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.

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…

Sky News has lost its way

28 September 2024 9:00 am

Occasionally I am told that I go too hard on the BBC. It is an understandable gripe which I sometimes…

Are the Tories brave enough to be conservative?

21 September 2024 9:00 am

The Conservative party is out of power – and that’s not easy if you’ve been in power for more than…

The C of E’s raving madness

14 September 2024 9:00 am

In February there was a commotion at Canterbury Cathedral. Or, to be more precise, there was a silent commotion. The…

The joy of our deluded politicians

7 September 2024 9:00 am

There are a number of joys in life that do not get enough attention. One is the sheer, unadulterated pleasure…

Labour’s age of miracles

31 August 2024 9:00 am

I am not yet eligible for the winter fuel allowance. Nor am I especially in favour of it, regarding it…

Shattering the myth of the ‘glass ceiling’

24 August 2024 9:00 am

What a thrilling number of glass ceilings have been broken this century – with more still to come, apparently. In…

The persecution of ‘the plebs’

17 August 2024 9:00 am

Not so long ago we went to politicians for politics and comedians for comedy. Today, like many others, I watch…

The unfashionable truth about the riots

10 August 2024 9:00 am

As the days slip by, the likelihood that anything will be learned from the recent rioting looks ever more remote.…

Will we always have Paris?

27 July 2024 9:00 am

There are times when you might be fooled into believing all is well. I had a moment of such weakness…

David Lammy’s Trump problem

20 July 2024 9:00 am

There’s no shortage of people who have spent recent years comparing Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. Among other places, the…