The Iranian rebellion the world wants to ignore
If there is one lesson the world should have learned from Iran’s ‘Green Revolution’ of 2009 and the so-called Arab…
Rolling tanks, plastic flowers and madness on parade: A visit to North Korea
As Kim Jong-un might blow up the world next year, if not this, and people are forever trying to work…
The consequence of this new sexual counter-revolution? No sex at all
We are in the middle of a profound shift in our attitude towards sex. A sexual counter-revolution, if you will.…
Poor conduct
Last weekend Daniel Barenboim brought the Staatskapelle Berlin to perform at the BBC Proms for a cycle of Elgar’s symphonies.…
The known wolf
The meeting place of the two worlds could not have been more sharply defined. In Manchester Arena, thousands of young…
Is Le Pen really ‘far-right’?
What is ‘far-right’? With the progress of Marine Le Pen to France’s presidential run-off, the term has been liberally used…
In defence of Ken
We never loved each other, Ken Livingstone and I. We first clashed in public more than a decade ago, and…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Abandoned to their fate
Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to…
Abandoned to their fate
Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to…
Abandoned to their fate
Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to…
Dutch courage
It looks like the people might do it again. After the British electorate misled themselves so badly and American voters…
The empathy trap
Being against empathy sounds like being against flowers or sparrows. Surely empathy is a good thing? Isn’t one of the…
The empathy trap
Being against empathy sounds like being against flowers or sparrows. Surely empathy is a good thing? Isn’t one of the…
It’s time to consider the real Trump
For 18 months, Donald Trump was amazingly useful to British politicians. Whatever their party, he provided them with the most…
It’s time to consider the real Trump
For 18 months, Donald Trump was amazingly useful to British politicians. Whatever their party, he provided them with the most…
Diary
I have never met Donald Trump, but I knew his parents. A fact that makes me feel about 100 years…
Diary
I have never met Donald Trump, but I knew his parents. A fact that makes me feel about 100 years…
Lights, camera, politics
At the end of Sunday night’s US presidential debate, the moderators snuck in a final question from a slightly shell…
Europe’s summer of terror
How is your Merkelsommer going? For now, Britain seems to be missing the worst. True, a couple of men of…
A trick of the light
There is a moment at the start of most authors’ careers when it is hard to get anything published, and…
How Recep Erdogan became the most powerful man in Europe
President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them
Songs of the blood and the sword
Douglas Murray 28 October 2017 9:00 am
Jihadi Culture might sound like a joke title for a book, like ‘Great Belgians’ or ‘Canadian excitements’. But in this…