Douglas Murray
Author of four books, including 'The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam'. Associate Editor @ The Spectator
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Why we mustn't leave debate to the extremists
I think we might have to invent a new political term. It is to describe an issue of importance, but one that you have decided not to engage with – or may even have denied is an issue – because those already interested in it are not people you are...
The ‘Islamophobia’ problem
This is a good time to bury bad news. And sure enough it turns out that a cross-party group of MPs and peers that includes the failed MP Baroness Warsi has chosen this moment to try to persuade the…
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‘The “Islamophobia” problem’
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The best books of 2018
With 2018 drawing to a close, our writers and contributors have taken their pick of the 2018 literary bunch - and compiled a list which makes the perfect inspiration for your holiday reading. Simon Sebag Montefiore Great espionage novels are not...
Does America oppose female genital mutilation – or not?
A Detroit judge suggests that the barbarism of female genital mutilation can be accepted in modern American society. Is he serious?
‘The Process of Living’
Douglas Murray reviews Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time, by Hilary Spurling.
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The latest issue of National Review includes this long essay by me on Anthony Powell
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‘The process of living’. My review of ‘Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time’ by Hilary Spurling.
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Asia Bibi and the case that makes a mockery of Britain’s asylum laws
In between the small amount of other news this week there has been a certain amount of attention on the plight of the Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi and her family. Bibi has spent most of this decade…
If politicians lie, then why shouldn't I?
We’ve got plenty of good reasons to lie. And increasingly few reasons not to. So why aren’t we all at it? I was wondering this while watching Labour’s attempts to bar Sir Roger Scruton from a government appointment. Earlier this week, the Opposition...
Why we can never forget the pity of war
In his 1987 book The Old Lie: the Great War and the public-school ethos, Peter Parker wrote: “Before the Great War there was no war poetry as we now conceive the term… Instead there was martial verse.” This was true even after the start of the war....
Asia Bibi Not Offered U.K. Asylum
The British government reportedly will not offer asylum to Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy.
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Asia Bibi should be able to come to the UK. It is those who would threaten her who should not be here.
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The ignorant hounding of Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton has no betters: there are very few who come anywhere near to him. Yet his moronic detractors may well succeed in stopping him
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Why are MPs from an 'institutionally racist' party trying to bring down Sir Roger Scruton?
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The ignorant hounding of Roger Scruton
There are times when you wonder whether our culture is too stupid to survive. The thought has kept occurring over recent days as I have watched the cooked-up furore over the appointment of Sir Roger…
Angela Merkel unterwegs zum Ausgang – unterm Arm ihre EU-Vision
Merkels USP - ihre felsengleiche Unbeweglichkeit - ist ein Hindernis geworden, ein Zeichen der Starre in einem Europa, das nichts mehr braucht als Wandel.
Douglas Murray, Islam and the West
Muslim Immigration, problems and solutions, islam and reform? Europe, our leaders, institutions and media, can and will western civilization survive? And who...
Britisk forfatter: Når vi importerer hele verden, importerer vi også problemer
Europa er på vej imod sin undergang og er selv skyld i miseren på grund af ukontrollabel indvandring. Det mener den britiske forfatter Douglas Murray, som i weekenden var i Danmark for at modtage en pris for sin kamp for ytringsfriheden
Rare Early DOUGLAS MURRAY (2000)
18 years ago. Murray is commenting on this because his first book, Bosie: Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, was about Oscar Wilde's toxic and eventually fata...
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Archive hour. Some clever spark has found a clip of perhaps my first TV appearance. From a documentary on the subject of my first book. Back in 2000.
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Sapphoprisen 2018: Douglas Murray - første del
Trykkefrihedsselskabet havde søndag 4/11 2018 besøg af Douglas Murray, som blev overrakt årets Sapphopris.
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Yesterday, at the Danish Parliament, the Free Press Society honoured me with their freedom of speech award - the Sappho Prize. The opening part of the event is now online here
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Could you spot a tyrant in the making?
There is great concern in the air today about totalitarianism. Few eras of peacefulness can have been so obsessed with their antithesis. In the US, discussion of President Trump – from the comedy shows to the opinion pages – fixates on his alleged...
Should it be illegal to call Mohammed a paedophile?
If we can say Jimmy Savile had inappropriate relations with underage girls, then why can’t the same thing be said about the far-longer-dead Mohammed?