Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
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 […]
Immigration en Europe : le cri d’alarme de Douglas Murray, le Zemmour britannique
ENTRETIEN EXCLUSIF – Dans son dernier essai, L’Étrange suicide de l’Europe, qui est resté près de vingt semaines dans le top 10 des meilleures ventes du Sunday Times, il décrit les conséquences mortifères de l’immigration incontrôlée dans une Europe en voie de désintégration.
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.