Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Britain’s fatal unwillingness to confront Islamic extremism
More than any other country in the West, Britain has become practised in the arts of self-deception and subject avoidance.
Why are we so paralysed into NOT talking about Islamist terrorism?
It has not even been a week since the brutal slaughter of Sir David Amess. The frenzied stabbing to death of another of our MPs should have shocked our whole political system.
The pandemic has made cynics of us all
Areport by MPs into the spread of the coronavirus has concluded that the government’s approach constituted one of this country’s worst ever public health failures.
Lars Vilks, Lonely Hero of the ‘Cartoon Wars’
For drawing Mohammed, he and others were attacked and mostly abandoned
The technocrats of the European Union won’t be able to survive the next French revolution
The Right-wing writer Eric Zemmour has pushed aside the Le Pens, and now poses a serious challenge to Emmanuel Macron
Should we be worried that China’s brazen show of force in Taiwan risks hurtling globe into World War Three?
China’s actions risk turning the Cold War into a hot war
The tactics of victimhood
Late last week the Labour deputy leader was the subject of a glowing profile in the Times. The piece described Angela Rayner’s alleged physical similarity to Nicole Kidman, spoke indulgently of her ‘outspokenness’ and otherwise confirmed my suspicion that most of the people who go into politics should never be allowed near the stuff.
Farewell to Cambridge’s disastrous Vice-Chancellor
You do not have to read between the lines to realise that Toope is leaving because his brief tenure at Cambridge has been an unmitigated disaster, a fact that has become increasingly clear.
Where has the truth gone?
It is perfectly plain to most people that a male-born person throttling a woman for sport does not constitute great societal progress. It is possible to hold this view without deciding to carry out a ‘genocide’ of trans people.
China blasting AUKUS defence deal is all the proof we need that it’s the right thing to do
Biden, Boris Johnson and Australian PM Scott Morrison unveiled a new AUKUS pact. It will see the three countries work together to build Australia’s first ever nuclear submarines
Government must not turn our Brexit leap into one giant belly-flop
This week the Prime Minister told the House of Commons that Covid had changed everything and that the pandemic was not in anyone’s manifesto
Twenty years after 9/11, the Western world has tragically lost the will to win
Like America in those days before 9/11, we think history has gone away again. Until something happens to remind us that history never stops