Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Broadcaster bias is destroying public trust
When the media complain about disappearing levels of trust in our profession, it is worth remembering that we only have ourselves to blame.
Roger Scruton gets his job back
Roger Scruton has been reappointed as head of a government housing body after he was sacked in April following a magazine interview in which his views were misrepresented.
Unplug the outrage machine
I blame John Peel for dying. Or rather I blame Tony Blair for replying to the death of John Peel in the way he did. It is 15 years since the disc jockey died.
Is Boris wrong to claim Islam set the Muslim world back?
I do love the Guardian. As the years go by almost no publication continues to give me such constant amusement. This week has been no exception.
Could homophobia be on the rise?
Liberal-minded people carry around as many presumptions as anyone. But among the most striking is the idea that history goes in one direction; that tomorrow is likely to be better than today; that history is a linear path upwards; and that politics is largely a matter of accruing more and more human rights until such […]
Pressured, the Southern Poverty Law Center Admits It Was Wrong
British Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz complained after it defamed him and hurt fund-raising for his organization. It’s now paying him more than $3 million. Any free society must expect that a certain number of chancers, hucksters, and shake-down artists will prosper among them. But rarely have they come in so grossly endowed and shameless a […]
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray – review
On publication in May last year, The Strange Death of Europe became a surprise bestseller and remained so all last summer. It’s rare that a book of such seriousness, cogency and pessimism finds so many readers. Read more
The three unanswered questions from the Roger Scruton hit job
The New Statesman has apologised to Sir Roger Scruton. In a statement published on its website, the magazine has admitted that in April this year its deputy editor, George Eaton, tweeted out ‘partial quotations’ from an interview with the philosopher ‘including a truncated version’ of a quotation.
Billy Connolly and the death of free speech
I hope readers will forgive me for returning to a subject I addressed here recently. It was a reflection on the current confusion over who in our society is allowed to speak and who is not.
Are Tories fanatics? The New York Times thinks so
The New York Times’s strange jihad against post-Brexit Britain continues. Some readers may have missed the paper’s insistence that having only just finished eating mutton, the British public are currently stock-piling food and all but preparing to start eating each other
Watch: Douglas Murray live with Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris
In July I did two live events in Dublin and London with Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris. At each of these venues (the first at the 3Arena in Dublin, and the second at the O2 Arena in London) there were something in the region or eight or nine thousand people in attendance. Read more
New French edition of The Strange Death of Europe
L’étrange suicide de l’Europe est l’histoire d’un continent et d’une culture pris en flagrant délit de suicide. Baisse des taux de natalité, immigration massive, méfiance et haine de soi se sont conjuguées pour rendre les Européens de l’ouest incapables de résister aux changements globaux qu’ils ont subis, le plus souvent sans avoir été consultés. Ce […]