Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
In this strange new world, where do we find purpose?
By asking ‘How do we spend our time well?’ I do not of course mean simply ‘How do we keep ourselves busy?’. There are home exercise videos for that. Even DIY, if you must. I mean: how ought we to use this time meaningfully?
Italy’s flirtation with fascism
If we don’t draw a distinction between the Right and the far-Right, we’ll lose our ability to recognise which is which
The Guardian’s trans rights civil war rumbles on
At times of great stress it is necessary to find your enjoyments where you can. And as I mentioned in the magazine last week there are few joys in the world comparable with that which comes from watching the left eating itself.
Will the NHS drop its trans obsession when peak coronavirus hits?
As coronavirus sweeps across the country, I am sure people will be reassured to know that the NHS is doing everything it can to address the pandemic, at such times when a health service’s resources are likely to be overstretched.
Don’t tell me what I can read
At least none of us will have to pretend that we read Woody Allen’s memoirs. This week the publishers Hachette took that little responsibility away from us.
Operation Midland was a national disgrace
Our institutions need to be able to hold firm in the face of moral panics
No, ‘prejudice’ is not our greatest enemy, coronavirus is
It is not racist to talk of a ‘Chinese virus’ or to avoid Chinatown
A university system that charges our children a fortune to study video games and zombies is a national fraud
It is more than 20 years since our then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, announced that he wanted 50 per cent of young people to go to university.
‘Noughts + Crosses’ is an ugly work about racism
The greatest flaw with the BBC’s drama is the deeply-dated nature of the society it claims to portray
The Mayor of London isn’t fooling anyone with his cynical grime grandstanding
In one slightly bewildering response Mayor Khan said “I’d rather invest in future Daves and Stormzys than future victims of crime.”
At last. A government strong enough to take the right decisions and ignore noisy voices
Step by step we are getting our country back. Which is nothing less than what we asked for
How the Sweden Democrats came in from the cold
As the former fascists move towards the centre, should they be accepted into the political fold?