Douglas Murray
Author of four books, including 'The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'. Associate Editor @ The Spectator
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The Scruton tapes: an anatomy of a modern hit job
Sometimes a scandal is not just a scandal, but a biopsy of a society. So it is with the assault on Sir Roger Scruton, who in recent weeks has been smeared in the media, fired by the government and had…
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‘The Scruton tapes revealed’. The story of how a dishonest journalist and an online mob tried to destroy Sir Roger Scruton
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Der Rausschmiss von Roger Scruton offenbart die Feigheit der Tories
Der angesehene englische Philosoph Sir Roger Scruton wurde jüngst Opfer der Political Correctness: er verlor seinen Beraterposten in einer Baukommission.
What hope for a world without religion?
For our predictive texts series, we have asked our contributors to select a book which sheds eerily prescient light on our lives today. We weren’t after HG Wells or George Orwell, we wanted something less predictable. Here is the foresight so far....
Why I was wrong to call for Roger Scruton to be sacked
It’s been an interesting week. I was perhaps a little too hasty to jump in the ring and conduct what I thought was a defence of values that Tom Tugendhat and I both share. I saw him condemning what we…
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Johnny Mercer MP admits to being misled by the ‘poor journalism’ and ‘malicious intent’ of New Statesman journalist George Eaton @georgeeaton. @JasonCowleyNS
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Douglas Murray: Der Selbstmord Europas – Immigration, Identität, Islam
Der britische Autor Douglas Murray beschreibt in seinem aktuellen Buch „Der Selbstmord Europas – Immigration, Identität, Islam“ wie die politischen Eliten Europa in den Angrund führen. Er zeigt darin Anfänge, Entwicklung und gesellschaftliche Folgen...
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My speech in Berlin next week is now sold out, but anybody after returns can get in touch with the organisers here
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To all those asking for returns for my lecture in Berlin this evening, here is the organiser's page. Any tickets that do become available will be available through them.
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A Spectator debate: should euthanasia be legalised? Douglas Murray vs Sam Leith
Four years ago, the Assisted Dying Bill was overwhelmingly defeated in parliament. The euthanasia debate hasn’t disappeared, however. One recent poll showed that 90 per cent of the UK’s population now…
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In the Easter issue of The Spectator I debate the ethics of euthanasia with Sam Leith (@questingvole)
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Roger Scruton: Should I forgive the journalist who got me fired?
I travel back from London with the St Matthew Passion filling my head, after the moving performance from the Elysian Singers and Royal Orchestral Society under Sam Laughton at St James’s Piccadilly.
Roger Scruton Calls for New Statesman to Release Tapes of Interview That Got Him Fired -
A week after George Eaton celebrated with champagne the sacking of Sir Roger Scruton, the philosopher has called on the New Statesman to release the tapes of the interview that got him fired: If there is evidence to incriminate me then obviously the...
Der Verlust von Notre Dame ist kaum zu ertragen
Unsere Epoche muss sich eingestehen, dass sie Notre Dame nicht vor einer unfassbaren Schädigung bewahren konnte.
When will Roger Scruton’s detractors admit they were wrong?
In American law there is a concept called ‘the fruit of the poison tree’ which means that if the source of some alleged evidence is rotten, or has been wrongfully obtained, then everything coming from…
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New: ‘The fruit of the Eaton mess. When will Roger Scruton’s detractors admit they were wrong?’ @georgeeaton @JasonCowleyNS
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The Conservative and Labour Parties Are Both Unfit to Govern
A great question looms over British politics. Should we smash the major parties?
Johnny Mercer may regret choosing the left-wing outrage mob over Roger Scruton
The smearing of Sir Roger Scruton exemplifies the current wretched state of politics in this country.
Notre Dame’s loss is too much to bear
Civilisation only ever hangs by a thread. Today one of those threads seems to have frayed, perhaps snapped. It is impossible to watch the footage coming out of Paris. Like videos of pornographic…
Join my Nato or watch critical thinking die
Seventy years ago this month Nato was established to protect western Europe and the freedoms of its inhabitants from the threat of Soviet communism. It has become clear to me that we now need a...
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'The reputation destroyed last week was not Sir Roger Scruton's but the New Statesman's.' So, rightly, says Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) in today's Sunday Times about the journalistic deceits of @georgeeaton. @JasonCowleyNS
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Mail Online - Peter Hitchens blog
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In the Mail on Sunday Peter Hitchens sees the George Eaton / New Statesman scandal as reflecting worst on James Brokenshire (@JBrokenshire)
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On my interview with Roger Scruton
On 27 March I interviewed Roger Scruton: the piece was published as an “Encounter” in the Observations section of the New Statesman magazine but also on the website on 10 April. As a result of his remarks in the interview Scruton was sacked as chair...
The trouble with dog-whistles
One of the strange habits of our time is the one in which a self-appointed class roams the land, hands cupped to their ear, hoping to discern something they can identify as a ‘dog-whistle’. I wrote about this habit after Conservative MP Suella...
Douglas Murray Vs Julian Assange and Wikileaks
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For those asking, I said everything I had to say about Julian Assange to his face 8 years ago. At an event organised by the New Statesman, as it happens...
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Roger Scruton: An apology for thinking
I recently gave an interview to the New Statesman, on the assumption that, as the magazine’s former wine critic I would be treated with respect, and that the journalist, George Eaton, was sincere in…
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Rule by ‘vigilante’. Roger Scruton responds to the lies published by the New Statesman’s @georgeeaton
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