Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The New York Post
21 August 2025

New Yorkers need only look to Newsom’s California to see how Mamdani can bring ruin to Big Apple

In our own country, there are many politicians who think that US cities in particular can put up with almost anything.

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The Spectator
20 August 2025

The oppression of Sally Rooney

Almost a decade ago the Irish academic Liam Kennedy published a tremendous book with the title Unhappy the Land: the Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? It is a dissection of one of the most curious pathologies in the world: the desire to have been oppressed; a glorying in being repressed.

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x.com
15 August 2025

Alaska meeting was a start, but Putin is still up to his old tricks — and Trump knows it

Since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 there have been no face-to-face meetings between the leaders of Russia and the US.

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The Spectator
13 August 2025

Clive of India must not fall

He appears to be guilty of that most common of modern crimes: being found to have lived in the past.

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The New York Post
8 August 2025

Mamdani smears Cuomo for allegedly talking to Trump and yet associates himself with Mahmoud Khalil

Zohran Mamdani is trying to smear rival Andrew Cuomo by associating him with President Donald Trump.

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The Spectator
6 August 2025

My victory over Mohammed Hijab

One of the occupational hazards of being a journalist is being hounded by litigants. Indeed, one of the reasons why much of the media finds it easier to report fluff than to write about difficult issues is that the latter can be costly in terms of money, as well as time.

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The New York Post
31 July 2025

It’s important to get answers on Hillary Clinton’s RussiaGate plot

“Deflection,” “Distraction” and “Dishonest” are just some of the accusations leveled at President Trump recently for saying he’d like to look into past Democrat conspiracies against him.…

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The Spectator
30 July 2025

How to handle the Wagner problem

There are deep ructions across Europe, as in Britain. All come down to the same thing. The societies in question have decided to take in more people than they could ever absorb or integrate, and have done so at a rate that will ruin these societies financially as well as socially. It’s a little late

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The Telegraph
30 July 2025

Starmer’s spineless pandering to the Gaza vote is coming at a terrible cost

Palestinianism is a creed that is entrenching divisions and transforming our culture for the worse

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The Spectator
26 July 2025

MAGA, Epstein and the paedo files

Bill Clinton published another memoir last year, entitled Citizen, and I take it that everyone read the book the minute it came out. For those who somehow didn’t, there’s a striking passage that can be easily found by standing in a bookshop, going to the index and searching under ‘E’ for ‘Epstein’.

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The Spectator
19 July 2025

The pointlessness of ‘smashing the gangs’

Until recently, The Bell in Epping was simply a three-star hotel with a pleasant-looking breakfast buffet…

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The New York Post
17 July 2025

Douglas Murray: A 50-day deadline is 50 days to kill. Force Putin’s hand now

Who would ever have thought that dealing with the Middle East would look easy?

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