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…
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…
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…
Is Boris wrong to claim Islam set the Muslim world back?
I do love the Guardian. As the years go by almost no publication continues to give me such constant amusement.…
Billy Connolly and the death of free speech
I hope readers will forgive me for returning to a subject I addressed here recently. It was a reflection on the…
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…
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 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…
Matteo Salvini: the man reinventing populist politics
While Britain continues to try to struggle its way out of the EU, perhaps it is wise to consider what…
Is now a good time to talk about Jews and money?
Is now a good time to talk about Jews and money? The Jewish Museum in London thinks so, and perhaps…
Douglas Murray: will we have a country left after Brexit?
It isn’t easy getting around the Gulf these days. The blockade on Qatar means no direct flights from most of…
The case for prosecuting Bloody Sunday ‘Soldier F’
It is more than 15 years since the Bloody Sunday soldiers last appeared in public. For months I sat in…
The Iolaire was packed with island men who could have sailed her home with ease
The centenaries of the Great War came to a close in November with commemorations of the 1918 Armistice. But one…
Angela Merkel is on her way out – and so is her vision for the EU
Whatever anyone’s views on the enterprise, there was one question always begging to be asked of the European Union: ‘What…
Douglas Murray: I can’t think of a time when more people have lost their minds
Whenever I visit a country I try to pitch high and meet the president or prime minister. In Australia this…
Europe has a democracy problem
This week the EU revealed its true nature. Rather than hand power to a Eurosceptic, the Italian President Sergio Mattarella…
The perils of speaking in public
I spend my life moving. Over recent years it was research. Now it’s caused by that research. But I have…
California is the unexpected antidote to censorious liberalism
If I needed a safe space, I would nominate California. Against most odds this seedbed of censorious liberalism has thrown…
The curious star appeal of Jordan Peterson
Last Sunday night a capacity crowd of mainly young people packed into the Emmanuel Centre in London. Those who couldn’t…
The Iranian rebellion the world wants to ignore
If there is one lesson the world should have learned from Iran’s ‘Green Revolution’ of 2009 and the so-called Arab…
Rolling tanks, plastic flowers and madness on parade: A visit to North Korea
As Kim Jong-un might blow up the world next year, if not this, and people are forever trying to work…
The consequence of this new sexual counter-revolution? No sex at all
We are in the middle of a profound shift in our attitude towards sex. A sexual counter-revolution, if you will.…
Poor conduct
Last weekend Daniel Barenboim brought the Staatskapelle Berlin to perform at the BBC Proms for a cycle of Elgar’s symphonies.…
The known wolf
The meeting place of the two worlds could not have been more sharply defined. In Manchester Arena, thousands of young…
Songs of the blood and the sword
Douglas Murray 28 October 2017 9:00 am
Jihadi Culture might sound like a joke title for a book, like ‘Great Belgians’ or ‘Canadian excitements’. But in this…