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External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Forget Trump – Republicans could soon seize the White House without him
Other candidates, like Ron DeSantis, are already changing the debate, backed up by an impressive array of think tanks and media projects
The inversion of history
I cannot be the only person who notices the asymmetry at work here – the effort to rip apart our own myths and truths while inventing wholly new myths about other groups of people. The former always being negative, the latter always being only ever positive.
Both Democrats and Republicans have failed to stop illegal immigration
It doesn’t matter who you vote for in America — on the matter of illegal migration the results are always the same. To be fair, it is the same in other developed countries.
An Ode to a Delicate Soul
John Keats, who died tragically with little renown at 25, wrote poignant poems that eventually gave him everlasting life.
The strange obsession with Phillip Schofield
I first became aware of Schofield when he was presenting children’s television from the BBC’s ‘broom cupboard’ with Gordon the Gopher. I have not followed the career of either character very closely since. Nor, I think, have many other people.
Trump’s cruel attack on Kayleigh McEnany is the final straw in his false loyalty schtick
One of the great secrets of successful institutions is that people are loyal to institutions that are loyal to them. If that pact gets broken at one end then it gets broken at both.
The Extraordinary Courage of Tatiana Gnedich
Condemned to ten years in the gulag, the scholar sat in her cell and translated an epic poem—all 16,000 lines—from memory.
There is such thing as a stupid question
Some people seem to make a career of being ashamed (or at least claiming to be ashamed) of their country. Personally I don’t feel it – apart from when I see journalists from the BBC, ITV or Sky questioning our political leaders while they are abroad. Then a great wave of revulsion and national shame […]
Joe Biden’s Democrats are talentless, extreme – and about to face a reckoning
Ron DeSantis’s entry into the race has made the Republicans interesting. The contrast with their opponents couldn’t be more striking
DeSantis vs. Newsom would be a ‘24 battle of ideas — not a Biden-Trump clownshow
Ron DeSantis’ announcement on Wednesday, added to Tim Scott’s earlier in the week, means that the race is finally interesting.
Lord Byron’s Zest for Life
The great Romantic poet lived fast, died young, and scorched it all onto the page.
How to fake it till you make it
Not to sound too much like Kamala Harris during one of her peregrinations on the nature of time, but the thing about the future is that it catches up with you awfully fast.