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.

What the response to London's young graffiti cleaners reveals

7 June 2020 11:26 pm

Further Black Lives Matter protests took place yesterday in the UK, in response to the death of a man at…

Why are street protestors exempt from the corona clause?

6 June 2020 9:00 am

It is nearly four years since Black Lives Matter had their first major protest in London. Emulating their US counterparts,…

Why should Cummings be sacked for protecting his family?

24 May 2020 5:00 am

There have been an enormous number of positive attributes on display during the lockdown. Family members keeping an eye on…

X days to save the economy!

23 May 2020 9:00 am

I wonder what the Labour party will use as its scare slogan at the next election? After all, the usual…

It's time to take a stand against Chinese bullying

20 May 2020 2:43 am

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned in the magazine how the Chinese Communist Party has been trying to bully…

Hugging China hasn’t done us any favours

9 May 2020 9:00 am

Like nearly everything named a ‘scandal’, ‘affair’ or given the post-fix ‘gate’, almost nobody now remembers the Dalai Lama affair.…

Do Joe Biden's supporters still ‘believe all women’?

30 April 2020 9:20 pm

There is an obvious attraction in certain simple claims. ‘Believe all women’, for instance, is easy to utter, beneficial to…

I love my fellow hacks – even when I disagree with them

24 April 2020 11:00 pm

It’s one way to keep in touch with people. Each morning, somewhere between the first coffee of the day and…

Monkeys, bats and our national trust

11 April 2020 9:00 am

There was always one key flaw in our species. Which is that someone always shags a monkey. I have expressed…

Four of the best Spectator pieces I've ever read

5 April 2020 6:00 pm

One of the things that lockdown allows you to do is not just to read but to re-read. Obviously the…

In this strange new world, where do we find purpose?

28 March 2020 9:00 am

Perhaps we are at least past the beginning of this crisis. The phase where the hunt for multipacks of loo-rolls…

The Guardian's trans rights civil war rumbles on

21 March 2020 4:55 pm

At times of great stress it is necessary to find your enjoyments where you can. And as I mentioned in…

Will the NHS drop its trans obsession when peak coronavirus hits?

15 March 2020 12:08 am

As coronavirus sweeps across the country, I am sure people will be reassured to know that the NHS is doing…

Don’t tell me what I can read

14 March 2020 9:00 am

At least none of us will have to pretend that we read Woody Allen’s memoirs. This week the publishers Hachette…

How Sinn Fein got away with murder

29 February 2020 9:00 am

The online world should be credited when it gets something right. And on Twitter an account titled ‘On This Day…

How low can the BBC go?

21 February 2020 10:00 pm

Last weekend’s papers claimed that the government desires a ‘massively pruned back’ BBC. Former Conservative cabinet minister Damian Green and…

Why I’ll never become an MP

15 February 2020 9:00 am

Every now and then someone asks me if I have ever thought of becoming an MP. My response tends to…

Conservative politician forced to apologise for attending conservative conference

14 February 2020 9:28 am

Every now and then someone asks me if I have ever thought of becoming a politician. My response tends to…

Why I’m standing by my old enemy Selina Todd

1 February 2020 9:00 am

Most people won’t have heard of Selina Todd. The only reason I had was because some years ago the BBC…

How to fight back against ‘cancel culture’

25 January 2020 6:30 pm

‘Cancel culture’ is a horrible term because outside of a dictatorship nobody can actually be ‘canceled’ or otherwise ‘disappeared’. All…

Roger Scruton: A man who seemed bigger than the age

13 January 2020 6:32 am

Sir Roger Scruton has died. Diagnosed with cancer last summer, he passed away peacefully on Sunday surrounded by his family.…

‘I aspire to write for posterity’: An interview with Tom Stoppard

21 December 2019 9:00 am

Sir Tom Stoppard is Britain’s — perhaps the world’s — leading playwright. Born Tomas Straussler in Zlin, Czechoslovakia, in 1937,…

The failed lessons of the London Bridge attack

3 December 2019 3:06 am

Some readers have been asking me to comment on the latest London Bridge terrorism incident. And if I have some…

The carnage inside Charlie Hebdo: an eyewitness’s account of the attack

23 November 2019 9:00 am

It is almost five years since two trained jihadists went into the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris and killed…

debate

Who’s listening? Civilized debate is dead

5 November 2019 4:59 am

This article is in The Spectator’s November 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. Today nearly all real public discussion has become impossible. Which…