Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The New York Post
15 February 2024

Shameful Biden tries to reward Hamas terror with a Palestinian state

It’s amazing how long bad ideas take to die. That’s certainly the case with one of the least successful ideas in the world. The idea of the two-state solution in the Middle East.

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The Free Press
11 February 2024

A Second Year with Douglas Murray

‘Things Worth Remembering’ continues with a new theme next Sunday. But first, a final piece of poetry from Shakespeare.

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The Telegraph
10 February 2024

If Biden is unfit to stand trial, he’s unfit to lead America

His mental decline can no longer be denied, even by his allies. The USA, and the West, deserves better

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The Spectator
10 February 2024

I’m embarrassed by modern Britain

We have decided that the men of violence are winning and we must just keep our heads down

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The New York Post
8 February 2024

US should fight to defend borders in Ukraine, Israel — and at home

Why we can’t we have a party — Republican or Democrat — that can both protect the borders of the United States and those of our allies?

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The Free Press
4 February 2024

Breaking Bread with the Dead

In a single poem, Seamus Heaney pays tribute to his late, great friend—and the poets who preceded them both.

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The Spectator
3 February 2024

The Tory party has nothing to run on

One thinks: you plotted to dislodge your boss and then spent multiple evenings debating Liz Truss – for this?

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The New York Post
29 January 2024

Netanyahu’s urgent warning to Americans: Iran is targeting the US — and the rest of the West

Over the weekend, I sat down with the Israeli prime minister at the country’s security HQ in Tel Aviv for an exclusive interview. During it, he issued an urgent warning to the US.

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The Free Press
28 January 2024

The Woman Who Captured Russia’s Pain

Anna Akhmatova wrote of her people’s darkest days, when they were caught in the middle of the twentieth century’s vise.

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The Spectator
27 January 2024

The Trump circus is back in town

The oddity is that everybody who is loyal to Donald Trump knows more about him than they can ever admit

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The Free Press
21 January 2024

The Doomed Romance of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

Hughes said nothing of his wife’s suicide for decades, until his own final years when he penned the words: ‘Everything in me loved her.’

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The Spectator
20 January 2024

The long-overdue banning of Hizb ut-Tahrir

It is hard to convey to anyone in a position of power in the UK just how weak our police have made us look

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