Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Walk on the wild side
The lion wakes me at 3 a.m. as it walks past my tent. It must be some while since an ancestor of mine has had to fear encountering the animal, so I am impressed at whatever hardwired impulse wakes me (amid all the other natural noise of the night) when the low grumbling occurs outside.
The ‘Islamophobia’ problem
This is a good time to bury bad news. And sure enough it turns out that a cross-party group of MPs and peers that includes the failed MP Baroness Warsi has chosen this moment to try to persuade the government to adopt their own definition of ‘Islamophobia’.
How the crumbling EU destroyed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Empress of Europe
How the crumbling EU destroyed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Empress of Europe. In the demise of Angela Merkel we can see, in parallel, the demise of her vision of Europe. A clear, federalist vision which once seemed inevitable and now sorely lacks a leader
Should it be illegal to insult Mohammed?
Should you be allowed to say that the founder of one of the world’s largest religions was a paedophile? According to the European Court of Human Rights the answer is ‘no’.
Another U.K. Rape-Gang Case
It is amazing what societies can get used to. The latest rape-gang case in the U.K. is a case in point. A gang of 20 men from Huddersfield were last week convicted and sentenced for the rape and abuse of girls as young as eleven. As in previous cases, the convicted men were of all […]
Is Julian Assange the world’s worst tenant?
Before taking up residence at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Assange lived at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk. This was at the invitation of his then-supporter Vaughan Smith, who lived with his family at that house. According to Andrew O’Hagan’s memoir of this time, ‘Ghosting’, Assange was a nightmare house guest.
Nazis old and new
So far as I know there was only one public statue erected in Europe after the war to commemorate a Nazi. And on a recent visit to Dublin I finally managed to visit it.
How three pranksters exposed the insanity of the social sciences
One of the most beautiful things to happen in recent years was ‘the conceptual penis as a social construct.
The ‘hate preacher’ hypocrisy
I had thought that when 22 young people get blown up by a suicide bomber in Manchester we were meant to say that it made ‘no sense’, that it ‘wouldn’t change us’ and that ‘love’ must overcome ‘hate’.
Here we go again – but this time, Je suis Berlin
Of course for the foreseeable future anybody suggesting that importing millions more Muslims into Europe isn’t wise will continue to be regarded as a way-out-there crank who is in a very real sense actually causing the trucks to go into the Christmas markets.
Remembering Christopher Hitchens
Just one of Christopher Hitchens’ talents would have been enough for most people. In him those talents — like his passions — all melded into each other: as speaker, writer and thinker.