Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Who’ll be the next jihadi-jackpot winner?
Reading the news this week of Jihadi Jack (née Letts, of Oxfordshire) having his UK passport withdrawn, my mind went to a Canadian television programme earlier this year.
It’s your fault newspapers don’t tell the truth
It is not fair to single out journalists for criticism or opprobrium without mentioning that there is another guilty party in this breakdown of trust between the media and the public. And that party is, of course, the public.
Grief-stricken Remainers have unforgivably poisoned our politics with their Brexit despair
As a Leave voter I don’t blame them for the feeling of grief. I simply think they should have got over it.
Meghan and Harry are playing a dangerous game
The Duke and Duchess of Woke shouldn’t raise the subject of ‘unearned privilege’
Any type of Brexit is better than no Brexit at all
I didn’t ‘savage’ Matthew Parris on Newsnight, says Douglas Murray. But the exchange did highlight one of the reasons why I chip into this discussion so rarely.
Twitter holds up a black mirror to ‘unbiased’ TV reporters
Twitter is not always the best medium for exchanging ideas. I use it — but only as a notification platform. I see on it people I once admired behave in a way that erases nearly all respect.
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 […]