Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

UnHerd
19 June 2020

Maybe it’s best we don’t check our privilege

The desperate desire to see injustice and unfairness is a guaranteed path to unhappiness

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The Daily Mail
14 June 2020

Anarchy is breaking out – Where are the brakes on this thing? Does anyone know?

Today, a rabble of overweight, tattooed thugs hurled insults, cans and bottles at the police. Officers with shields and riot gear scrambled to contain the violence a short walk from the heart of government.

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The Spectator
13 June 2020

In defence of liberalism: resisting a new era of intolerance

Our public figures must rediscover the true spirit of liberty

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UnHerd
12 June 2020

Why J.K. Rowling had to be denounced

Frenzied activists are driving the cast of Harry Potter to publicly betray an old friend

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The Spectator
7 June 2020

What the response to London’s young graffiti cleaners reveals

Further Black Lives Matter protests took place yesterday in the UK, in response to the death of a man at the hands of a Minnesota cop a fortnight ago.

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The Spectator
6 June 2020

Why are street protestors exempt from the corona clause?

It is nearly four years since Black Lives Matter had their first major protest in London.

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UnHerd
5 June 2020

Why I won’t ‘take the knee’

It’s tempting to choose a quiet life and go along with the madness of crowds. But we should resist

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The Telegraph
4 June 2020

The Left’s silence over HSBC is deafening

Where is the outrage over the bank’s support for the crushing of democracy in Hong Kong by Beijing?

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UnHerd
29 May 2020

The sinister bias of YouTube and Twitter

Forget BBC impartiality, it’s the unlimited power of the tech giants that should really alarm us

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The Daily Mail
28 May 2020

Biased, sneering and using BBC as her megaphone

It’s not the first time Emily Maitlis has forced her bosses to apologise for her

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The Spectator
26 May 2020

The grotesque interventions of the anti-Cummings bishops

Most people in Britain couldn’t name a bishop if they tried. But Nick Baines is a name worth remembering. The otherwise utterly un-noteworthy Bishop of Leeds came to my attention in January 2019 when he gave a talk at Bradford Cathedral in which among other political interventions he referred to Boris Johnson (then foreign secretary) […]

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The Spectator
23 May 2020

Why should Cummings be sacked for protecting his family?

There have been an enormous number of positive attributes on display during the lockdown. Family members keeping an eye on each other. Neighbours looking after each other more. But there have been ugly attributes about as well. None uglier than the sort of tell-tale attitude that makes you realise how the secret police could always […]

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