend in New York asked me if I wanted to meet a comedian I really do admire.
Trump’s new Board of Peace is necessary because the UN has failed again and again
The Board of Peace was started in order to try to secure the situation in Gaza. And if the President succeeds in that then he deserves every accolade.
Am I a libertarian after all?
I have never been the greatest fan of libertarianism as a political ideology. Libertarians seem to me to be the bisexuals of politics – they want a bit of everything. But even I felt a slight twinge of libertarian sentiment this week when I read some remarks by our Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
Reform’s real race problem
I think it was Zadie Smith who I first heard point out that race is in America what class is in Britain: the conversation underneath every conversation. When I first heard that remark I slightly baulked. Not least because one had rather hoped that class would be less of a thing in Britain in the […]
Trump’s right about boosting US military spending — but he should threaten our enemies, not our allies
There have been times in the past couple of decades when people have wondered what US defense spending is for.
The young women hypnotised by Polanski
A friend mentioned to me last week that a third of young women in the UK are planning to vote for the Green party under its wonderful new leader, Zack Polanski. Bad as I tend to expect things to be, even I thought that surely things can’t be that bad.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah and our misplaced priorities
What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out the economy would certainly be up there, as would closing the border.