Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The Spectator
28 May 2022

Monkeypox, Covid and the trouble with our species

Ihate to be one of those columnists who says ‘I told you so’. But I told you so.

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The New York Post
26 May 2022

Obama and other Dems are still using George Floyd to push a false narrative

Of course what I am about to say is enormously unpopular, but it is nevertheless true. There was never any evidence that Derek Chauvin killed Floyd because he was black.

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The Telegraph
23 May 2022

Nato’s united front is crumbling now that Putin has been humiliated in Ukraine

Western unity will be sorely tested if the conflict turns into a war of attrition with no side claiming victory

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The Times
23 May 2022

Belief in its own sin is subverting the church

Row over the black trainee priest Calvin Robinson shows the C of E is obsessed with racism

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The Spectator
21 May 2022

The dishonesty of how we respond to tragedies

It isn’t hard to notice that some crimes are more important than others. Or at least more politically advantageous.

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The New York Post
19 May 2022

Talk about deadly obesity risks in America? Fat chance

Is it fun to be fat? That´s what Cosmopolitan magazine claimed in February 2021. That month’s cover was of a morbidly obese woman looking cheerful while attempting some acrobatics.

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The Spectator
14 May 2022

Why silly scandals suit our politicians

Let us pretend for a moment that we had the ability to completely clear away all the more frivolous news stories of our time.

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The New York Post
12 May 2022

Why can’t these loathsome elites just give up the masked charade?

Masks are no longer being enforced on public transit following a Florida judge overturning the CDC’s mandate in April.

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The Spectator
7 May 2022

What America gets right about the abortion debate

There are two things non-Americans can almost never understand about America and should probably never speak about. The first is guns. If you have a British accent and arrive in America, or talk about America, you should be very careful before opining on the Second Amendment.

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The New York Post
5 May 2022

A divided America is united in its freedom to debate those differences

The country’s differences on Roe V. Wade is the only thing keeping everyone united.

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The New York Post
30 April 2022

Reparations aren’t about justice. They’re an act of revenge

Many who claim to support reparations for slavery say it will help foster raical harmony in a divided nation. But the unequal distribution of funds to one race would light a fire across the nation.

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The Spectator
30 April 2022

Fractured: can the West fix itself?

There are many ways to fracture a people. But one of the best is to destroy all the remaining ties that bind them. To persuade them that to the extent they have anything of their own, it is not very special, and in the final analysis, hardly worth preserving.

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