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.

How to ruin a city

14 June 2025 9:00 am

Why would you choose to make a city crappy? Plenty of cities don’t have much going for them. But when…

Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain

7 June 2025 9:00 am

Five years ago, the man who is now Lord Hermer gave an interview to the Times. The then QC was…

The derangement of Harvard

31 May 2025 9:00 am

It is 60 years since William F. Buckley said that he would ‘rather be governed by the first 2,000 people…

The death of public discourse

24 May 2025 9:00 am

It is said that since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, it is once again possible to use the…

Should you be arrested for reading The Spectator?

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Regular readers will know that I have an obsession with home burglaries. Specifically those occasions when a burglar goes into…

Our politicians find truth more painful than fiction

10 May 2025 9:00 am

Do you remember the great Adolescence debate? It may feel like an age ago, but way back in March Netflix…

The unbearable smugness of American journalists

3 May 2025 9:00 am

Polls occasionally appear which reveal the extent to which people trust – or rather don’t trust – journalists. In one…

The unbearable smugness of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner

1 May 2025 3:17 am

A poll from last year found that just 31 percent of the British public said they trust the media, a…

When will the BBC ever learn?

26 April 2025 9:00 am

They say that death and taxes are the only certain things in this life. I would add BBC bias into…

Why were the Abedis here in the first place?

19 April 2025 9:00 am

In recent days parliament has been recalled on a Saturday to debate the renationalisation of the British steel industry. Then,…

The secret to great friendships

12 April 2025 9:00 am

A few years back, a friend from Newcastle was down in London and I was giving him a tour of…

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…