Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Sir Keir Starmer thinks all he has to do is let the Tories sink – that’s not happening
Like many voters, I am not impressed by the Conservative Party’s attempt to run our country since 2010. In some ways Starmer should be a shoo-in for PM. A former Director of Public Prosecutions, he has shown that he can tie up his own shoelaces, which is more than can be said for some party […]
While America burns, Xi Jinping’s plot to dominate the world is quietly succeeding
Everywhere you look, China is advancing while the West is distracted by trivialities
‘No tolerance for lawbreakers’ — the lie of San Francisco and NYC
On Tuesday morning, the 43-year old founder of Cash App lay dying on a residential street in San Francisco. Bob Lee had been stabbed repeatedly.
William Blake’s The Lamb
The holy poem that inspired a haunting piece of music.
Our poor deluded MPs
They say that death and taxes are the only certainties in life. But I would add a couple more things to that list. ‘French rioting’ is one. And ‘MPs getting caught trying to make cash on the side’.
Defy the doom-mongers and believe in a better tomorrow for America and ourselves
A new poll out this week made some alarming discoveries. The survey carried out for the Wall Street Journal revealed that just 38% of Americans say that patriotism is “Very important” to them. That is down from 70% in 1998.
mily Dickinson’s Bowl of Gemstones
For most of her life, the great American poet lived a life of solitude in Massachusetts. It was only after she died, at the age of 55, that the world discovered her…
America is being consumed by a terrifying new madness
With Trump potentially facing arrest, the only question now is whether it is about to drive itself off a cliff
The joke is on America
I was brought up on Dan Quayle jokes. You know the ones – like the gag that the then vice-president had turned up in Latin America and apologised for not speaking Latin. Thankfully vice-presidents are no longer a laughing stock. Today we have Kamala Harris.
Disaster when countries look to courts, not ballot box, for politics
Remember “Lock her up”? And the way in which people said that it was “incitement” against Hillary Clinton whenever Donald Trump’s supporters chanted that? Well it seems that for many people in this country, consistency is not a principle.
The Left have no answers for the migrant crisis so cry foul over every idea
In the past year, ever since then Home Secretary Priti Patel announced her Rwanda migrant plan, the Left in this country has been in overdrive.
The Last Words of a Doomed Poet
I mentioned before that poetry seems to arise in situations of extremes. And that the quantity of poetry that a person pours out need not necessarily determine the size or longevity of the poet’s reputation. If anyone vindicates both these judgments, it is Chidiock Tichborne.