Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The Spectator
30 October 2025

Don’t fear the bogeyman

Britain is beset by a bogeyman. A giant, mystical beast that the public are forever being threatened with. Remember last year when a young Welsh choirboy stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party in Southport?

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The New York Post
23 October 2025

NYC mayoral debate exposed Zohran Mamdani as man who has never dealt with reality

Finally, Zohran Mamdani had to face the difficult questions.

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The Spectator
22 October 2025

Imagine what Enoch Powell might have said

The great John O’Sullivan has a story about Enoch Powell which he keeps promising to put into print. Since he still hasn’t done so, I will risk repeating it here. It occurred during a conversation some years after the Rivers of Blood speech. A group of conservatives were talking, and Powell was among them. At

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The New York Post
16 October 2025

After the Gaza cease-fire, what will these faux revolutionaries protest? Some ideas

Now that President Trump has managed to get a cease-fire in Gaza, what are all those wannabe revolutionaries here at home going to do now?

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The Spectator
15 October 2025

The pathology of politics

Researchers from Imperial College London this week released an analysis of the health of voters in the UK. In a publication associated with British Medical Journal, the experts claimed to have found that people who vote for Reform are disproportionately sick.

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The New York Post
9 October 2025

Trump’s historic peace deal brings joy and relief — but it comes with a bitterly high cost

That deal was a bitter one for Israelis to swallow. But they did swallow it — in order to get their young man home.

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The Spectator
8 October 2025

The increasing fear felt by Britain’s Jews

If you walked down the Strand in London on Tuesday this week you would have been greeted by hundreds of people outside King’s College London. The gathering was organised by students from KCL, the London School of Economics and University College London. They chanted ‘Intifada, intifada’ and ‘Long live the intifada’.

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The Spectator
7 October 2025

The mainstreaming of leftist violence

There it was. The same people who had been telling Americans for the past decade that ‘silence’ in the face of violence is ‘complicity,’

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The Free Press
6 October 2025

The War Israel Won—and the One the West Is Losing

Two years after October 7, Israel has defeated its enemies. The West is still surrendering to them.

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The New York Post
2 October 2025

Conservatives, be careful about wishing for a Zohran Mamdani win

Be careful what you wish for. I am referring to some Republicans who are starting to see a silver lining in the socialist’s mayoral run.

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The Spectator
1 October 2025

The Murray Test for TV drama

Slow Horses has an outstanding cast. But its plotlines and characters have tended to follow all the modern commandments.

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The New York Post
26 September 2025

Democrats are driving young men to kill ‘Nazis’ who aren’t Nazis

If words do have an effect, then why are so many people in positions of power so incredibly careless with the words they use?

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