Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

UnHerd
18 September 2020

How America came apart

A people with no shared narrative or history will find it very hard to keep a lid on disorder and violence

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UnHerd
11 September 2020

Hollywood’s hapless diversity bid

Driven by Darwinian levels of competition, it’s the last place to enact an egalitarian experiment

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The Telegraph
10 September 2020

Of course Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

The Left may be outraged, but there are good reasons why the president deserves his recent nomination

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The Spectator
10 September 2020

Who would risk being a government adviser?

Poor Tony Abbott. It would seem being prime minister of Australia doesn’t bring you to the attention of the British media.

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The Critic
7 September 2020

Satire needs to find new targets

There are still plenty of institutions worth mocking

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The Daily Mail
6 September 2020

We’re living through the Age of Mass Derangement

I thought the culture wars would stop when Covid struck. Now, things have become so toxic…

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The Telegraph
5 September 2020

The green fanatics have terrorised a generation of children. Now they’re turning on the free press

Politicians, celebrities and activists of the left have spent years encouraging the extremists of XR to take precisely this kind of action

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The Telegraph
4 September 2020

The strange case of Jessica Krug, and what makes someone adopt a false identity

As an academic reveals she’s lived her professional life pretending to be black, Douglas Murray asks why people pursue a life of deceit

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The Times
4 September 2020

Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay review — woke warriors are conquering academia

This book exposes the brainlessness in today’s universities. Douglas Murray fears that it may have arrived too late

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The Spectator
4 September 2020

In defence of Tony Abbott

For the last two days the broadcast media has been obsessing about whether Tony Abbott is a fit and proper person to be a trade envoy for the United Kingdom.

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UnHerd
4 September 2020

‘Cultural appropriation’ is American cultural imperialism

The outrage over Adele shows the extent to which the US culture wars intrude in places they don’t belong

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The Telegraph
29 August 2020

The British Museum won’t get away with pandering to wokeness

Until our institutions are willing to stand up for themselves they will always be targets for grievance

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