Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society and an author, most recently of Bloody Sunday: Truth, lies and the Saville Inquiry.

The hypocrisy of the Heathrow Nimbys

5 April 2025 9:00 am

Some readers may have noticed that it takes rather a long time to get anything done in Britain these days.…

JFK conspiracy theories won’t die

29 March 2025 9:00 am

One of the most controversial things that can happen at any American table is to start talking about the JFK…

Something is rotten in Stratford-upon-Avon

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Almost every nation has a national poet. The Russians have Pushkin. The Persians have Ferdowsi. The Albanians have Gjergj Fishta.…

Why Nigel should listen to Rupert

15 March 2025 9:00 am

I was thinking lately of Robert Kilroy-Silk. For younger readers, and people who were never students or unemployed, a quick…

The MAGA movement is wrong on Ukraine

8 March 2025 9:00 am

How can the right be so wrong? Or at least portions of the right – especially the American right –…

What Europe gets wrong about the far right

1 March 2025 9:00 am

The head of America’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (Doge) has written to all federal workers in the US asking them…

Keep Britain blasphemous

22 February 2025 9:00 am

In its infinite wisdom, the Labour government appears to be reconsidering the introduction of a blasphemy law in the UK.…

Pride in Britain? It’s history

15 February 2025 9:00 am

A poll out this week found that only 41 per cent of those aged 18 to 27 are proud to…

America has seen sense on aid. When will we?

8 February 2025 9:00 am

The new administration in Washington has somewhat startled its critics by issuing a blizzard of executive orders during its opening…

The hard truth about Britain’s soft power

1 February 2025 9:00 am

How hard is your soft power? According to David Lammy, Britain’s soft power is so strong and underrated that he…

Britain is losing friends – and making enemies

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Whatever way you voted in 2016, I suspect that many of us have the same image of post-Brexit Britain. It…

The day DEI went up in smoke

18 January 2025 9:00 am

What’s in a word? ‘Equality’. ‘Equity’. It’s the sort of thing that Channel 4 newsreaders find impossible to understand. Surely…

What real justice would look like for grooming gang victims

11 January 2025 9:00 am

It is always interesting to watch a dam burst. In the past week, as Elon Musk and other prominent Americans…

Most-read 2024: The unfashionable truth about the riots

28 December 2024 4:00 pm

We’re closing 2024 by republishing our five most-read articles of the year. Here’s No. 4: Douglas Murray’s article from August…

My rules for church readings

14 December 2024 9:00 am

It is that time of year when people in churches across the land have to face the difficult question of…

Beware the Qataris

7 December 2024 9:00 am

I feel some sympathy for the British royal family because of the ghastly people they are forced to meet. The…

How to get on the housing ladder

30 November 2024 9:00 am

It is always interesting to watch the debates that roil a nation. So far as I can see, the current…

Britain’s failing statecraft

23 November 2024 9:00 am

I mentioned some weeks ago that one of the great points of interest – not to say enjoyment – in…

Welcome to life on Planet Elon

16 November 2024 9:00 am

On 13 July this year, an assassin’s bullet grazed the ear of Donald Trump as he turned his head on…

The problem with Dawn Butler

9 November 2024 9:00 am

We hear a lot about white supremacy these days. But for some reason we rarely hear about black supremacy. I…

The strange silence around the Southport attacks

2 November 2024 9:00 am

There are certain rules in British public life that are worth noting. Such as this one: if someone is killed…

The ICC’s rogue prosecutor

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of 7 October, went to meet his maker last week. Having spent a year being pursued…

The rise of anti-Elonism

19 October 2024 9:00 am

You can tell a lot about a country by who it admires. I was pleasantly surprised some years ago to…

Does Keir Starmer have a soul?

12 October 2024 9:00 am

One of the main arguments against hereditary peerages is that talent and ability are not always passed down across generations.…

Israel was right to ignore the West

5 October 2024 9:00 am

There are sources in the Jewish tradition that warn against exultation at the downfall of one’s enemies. But I am…