Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
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
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.’
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
Argentinian prez Javier Milei scolds Davos elites with common sense
The 53-year-old’s rise to power last month confused much of the world’s media. Certainly it threw a wrench in the works for glossy international groups like the WEF.
The Art of Nostalgia
Philip Larkin’s poem about retired racehorses captures past glory without giving in to sentiment.
Why aren’t the super-rich braver?
What is the point of being the world’s richest man if you are not allowed to tell people where to go?
Americans have lost faith in institutions because of the flip-flopping Faucis in power
“How can we restore public trust in institutions?” This is one of the biggest questions of our time. Something all would-be sages stroke their chins about.
Making Fun of Marxism
A limerick about Stalin and Lenin, written by a former communist, wittily punctures their politics.
Why I’m considering a life of crime
The British police seem to have long ago decided to police everything except for crime.
If Biden wins, the US heads into a deeper decline — but if Trump wins, America burns
And if it doesn’t wind up being another Trump v Biden race, America will be in even more choppy waters
The left’s hypocrisy over Harvard laid bare
In a farewell piece, Claudine Gay said she was the victim of “demagogues” who had “weaponized” her presidency to “undermine the ideals animating Harvard since its founding.”
Claudine Gay has exposed the rot at the heart of the woke establishment
The former Harvard president failed to stand up against racism. The BBC and the Left are bizarrely treating her as the victim