Douglas Murray
Bestselling author of five books, including 'The Madness of Crowds' and 'The Strange Death of Europe'. Associate Editor @ The Spectator
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Can hurt feelings trump free speech? | Douglas Murray
Why is there such a proliferation of books about free speech? Who buys them? Who reads them? And what are they for? These were the principal questions…
After Brexit, Britain Carries On
The dire predictions look alarmist now.
Douglas Murray
My piece in the latest issue of @NRO. ‘After Brexit, Britain carries on.’
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How low can the BBC go?
Last weekend’s papers claimed that the government desires a ‘massively pruned back’ BBC. Former Conservative cabinet minister Damian Green and someone called Huw Merriman spoke out against this, which…
Warum ich niemals Abgeordneter werden will
Mit Kawczynski war auf der Konferenz in Rom ein konservativer Abgeordneter dabei, der mit guten Konservativen des Kontinents Freundschaft schließen wollte.
Society is in thrall to the mad and bad orthodoxies of the liberal Left
Green and trans extremists are creating powerful new religions
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My column in the Telegraph today. About ‘environmentalists’ who destroy the environment and politicians who think the penis is an invention of ‘transphobes’
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‘“Talking about penises and vaginas doesn’t help the conversation,” Dawn Butler countered, wearily, as though such things are so last century.’
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'My whole world fell apart': Shamima Begum speaks after losing first stage of appeal to regain UK citizenship
Shamima Begum, who travelled to Syria to join the so-called Islamic State, says her "whole world fell apart" when her British citizenship was revoked.
Speaking for the first time since losing the initial stage of a legal challenge against the...
Jordan Peterson fought political correctness and is now seriously ill
DOUGLAS MURRAY: In a dramatic video published on YouTube last week, a woman looked to the camera and revealed that her father, Jordan Peterson, was in intensive care in Russia.
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'It is a feature of our toxic age that people who like to present themselves as the kindest can be relied upon to be vicious as hell in a cause they think is good.'
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The strange tragedy of John Bercow
In his autobiography, the former speaker reveals himself to be an embittered avatar of ambition
Delingpod 56: Douglas Murray
Douglas Murray explains how leftists maintain a deathgrip on public office, why the Conservatives must make appointments to demoralize their opposition, and ...
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This week I appeared on the frequently career-ending Delingpod. But I am grateful to @JamesDelingpole for the enforced interview and ended up enjoying it immensely
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Why I’ll never become an MP
Every now and then someone asks me if I have ever thought of becoming an MP. My response tends to be a laugh so deranged that the question answers itself. When I manage to verbalise the answer it…
BBC Two - Politics Live, 12/02/2020
The big political issues of the day. Includes live coverage of Prime Minister’s Questions.
Where are all the conservative thinkers who should be rebalancing public life?
We are coming to the end of almost a decade of Conservative-majority rule in the UK.
Starbucks' new charity associations leave a bitter taste in the mouth
If you enjoy puddle-like coffee and pastries with the texture of rock-cakes then you are doubtless a fan of Starbucks, the horrible American coffee chain which sits on every high street in the world.
A Conversation with Douglas Murray | Mark Bauerlein
Douglas Murray discusses his recent book, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity.
The danger, and hope, of the European Right
This week's National Conservatism conference in Rome brought together the continent's leading nationalist thinkers
Four defences of free speech that everyone should read
Every generation, and individual, has to rediscover the arguments for free speech for themselves. Some people learn from major incidents. Some when the censors come for someone close to them, or an…
DOUGLAS MURRAY on Alistair Stewart's forced exit
DOUGLAS MURRAY: Alastair Stewart was one of the few journalists on social media who presented a fair and sensible view of the world. So of course he had to go.
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‘Alistair Stewart’s forced exit should be a turning point. We all need to stand up to the woke totalitarians’
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Will no one resist the new totalitarianism?
Some of Alastair Stewart’s friends will fight for him — but too many of us will let him simply disappear
Douglas Murray: «Le Royaume-Uni a un avenir incroyable devant lui»
ENTRETIEN - L’essayiste anglais se félicite du retrait de la Grande-Bretagne de l’Union. Il juge que ses compatriotes ont voulu retrouver leur pleine souveraineté dans le cadre de leurs institutions politiques nationales.
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'Le Royaume-Uni a un avenir incroyable devant lui'. Friday's edition of Le Figaro has a long interview with me about the UK's exit from the European Union.
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'Rien ne pouvait être plus loin de la vérité. Nous devrons tous faire un effort supplémentaire dans les années à venir pour le démontrer, et j’espère que nous le ferons.'
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British broadcaster resigns over ‘racist’ Shakespeare quote
Do Alastair Stewart’s bosses at ITV really believe that he hates black people because he cited the Shakespeare play Measure for Measure?