Articles
External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications
What the BBC doesn’t understand about gay voters
In my latest book, ‘The Madness of Crowds’ (copies of which can be found in all remaining [not remainder] bookstores, etc) I mentioned in passing that I sometimes wondered how it feels to be a heterosexual reading the news these days.
Once more without feeling
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq reviewed.
Beware the creepy male feminist
‘White knights’ like Robert De Niro often turn out to be less than chivalrous.
In the ashes of post-Cold War hubris, we rediscovered the fragility of our freedom
The 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is not just a time to remember that monumental event. It is also a time to reflect on the hopes and expectations that existed in its aftermath. Of course what stands out now is the triumphalism.
Drag kids are the product of a dangerous American delusion
The way the 12-year-old drag act, Desmond is Amazing, has been pushed on the world betrays a worrying tendency.
How Kanye West is countering the counter-culture
With his interest in ‘small-c conservative’ issues, the rapper is kicking against the artistic establishment
How did Naomi Wolf get away with it for so long?
The author’s error-ridden latest book is being pulped, but the public intellectual has long peddled sloppy stats and conspiracy theories
Don’t be such a chicken about Chick-fil-A
While never having felt any previous urge to dine in Reading, I now find myself trying to secure a table at the Oracle Shopping Centre. Should any Spectator reader wish to join me there over the next week, I can ask Chick-fil-A to make it a table for two.
Hate-Crime Creep
In July I wrote about one of the increasing number of occasions when the intersectional rainbow gets inadvertently rent in twain.
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.