Douglas Murray
Author of four books, including 'The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'. Associate Editor @ The Spectator
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The confusing modern rules of telling a ‘joke’
The pace of outrage is such these days that before anybody has thought through any one outrage we are all expected to have moved onto the next one. So while everyone is still trying to work out the…
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‘The confusing modern rules on telling a joke’
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Why should the BBC censor the public?
If the BBC thought that its leadership debate would concentrate heat on those in the race, that backfired. The corporation did everything in its power to make things awkward for the candidates. They had to perch on high, thin stools with their legs...
What do we want from our leaders?
What is ‘charisma’? I ask the question seriously. Like a lot of terms (see ‘populism’), the word seems to be in constant flux. In her UnHerd article, Elizabeth Oldfield demonstrated how, in its present usage, ‘charisma’ has come almost completely...
Douglas Murray And Roger Scruton On The Future Of Conservatism & Debate | The Spectator
Douglas Murray: In conversation with Roger Scruton. We bring together two of the sharpest – and controversial – minds in Britain to discuss: What does it mea...
Mahathir Mohamad and the hypocrisy of Cambridge University
One of the most enjoyable videos to watch on YouTube features Colonel Gadafi. I am not referring to those snuff videos which cover the internet in which the Libyan leader is shown getting the sharp…
Hong Kong shows that the West has lost its confidence in democracy and self-determination
Three years ago I happened to be in Hong Kong as the “Umbrella Protests” were sputtering out.
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My column in today's Telegraph: 'Hong Kong shows that the West has lost its confidence in democracy and self-determination'.
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Douglas Murray | Meaning & Western Civilization
It has been a while since Douglas Murray got a video, overdue. Thanks for watching, subscribe for more :) Douglas Murray answers a question about meaning in ...
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Someone has picked up on comments I recently made on 'Meaning and Western civilisation' and turned them into this rather elegant video
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The Reality of Sweden’s Migration Problem
The scale of this assault is such that Neuding says that it is time for Swedes to admit that they have a national emergency on their hands.
Have you been radicalized by the New York Times?
The piece is about a single unheard of young man in America who claims that because he watched ‘radical’ videos on YouTube he became radicalized
The New York Times and the problem with ‘radicalisation’
One of the words that has become increasingly useless over recent years is ‘radicalisation’. As more and more terrorist attacks took place across the West in recent years the word got trotted out with…
British values have nothing to do with this craze for facile virtue-signalling
At the beginning of this week the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, delivered a video message to Donald Trump.
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My column in today’s Telegraph: ‘British values have nothing to do with this craze for facile virtue-signalling’.
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The ethical nightmare we won't confront
Nothing pleases some people more than when others get something wrong. The Germans even have a word for it. Naomi Wolf was on the receiving end of it recently. It emerged, in the course of a live broadcast, that she had made a serious mistake in...
The Madness of Crowds
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplaces,...
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My new book, 'The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, Identity' is out on 17th September. Available to pre-order now: bloomsbury.com/uk/the-madness… pic.twitter.com/MSJUAzgTIW
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Why this year’s al-Quds Day march could be different
This weekend might provide an interesting spectacle. On Sunday the annual al-Quds Day march sets off in London from outside the Home Office. Of course al-Quds Day is the day inaugurated by the late…
The intellectually barren Tories are losing the battle of ideas against the Left
What is wrong with the Right?
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My column in today’s Telegraph: ‘The intellectually barren Tories are losing the battle of ideas against the left’.
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Why the herd hates Cleese
One by one the herd picks people out and attempts to trample them. Not content with stampeding over people for fresh crimes, it takes to the internet to sweep the past for misdemeanors. It can now trample over people not only for new crimes of...
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'While the clerical class has entirely changed over the last 40 years, John Cleese has not.'
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Strange Claims about Britain’s European Elections
We have entered an era in which (to borrow a phrase from the Irish writer Kevin Myers) the truth becomes “whatever you’re having yourself.”
Why are Jewish people 'wandering' again?
Sometimes in the middle of grand political events – including grand political cock-ups – the story of one individual stands out and speaks for more than itself. Such a moment occurred last week with decision of one British man and his partner to...
TRIGGERnometry: Douglas Murray on Roger Scruton, Intersectionality and the Trans Debate on Apple Podcasts
Show TRIGGERnometry, Ep Douglas Murray on Roger Scruton, Intersectionality and the Trans Debate - 26 May 2019