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External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Will no one resist the new totalitarianism?
Some of Alastair Stewart’s friends will fight for him — but too many of us will let him simply disappear.
“Le Royaume-Uni a un avenir incroyable devant lui”
L’essayiste anglais se félicite du retrait de la Grande-Bretagne de l’Union. Il juge que ses compatriotes ont voulu retrouver leur pleine souveraineté dans le cadre de leurs institutions politiques nationales.
British broadcaster resigns over ‘racist’ Shakespeare quote
Do Alastair Stewart’s bosses really believe that he hates black people because he cited Measure for Measure?
In defence of Alastair Stewart
Does ITV actually think that Alastair Stewart is a secret racist, really hates black people and has spent his life hating black people?
How to fight back against ‘cancel culture’
‘Cancel culture’ is a horrible term because outside of a dictatorship nobody can actually be ‘canceled’ or otherwise ‘disappeared’. All that can happen is that people can be found to have trodden across one of the orthodoxies of the age.
What unites the Nazis and Communists?
It is well worth climbing the literary mountain that is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate
Meghan and Harry, Roiled Royals
Life as a princess required too many sacrifices—really
Defend your friends
The silence of decent people allows the bullies to get away with it
The terrifying parable of Laurence Fox’s Question Time appearance
In what turned out to be the last year of his life, Roger Scruton often mulled on the nature and techniques of twenty-first century denunciation. For Roger, like others who had seen totalitarian societies up close, knew what intimidation and officially-imposed forms of thinking were actually like.
Terrifying our children with doom mongering propaganda on climate change is nothing less than abuse
Have your children got eco-anxiety? How would you know if they had?
The New York Times’ bizarre campaign against Britain
The famously teeth-grinding boast in the corner of the front page of the New York Times is “All the news that’s fit to print”. In truth it should be “All the views we think fit to hold”, since for some time — most of our adult lives you might say — the paper’s decline from […]
Roger Scruton: A man who seemed bigger than the age
Sir Roger Scruton has died. Diagnosed with cancer last summer, he passed away peacefully on Sunday surrounded by his family.