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External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
The theatre isn’t a thinktank
Readers tend not to approve of rows between columnists, but I must take issue with something Lloyd Evans wrote in ‘No life’ last week. Our theatre critic claimed that his companionship ‘is very low calibre’, that he ‘can’t match anyone in conversation’ and that he ‘can barely recall making a witty or worthwhile comment’…
We shouldn’t reward Russia with a ‘peace’ that leaves Ukraine carved up and helpless
Despite President Trump’s calls for the fighting to stop, Russia this week again stepped up its war against Ukraine.
Trump’s Epstein gamble
It is always interesting to see who the American left claims are the leaders of the American right. There was a time during President Trump’s first term when Steve Bannon fitted the role – and relished playing it. Back then most days brought another media profile of the dark genius of the MAGA movement.
Can Jack Schlossberg take internet trolling all the way to Congress?
You’d have thought that a scion of the Kennedy dynasty wouldn’t need much of a leg-up in life. But the New York Times just ran a huge puff-piece about Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F Kennedy…
Justice in war is messy
At the end of last month, a judge in Belfast issued a verdict that was both right and wrong. The case related to a man known to the public only as ‘Soldier F’. He was one of the members of the Parachute Regiment involved in the events of the day in January 1972 that became known […]
New York is not the city that Mamdani pretends it is
Perhaps this is just one more similarity between London and New York. Both must count as among the world’s most tolerant populations.
Conspiracy kook Tucker Carlson is no conservative and no friend to Charlie Kirk and JD VanceÂ
This past week Tucker Carlson proved again what an appalling person he has become. He invited onto his show an avowed Holocaust denier and racist, Nick Fuentes.
Turning Point USA’s extraordinary crowd with JD Vance shows how young people are hungry for purpose
There was a time when conservative kids weren’t cool.
Don’t fear the bogeyman
Britain is beset by a bogeyman. A giant, mystical beast that the public are forever being threatened with. Remember last year when a young Welsh choirboy stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party in Southport?
NYC mayoral debate exposed Zohran Mamdani as man who has never dealt with reality
Finally, Zohran Mamdani had to face the difficult questions.
Imagine what Enoch Powell might have said
The great John O’Sullivan has a story about Enoch Powell which he keeps promising to put into print. Since he still hasn’t done so, I will risk repeating it here. It occurred during a conversation some years after the Rivers of Blood speech. A group of conservatives were talking, and Powell was among them. At
After the Gaza cease-fire, what will these faux revolutionaries protest? Some ideas
Now that President Trump has managed to get a cease-fire in Gaza, what are all those wannabe revolutionaries here at home going to do now?