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External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Charlie Kirk’s death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game
Charlie Kirk died doing what he did best — talking with, debating and encouraging his fellow Americans.
Beware the restless, shifty liars
I have only been to Alexandria once, some years ago, when Hosni Mubarak was still in power, but it struck me as a sad city. Of course the library was not the library. The lighthouse was not the lighthouse. The city was not the city.
Coward Malcolm Gladwell admits he lied about trans athletes — and reveals an important truth about our modern culture
Could you be persuaded to say something you knew not to be true? Most of us would probably say “Absolutely not. Never.” But the evidence is that even a small amount of social pressure can make adults say things they know to be untrue.
Can anyone save Britain from self-destruction?
Tens of thousands of people turned out on the streets last week to protest against mass immigration. The protestors were promptly labelled ‘racist’ by their own government, ‘far-right’ by the New York Times and as having links to ‘neo-Nazis’ by the Guardian.
Why the row about the England flag matters
At the end of Sky News’s coverage of last year’s Notting Hill Carnival, its correspondent recited the usual list of arrests, stabbings and so on before concluding her piece to camera by saying: ‘But overall it’s been a really peaceful and enjoyable day.’
New Yorkers need only look to Newsom’s California to see how Mamdani can bring ruin to Big Apple
In our own country, there are many politicians who think that US cities in particular can put up with almost anything.
The oppression of Sally Rooney
Almost a decade ago the Irish academic Liam Kennedy published a tremendous book with the title Unhappy the Land: the Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish? It is a dissection of one of the most curious pathologies in the world: the desire to have been oppressed; a glorying in being repressed.
Alaska meeting was a start, but Putin is still up to his old tricks — and Trump knows it
Since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 there have been no face-to-face meetings between the leaders of Russia and the US.
Clive of India must not fall
He appears to be guilty of that most common of modern crimes: being found to have lived in the past.
Mamdani smears Cuomo for allegedly talking to Trump and yet associates himself with Mahmoud Khalil
Zohran Mamdani is trying to smear rival Andrew Cuomo by associating him with President Donald Trump.
My victory over Mohammed Hijab
One of the occupational hazards of being a journalist is being hounded by litigants. Indeed, one of the reasons why much of the media finds it easier to report fluff than to write about difficult issues is that the latter can be costly in terms of money, as well as time.
It’s important to get answers on Hillary Clinton’s RussiaGate plot
“Deflection,” “Distraction” and “Dishonest” are just some of the accusations leveled at President Trump recently for saying he’d like to look into past Democrat conspiracies against him.…