Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Do we really want our politicians to be uneducated?
The interesting thing about political pendulums is that they always over-swing. In the campaign for this week’s Gorton and Denton by-election, one of the main lines of attack on the Reform candidate is that he used to be an academic and is therefore ill-suited to being the area’s parliamentary representative.
How Apple News and other tech giants change the narrative for Democrats
The New York Post revealed this week that Apple News has set up a sneaky little system of its own to make sure that its customers get indoctrinated in one political direction.
Britain’s right is falling into the same trap as the left
As I have suggested here before, there are few joys in life equal to that of watching the left fall out among itself. Whatever your political views, the whole Judean People’s Front vibe of the parties to the left of the Labour party brings a special type of comedy.
Following the law is the only sensible way to address the illegal immigration mess
If you think way back to 2023 you may remember that this city was suffering a crisis of illegal immigration.
British politics has become a Devil’s Wheel
There is a moment in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall which has been much on my mind lately. It is the bit towards the very end of the novel when our hero, Paul Pennyfeather, re-encounters the sinister modernist architect Professor Otto Silenus. By this point Pennyfeather has undergone all manner of travails.
Kamala Harris returning to the political landscape can be best described by Gen Z as ‘cringe’
I admit, I miss Kamala Harris, as life in this country hasn’t been the same without her presence.
The British should have their holy places
I think by now most of us can spot a double standard when we see one. So let me try two out on you. In what situation is it acceptable to denounce an MP or parliamentary candidate as ‘not very British’ or even someone who ‘doesn’t get our values, our culture, or our history’.
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 […]