Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
The game you are not allowed to win
Some years ago I heard a moving story about Roy Jenkins. An unpromising start to any anecdote but stay with me. It involved a croquet match during the late period of his life – as Chancellor of the University of Oxford – when Jenkins had become one of the grander, not to say more pompous,
How the West Lost Its Will to Reverse Mass Migration
Some Republicans are turning against mass deportations, but there’s no other way to undo the harms of unchecked migration and reassert the law.
I like a good hypocrite
America leads the world in paying to make its young illiterate and innumerate. The school Hannah-Jones’s daughter went to is an exemplar
The 9/11 Failure That Still Haunts America
The 25th anniversary of the attacks came with almost no mention of the surviving terrorists and the failure to bring them to justice, writes Douglas Murray.
Who exactly can wear a face covering?
I’m trying to work out what the new rules are in this country. I think I’m getting there, though any Spectator readers who can assist might help me avoid an appearance at the local magistrates’ court. On political party funding, this week’s new rules seem clear.
Would Sadiq Khan back a rave in a mosque?
I must return, regrettably, to the subject of the Church of England. Readers with long memories may recall the year of our Lord 2024. In February of that year, the people who are meant to care for Canterbury Cathedral allowed a “silent disco” to take place over two nights in the place where St Thomas […]
Who will remember Keir Starmer?
I am starting to think that Keir Starmer might have been in it for himself. In saying that, I am not trying to echo that laziest of all critiques of politicians that ‘they’re only in it for the money’. Good luck to anyone trying to make money from politics in Britain these days.
Harry and Meghan deserve a second chance
A little while back I came across a copy of Ted Hughes’s Laureate poems which had an inscription to some friends. Inside was an unpublished squib by the late poet laureate which read: ‘The Royalist/ Is afraid/ The Queen’s a pin/ In a hand-grenade.’
The Death Penalty Is Cruel. Hamas Terrorists Deserve It.
Israel’s security minister is degrading the debate over whether to execute terrorist captives. But there are urgent reasons not to spare the October 7 perpetrators, writes Douglas Murray.
Middle England is finally waking up to the migrant crisis
I don’t know how familiar readers are with the term ‘accelerationism’. It is generally used to describe a tendency on the left, though is increasingly heard on the right too. The basic idea of accelerationism is that there are certain flaws in the societal structure which if pushed could bring things to their inevitable conclusion
The Tragedy of Jason Arday
Before he died, he pondered his own possible downfall. Instead of blaming racism, his defenders should admit the true cause of his collapse, writes Douglas Murray.
The mawkish madness of Dobby’s ‘grave’
I don’t know how many readers have visited the grave of Dobby the house-elf, but any who have should immediately be sectioned and have their subscriptions to The Spectator canceled.