Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
Woke GQ reeks of fear
The once-aspirational men’s magazine seems intent on denigrating what it once stood for.
The death of civilised debate
Voicing ideas is now so dangerous that real public discussion has become impossible.
Our Shortsighted Addiction to Shaming and Schadenfreude
Living in a world where non-crimes have the same effect as true crimes is especially deranging.
The empty lives of Extinction Rebellion fanatics
Bored, white elites flock to XR in search of meaning and purpose — and something to complain about
The Brexit Knot
Britain now faces a great political and constitutional crisis.
Extinction Rebellion Targets London
In recent days London has been targeted by the group Extinction Rebellion (XR). They are a group who believe that all life on earth is likely to be wiped out soon thanks to mankind’s pollution of the planet.
Why do we listen to a bunch of anarchists who can’t even work a fire hose?
The activists, from Extinction Rebellion (XR), believe they know exactly what is happening to our planet and how we must tackle it, but they do not know how to operate a fire hose.
What Michael Gove really said at the German embassy
In the magazine cover piece this week I describe how institutions as well as individuals are having a hard time making it through this deranging age.
Will maths succumb to the woke wave?
Nowadays, even the hard sciences are “all relative” — and students will suffer for it.
An uncanny gift for prophecy — the genius of Michel Houellebecq
His latest novel, Serotonin, written before the gilets jaunes movement, depicts the rapid deterioration of rural France, squeezed by the EU and globalisation.
The BBC can no longer claim to be impartial
Is impartiality desirable? Is it even possible? Among journalists and broadcasters of a certain age the answer would still be “yes”. True, it was difficult. Certainly the aspiration often went unachieved. But it was something to aim for, at least.
Whatever happened to ‘publish and be damned’?
The cancelling of James Flynn’s book is another sign that much of the industry has stopped being a place for the free exchange of ideas.