Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Where was my invitation to Your Party?
For perhaps the first time in my life I have experienced ‘fomo’ – fear of missing out. It is strange to feel this teenage sentiment now I am safely in my forties, and even odder that it should occur in relation to a party political conference in Liverpool.
Culture matters: That was Peter Whittle’s message to the British Right
Too many conservatives for too long felt the crucial battles were about economics. The NCF founder helped to correct that error.
Sir Tom Stoppard: ‘I aspire to write for posterity’
Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, died at his home in Dorset yesterday aged 88. In 2019, he gave a rare interview to Douglas Murray.
Afghan terror and Somalia fraud shows why Trump is right on migrants
You have to be careful with a country. You cannot just leave borders open, or allow in large numbers of people with totally different value systems from your own.
The theatre isn’t a thinktank
Readers tend not to approve of rows between columnists, but I must take issue with something Lloyd Evans wrote in ‘No life’ last week. Our theatre critic claimed that his companionship ‘is very low calibre’, that he ‘can’t match anyone in conversation’ and that he ‘can barely recall making a witty or worthwhile comment’…
We shouldn’t reward Russia with a ‘peace’ that leaves Ukraine carved up and helpless
Despite President Trump’s calls for the fighting to stop, Russia this week again stepped up its war against Ukraine.
Trump’s Epstein gamble
It is always interesting to see who the American left claims are the leaders of the American right. There was a time during President Trump’s first term when Steve Bannon fitted the role – and relished playing it. Back then most days brought another media profile of the dark genius of the MAGA movement.
Can Jack Schlossberg take internet trolling all the way to Congress?
You’d have thought that a scion of the Kennedy dynasty wouldn’t need much of a leg-up in life. But the New York Times just ran a huge puff-piece about Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F Kennedy…
Justice in war is messy
At the end of last month, a judge in Belfast issued a verdict that was both right and wrong. The case related to a man known to the public only as ‘Soldier F’. He was one of the members of the Parachute Regiment involved in the events of the day in January 1972 that became known […]
New York is not the city that Mamdani pretends it is
Perhaps this is just one more similarity between London and New York. Both must count as among the world’s most tolerant populations.
Conspiracy kook Tucker Carlson is no conservative and no friend to Charlie Kirk and JD VanceÂ
This past week Tucker Carlson proved again what an appalling person he has become. He invited onto his show an avowed Holocaust denier and racist, Nick Fuentes.
Turning Point USA’s extraordinary crowd with JD Vance shows how young people are hungry for purpose
There was a time when conservative kids weren’t cool.