Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The Sun
14 November 2022

The Government’s new migrant deal with France won’t work – here’s why

YESTERDAY our Government signed a new deal with their French counterparts to stop illegal migration on our South Coast. Am I the only one who feels like I have heard all this before?

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The Telegraph
14 November 2022

Britain has finally woken up to the scandal of illegal immigration

Polls show the public has rightfully lost patience over failures to use Brexit to take back control of our borders. A reckoning will follow

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The Spectator
12 November 2022

The weaponisation of ‘bullying’

While there is much to be said about this, I cannot quite agree that it is bullying. Or at least it can only be called bullying because everything is now called bullying if the accusation is politically expedient to a particular politician’s enemies.

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The Times
10 November 2022

At least our politics hasn’t sunk to US lows

Americans can’t agree about basic facts and will vote for any candidate of their tribe regardless of obvious failings

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The New York Post
10 November 2022

Red trickle has an upside: GOP can get better, but Democrats won’t

Ron DeSantis’ big win Tuesday shows he should be the future of the Republican Party.

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The Sun
9 November 2022

Oh dear Donald Trump, do you really want to be a bigger loser than Hillary Clinton?

The American Republican Right have been predicting that this week’s midterm elections would smack their Democrat opponents right where it hurts.

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The Telegraph
7 November 2022

Donors can hit woke universities where it hurts

Money talks, and furious alumni are making their voices heard. It is only the beginning of the fightback

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The Spectator
5 November 2022

The negligence of ‘not in my lifetime’

All my life, home secretaries have said a few tough things about immigration in order to please their grassroots, and otherwise have kicked the whole thing down the road.

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The New York Post
3 November 2022

Seriously, can anyone name a well-run Democratic city?

As we draw closer to polling day, there is really only one question anyone needs to have in their head. Are things better or worse than when America last went to the polls?

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The Sun
3 November 2022

MPs aren’t elected to make a priority of people breaking into our country illegally – fix it or you’ll be out Rishi

According to the BBC and other left-wing media, our Home Secretary should never have used ‘invasion’ to describe the illegal boats that are coming to our country

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The Spectator
29 October 2022

The West’s uncivilised euthanasia policy

I have written here before about the oddity of euthanasia laws in Belgium and the Netherlands. Each time I have, people say: ‘You’re getting all slippery slope on us, Douglas.’ And in some ways they’re right, as euthanasia clearly is a slippery slope – perhaps the slipperiest of all.

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The Telegraph
28 October 2022

Joe Biden’s presidency has failed in its central task: to unite a fractious America

The upcoming mid-terms will be a judgment on the President’s decision to pander to the radical Left

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