Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
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
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?
The sinister bias of YouTube and Twitter
Forget BBC impartiality, it’s the unlimited power of the tech giants that should really alarm us
Biased, sneering and using BBC as her megaphone
It’s not the first time Emily Maitlis has forced her bosses to apologise for her
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) […]
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 […]
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.