Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The New York Post
21 July 2022

Biden is letting Putin and Xi dictate our foreign policy

Who runs our foreign policy? Is it the White House, State Department and Senate? Or is it the Chinese Politburo and the Kremlin?

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The Spectator
16 July 2022

Shouldn’t we feel sorry for Hunter Biden?

There is politics. And then there are people’s lives.

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The Times
15 July 2022

Why it pays for big brands to get cosy with the world of woke

Banks, brands and all sorts of companies are rushing to align themselves with fashionable political causes, but we should ask hard questions about what this incessant and aggressive virtue-signalling is designed to hide

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The New York Post
14 July 2022

Can we ever be woke enough for the trans extremists?

There is almost nobody who actually hates trans people. Almost no one actually wishes them harm. Ours is a very live-and-let live society, and if people want to dress or present one way or another then that´s hardly new.

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The Spectator
9 July 2022

Who’ll stop the art attackers?

it turns out that security in British art galleries is even weaker than the British constabulary.

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The New York Post
7 July 2022

Lesson of Boris Johnson is power is pointless without principles

Anyone who thinks America is badly governed right now can comfort themselves that at least we aren’t Britain. Because for all the insanity of Washington, nothing can beat the utter breakdown of politics in Westminster.

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The Telegraph
3 July 2022

Take it from a Russian – the alternative to Western democracy is far, far worse

In his excellent new book, comedian and podcast host Konstantin Kisin asks why people in the West so often spit on their luck

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The Sun
1 July 2022

Halifax’s pronoun policy is woke madness – but there is another more damning reason people should quit the bank

IT’S quite a bold move for a ­business to tell its customers to go stuff it.

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The New York Post
30 June 2022

Jan. 6 hearings are flawed — but Republicans can’t ignore Trump’s bad behavior

Testimonies from the Jan. 6 investigation have shed light on Trump’s actions in the days leading up to and during the Capitol, which cannot be ignored.

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The Spectator
29 June 2022

Is America about to break apart?

The institutions that used to unite the country now bitterly divide it

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The Spectator
25 June 2022

Our shifting definition of shame

In this most holy month of Pride I have been making my observances by thinking about shame. After all, shame is the reason that ‘Pride’ has taken on the meaning it has in recent years.

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The Times
24 June 2022

Britain’s new elite is hiding in plain sight

The establishment used to be easy to define but its influence has dispersed. Power is now held by often lesser known figures who dominate our public institutions and oversee today’s orthodoxies

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