Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
America’s colour blindness
How many black cops does it take to commit a racist hate crime? The latest correct answer is ‘five’. That’s the number of policemen in Memphis who have been fired and charged with second-degree murder for the killing of Tyre Nichols.
Dear Mr Barnier, thanks for inviting us back to the EU but here’s a word you usually choose to ignore: NO
I am keen to introduce you to a word that you may not have met for some time: NO. I know it is the way with the EU that even if an electorate says “No”, you take it to mean “Yes”.
Hotel debacle shows how US can’t afford to absorb this many illegal immigrants
Last year New York was struggling to absorb 6,000 migrants. Otherwise known as less than one day’s worth of illegal border-crossings at America’s southern border. Now, in 2023, we have something like 28,000 illegal migrants in New York. Otherwise known as about 3-4 days’ worth of illegal crossings at the southern border. As Mayor Adams […]
Pride comes before a fall
When there were real gay rights to be won, the corporate and sporting worlds were nowhere to be seen. They’re all over the rainbow people now only because the battles are won. As a result, they are overdoing it like all new converts and people are getting annoyed.
The Mike Pompeo speech on China’s influence on US universities that MIT killed
Mike Pompeo has been very vocal in his criticism of China and it’s overt influence in the US.
The Home Office is not fit for purpose, DJ’s murder by asylum seeker comes from not caring who we let into country
WHY is our immigration system so broken? I can already hear the response from Home Office officials and others: “Who says it is?”
If not Biden, who?
He would be in his mid-eighties at the end of a second term and there are reasonable concerns in the Democrat party that while many people of that age are sprightly and alert, Joe Biden is not among them.
San Francisco gallery owner shows how lawlessness brings merchants to a breaking point
A video of San Francisco gallery owner Shannon Collier Gwin spraying a hose at a homeless person who camped outside of his business went viral.
Right and Wrong on Ukraine
Why has the debate on the Ukraine–Russia war become so fetid, especially on the political right? Why are members of Congress from the Republican Party the ones most outspoken against support for Ukraine? Why is it the Right that has produced the most fervent anti-interventionists, when it used to be the political Left that did […]
SNP is sacrificing confused kids on the altar of self-rule
The so-called Gender Recognition Act proposes that a 16-year-old may be too young to buy a pint but they can make life-changing decisions about their sex and be recognised as such by the state.
If only Harry took after his grandfather
All the Royals could all moan about their lot and make fake and not very plausible appeals to public pity. But they don’t. They get on with things.
The state of New York state? Terrifying!
It’s often said that making laws is like making sausages: best not to look. Well after Tuesday in Albany I can tell you that I’d rather spend a month watching lawyers making sausages than suffer another hour of Gov Hochul making non-announcements.