Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Longlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Journalism
DOUGLAS MURRAY Spectator, Sunday Times Who will protect northern Nigeria’s Christians? (The Spectator, 04/02/2017) The IRA killer ready to save me (Sunday Times, 27/08/2017) Rolling tanks, plastic flowers and madness on parade: a visit to North Korea (The Spectator, 16/12/2017)
How Europe’s Way of Denial Became a Way of Death
Douglas Murray’s book, “The Strange Death of Europe”, reviewed by Samuel Gregg of the Witherspoon Institute (external link)
Britain is not to blame for Shamima Begum’s radicalisation
Of all the points made on the case of Shamima Begum, the most relevant has been utterly absent. That is, who might actually be responsible for this appalling young woman being who she is and where she is.
The darkest dawn
Remembering one of the Great War’s most terrible tragedies
Vienna’s empty streets
The Sappho Prize is an award given annually by the Free Press Society of Denmark, and as I remarked on receiving it recently, it has sometimes seemed as though I am the only person I know who hasn’t received it.
If Brexit is abandoned, will it ever be worth voting again?
‘If we don’t leave the EU, or if we somehow get tricked into remaining in everything but name’, I said to my friend, ‘I just don’t think I’ll bother voting again.’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Likens Caravan to Jews Fleeing Nazi Germany
I am reluctant to write about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Not just because she is written about quite enough already. But because she has developed an almost Trumpian habit of saying things that are largely untrue but assured to get her attention.
Does America oppose female genital mutilation – or not?
Twenty years ago almost no one in the West had heard of Female Genital Mutilation. Then in the 2000s, thanks to a few brave and vocal campaigners like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, knowledge of this barbaric practice began to spread.
Asia Bibi and the case that makes a mockery of Britain’s asylum laws
In between the small amount of other news this week there has been a certain amount of attention on the plight of the Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi and her family. Bibi has spent most of this decade on death-row in Pakistan. Her crime is that a bigoted Muslim neighbour of hers made up a crock […]
‘The Process of Living’
Until about a decade ago it seemed as though every figure in literary history was owed a doorstop-sized account of his life. The trade of literary biography boomed, publishers still doled out advances, and universities even set up “life writing” courses, as though a dearth of trained practitioners was a risk.
How Immigration Changes Britain
Almost nothing is discussed as badly in America or Europe as the subject of immigration. And one reason is that it remains almost impossible to have any sensible or rational public discussion of its consequences. Or rather it is eminently possible to have a discussion about the upsides (“diversity,” talent, etc.) but almost impossible to […]
The ignorant hounding of Roger Scruton
There are times when you wonder whether our culture is too stupid to survive. The thought has kept occurring over recent days as I have watched the cooked-up furore over the appointment of Sir Roger Scruton to chair a British government commission looking into beauty in architecture.