Douglas Murray
Author of four books, including 'The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'. Associate Editor @ The Spectator
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Does Kim Jong-un deliberately emulate a Bond villain?
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong-un by Anna Fifield reviewed. A window into the world of the North Korean dictator
Opportunistic MPs are wrong to think they'll become PM by thwarting Brexit
ALL MPs have one thing in common. They all think that one day the nation will call and, by some freakish chain of events, they might end up living in No10. But rarely have so many bizarre bids for …
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My column in today’s Sun
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Our anti-capitalist, anti-Western universities no longer care about excellence
I always took some persuading to believe that Goldsmiths, University of London, actually existed.
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My column in today’s Telegraph. ‘Do our universities still care about excellence?’
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Does Kim Jong-un deliberately emulate a Bond villain?
North Korea watchers are good book-buyers, rarely able to resist scratching that itch of interest caused by the world’s worst regime. Accounts by escapees sit on our shelves alongside the memoirs of…
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Also in this week's issue of The Spectator (out today) I review a new biography of Kim Jong-Un
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Right from wrong: a guide to the new European politics
Italy is preparing to go back to the polls and this time Matteo Salvini looks set to return as the undisputed king of Italian politics. His Lega party (formerly the Northern League) has split with its…
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In this week’s Spectator cover story, I look at what - in a changing Europe - is ‘right’ and what is ‘far-right’.
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Just look at the chaos across the Channel and it's blindingly obvious we are right to leave the EU
The Remainer myth that Europe is a safe bet has become untenable
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My column in today’s Telegraph: ‘There is no shame in having spent these years attempting to ensure that we remain a sovereign, self-governing nation, with a Parliament elected by and accountable to the people’.
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The Spectator Podcast: beaches, Brexit, and Desert Island bores
An Audioboom post by Spectator Radio
It's your fault newspapers don't tell the truth
A couple of weeks ago I wrote here about the problem of contemporary broadcasters and bias. Specifically, the problem presented when ‘impartial’ news journalists start to betray their personal political stances through social media platforms like...
The UK’s best beaches – according to Spectator writers
Tom Holland Trevone, Cornwall Pretty much every summer, my family and my cousins head for a farm in north Cornwall, strategically situated for visits to our favourite beach: Trevone. A beautiful cove…
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For this week’s magazine Spectator writers were asked to recommend their favourite beaches. I’m in there between Cressida Bonas and Michael Heath.
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The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray | Waterstones
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Signed hardback editions of ‘The Madness of Crowds’ can now be pre-ordered from Waterstones here
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Grief-stricken Remainers have unforgivably poisoned our politics with their Brexit despair
According to the Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, there are five stages of grief.
Meghan and Harry are playing a dangerous game
All eras have their hierarchies, just as all eras have their intellectual games. Often the two coincide, so that the people who play the game with skill emerge at the top of the hierarchy, while those who do not find themselves at the bottom. Among...
No type of Brexit is worse than no Brexit at all
It’s a strange beast, the internet. On Monday night, I was slightly reluctantly dragged onto Newsnight to discuss Brexit. Attentive readers will know that I very rarely write or speak about the…
Twitter holds up a black mirror to 'unbiased' TV reporters
TWITTER is not always the best medium for exchanging ideas. I use it — but only as a notification platform. I see on it people I once admired behave in a way that erases nearly all respect. Intell…
Boris Johnson should honour those who defend Western civilisation — now
One of the battlefields most underrated by politicians is culture. Yet nothing is more important in the long — or eve...
Watch: Douglas Murray and Matthew Parris on a no-deal Brexit
Two Spectator contributors were invited on to the BBC’s Newsnight last night to discuss the prospect of Britain leaving the EU without a deal on 31 October. Matthew Parris and Doulgas Murray joined…
Broadcaster bias is destroying public trust
Twitter is not always the best medium for exchanging ideas. I use it, but only as notification platform because I see on it people who I once admired behave in a way that erases nearly all respect. Intelligent individuals make comments they would...
Society cannot be run by Twitter mobs
Two considerable injustices were undone this week. The first was the reinstatement of Sir Roger Scruton to the government’s ‘Building better, building beautiful’ commission. The second was the…
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In this week’s Spectator. ‘Society cannot be run by Twitter mobs’. On the vindication of Roger Scruton and the disgrace of Tom Watson.
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Since writing this piece James Brokenshire has lost his job. I will leave it to others to editorialise on the justice of this...
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Roger Scruton gets his job back
Roger Scruton has been reappointed as head of a government housing body after he was sacked in April following a magazine interview in which his views were misrepresented. The letter from housing…