Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The Spectator
29 December 2025

Alaa Abd el-Fattah and our misplaced priorities

What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out the economy would certainly be up there, as would closing the border.

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The Spectator
29 December 2025

Alaa Abd el-Fattah and our misplaced priorities

What would you like the priorities of His Majesty’s government to be? I have quite a long list. Sorting out the economy would certainly be up there, as would closing the border. But I imagine the government has had to put such things on the backburner because it turns out that one of its actual

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The Australian
20 December 2025

Anti-Semitism’s omen: When they hate Jews, we are all next

The ‘diversity is our strength’ lobby is wrong. Jihadists want all of us to die.

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The New York Post
19 December 2025

Douglas Murray: Trump cleaned up crime in DC and taught everyone a lesson in public safety

Ever since President Trump decided to clean up Washington, DC, crime in the city has gone down in drastic numbers.

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City Journal
17 December 2025

The Massacre at Bondi Beach Was Inevitable

Australia has long tolerated the proponents of such mayhem and silenced those who raise the alarm.

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The New York Post
12 December 2025

Douglas Murray: Zohran Mamdani appointing radical transition team has NYC in for a rude awakening

Well, New York — we’re going to be in for quite a ride. But then, I suppose many voters knew that when they voted in Zohran Mamdani as mayor last month.

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The Spectator
11 December 2025

The pleasure of not knowing

A few years ago the podcaster Lex Fridman published a list of books that he was hoping to read in the year ahead. It included works by George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hermann Hesse and others. If he had published this in the world of print media he might have got back some encouraging noises.

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The New York Post
5 December 2025

Europe can’t moan it’s way to Ukraine peace. It must step up itself.

There have always been a lot of jokes about the European military.

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The Spectator
4 December 2025

Where was my invitation to Your Party?

For perhaps the first time in my life I have experienced ‘fomo’ – fear of missing out. It is strange to feel this teenage sentiment now I am safely in my forties, and even odder that it should occur in relation to a party political conference in Liverpool.

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The Telegraph
30 November 2025

Culture matters: That was Peter Whittle’s message to the British Right

Too many conservatives for too long felt the crucial battles were about economics. The NCF founder helped to correct that error.

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The Spectator
29 November 2025

Sir Tom Stoppard: ‘I aspire to write for posterity’

Sir Tom Stoppard, the British playwright, died at his home in Dorset yesterday aged 88. In 2019, he gave a rare interview to Douglas Murray.

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The New York Post
28 November 2025

Afghan terror and Somalia fraud shows why Trump is right on migrants

You have to be careful with a country. You cannot just leave borders open, or allow in large numbers of people with totally different value systems from your own.

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