Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
X days to save the economy!
I wonder what the Labour party will use as its scare slogan at the next election? After all, the usual one of ‘[Insert number] weeks/days/minutes to save the NHS’ may not work next time.
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
How populism went mainstream in Denmark
The immigration debate in this social democracy has pushed politics in an unexpected direction
It’s time to take a stand against Chinese bullying
A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in the magazine how the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to bully our allies and friends in Australia.
Coronavirus gives the New York Times another excuse to bash Britain
Of course most people don’t read the New York Times. But the paper retains a certain cachet in America, and undoubtedly directs a lot of public thinking in that country, if not further afield. Which is why the paper’s anti-British animus (which has been noted here before) is worth highlighting.
Hugging China hasn’t done us any favours
Like nearly everything named a ‘scandal’, ‘affair’ or given the post-fix ‘gate’, almost nobody now remembers the Dalai Lama affair.
Now that so many people have REAL grievances due to the coronavirus pandemic, let’s hear less from all those spouting daft made-up ones
Only when the tide goes out,’ according to the great investor Warren Buffett, ‘do you discover who has been swimming naked.’
We need to make China pay for coronavirus…and we need to walk away
As viewers of the series Chernobyl know, non-democratic governments have a history of covering up their errors.
Can you believe Boris Johnson’s luck?
The Prime Minister’s enemies would rather think of him as a chancer than a gifted leader
Do Joe Biden’s supporters still ‘believe all women’?
It is also a deeply unwise piece of advice. As unwise as it would be to say ‘believe all men’ or ‘believe all humans.’
Public Shaming: Vergebung ist nicht vorgesehen
Die im Namen von Identitätspolitik oder sozialer Gerechtigkeit geführten neuen Kulturkriege tragen besonders in den sozialen Medien unverkennbar Züge aufkeimenden Wahnsinns
Coronavirus: Real problems tend to supplant the confected
Futurology is a mug’s game. There are too many examples of it going wrong to make anyone comfortable about trying it.