Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Stop thinking like it’s 2003 — toppling Iran’s mullahs does not risk mistakes of Iraq War
There are a lot of differences between 2003 and today.
The censors are winning
They say you should never meet your heroes, a rule that is not always correct. But I did have a salutary session some years ago when a friend in New York asked me if I wanted to meet a comedian I really do admire.
Trump’s new Board of Peace is necessary because the UN has failed again and again
The Board of Peace was started in order to try to secure the situation in Gaza. And if the President succeeds in that then he deserves every accolade.
Am I a libertarian after all?
I have never been the greatest fan of libertarianism as a political ideology. Libertarians seem to me to be the bisexuals of politics – they want a bit of everything. But even I felt a slight twinge of libertarian sentiment this week when I read some remarks by our Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood.
Reform’s real race problem
I think it was Zadie Smith who I first heard point out that race is in America what class is in Britain: the conversation underneath every conversation. When I first heard that remark I slightly baulked. Not least because one had rather hoped that class would be less of a thing in Britain in the […]
Trump’s right about boosting US military spending — but he should threaten our enemies, not our allies
There have been times in the past couple of decades when people have wondered what US defense spending is for.
The young women hypnotised by Polanski
A friend mentioned to me last week that a third of young women in the UK are planning to vote for the Green party under its wonderful new leader, Zack Polanski. Bad as I tend to expect things to be, even I thought that surely things can’t be that bad.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah and our misplaced priorities
What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out the economy would certainly be up there, as would closing the border.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah and our misplaced priorities
What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out the economy would certainly be up there, as would closing the border. But I imagine the government has had to put such things on the backburner because it turns out that one of its actual
Anti-Semitism’s omen: When they hate Jews, we are all next
The ‘diversity is our strength’ lobby is wrong. Jihadists want all of us to die.
Douglas Murray: Trump cleaned up crime in DC and taught everyone a lesson in public safety
Ever since President Trump decided to clean up Washington, DC, crime in the city has gone down in drastic numbers.
The Massacre at Bondi Beach Was Inevitable
Australia has long tolerated the proponents of such mayhem and silenced those who raise the alarm.