Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray is Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society and an author, most recently of Bloody Sunday: Truth, lies and the Saville Inquiry.

If only Harry took after his grandfather

14 January 2023 9:00 am

Do you remember the Duke of Edinburgh awards? Some of you may even have one somewhere. An award for map-reading,…

How to get nothing done

7 January 2023 9:00 am

I sometimes wonder whether our government makes any decisions at all. In fact I’m trying to think of any area…

How to save the BBC

17 December 2022 9:00 am

Towards the end of his life the art critic Hilton Kramer was overheard leaving a cinema with his wife. One…

Britain doesn’t need reinventing

10 December 2022 9:00 am

What is the most hubristic line ever written? Against some very stiff competition I would say it is that famous…

The new vandals: how museums turned on their own collections

3 December 2022 9:00 am

The self-flagellation of British museums

Fifa has scored a spectacular own goal

26 November 2022 9:00 am

Unlike some fair-weather fans I maintain a fairly constant interest in the workings of Fifa. Not because I especially care…

The delicious fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

19 November 2022 9:00 am

Dame Edna Everage says one of life’s most precious gifts is the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.…

The weaponisation of ‘bullying’

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Bullying appears to be suffering from inflation, like everything else. Certainly as an art form it seems to be in…

The negligence of ‘not in my lifetime’

5 November 2022 9:00 am

It is sometimes said, correctly, that conservatism is more an attitude than an ideology. And for me there have always…

The West’s uncivilised euthanasia policy

29 October 2022 9:00 am

So much is happening on the surface at the moment that it can be difficult to notice certain undercurrents. Since…

How to protest the protestors

22 October 2022 9:00 am

These are bleak times in our land, and we must take our pleasures where we can. Personally I have been…

Is what Conor Burns did really so appalling?

15 October 2022 9:00 am

There are times when I feel like certain rakes must have done when they realised that the Regency period was suddenly…

Things can always get worse

8 October 2022 9:00 am

As I was saying, way back in July, it is hard to love the Conservative party. Every time it tries…

I’m in trouble with the police

1 October 2022 9:00 am

There is almost nothing I like more than a running battle. As my friend Julie Burchill also says, when a…

Leicester and the downside with diversity

24 September 2022 9:00 am

As I have said many times in recent years, if you import the world’s people you import the world’s problems.…

A hereditary monarchy is good for politics

17 September 2022 9:00 am

I suppose it was inevitable that with the death of HM the Queen certain floodgates would open. During her reign…

Who cares about Liz Truss's 'diverse' cabinet?

10 September 2022 9:00 am

‘Great offices of state set to contain no white men’ was the way one national newspaper reported the formation of…

Green parties are facing a reality check

3 September 2022 9:00 am

How pleasant it is to watch an idea fall apart. Especially when it is an idea held by people you…

Salman Rushdie and a question of power

27 August 2022 9:00 am

Whenever a terrorist attack occurs, like the recent attempted assassination of Salman Rushdie, our society falls into the usual platitudes.…

A strange kind of recession

13 August 2022 9:00 am

It’s possible that I owe Joe Biden some sort of an apology, however mealy-mouthed it might be. Last week I…

Biden’s victories look a lot like defeats

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Joe Biden’s week did not get off to a good start. When running for office in 2020 he repeatedly boasted…

Why should straight white men 'pass the power'?

30 July 2022 9:00 am

If you happened to be walking through Southwark this week you might have been accosted by a big public sign.…

The ruthless inefficiency of the Tory party

23 July 2022 9:00 am

It is hard to love the Conservative party. But one reason it has at least always commanded a certain amount…

Shouldn't we feel sorry for Hunter Biden?

16 July 2022 9:00 am

Scandal is such a wonderful driver of human emotions. Just think of the number of things you get to feel…

Who’ll stop the art attackers?

9 July 2022 9:00 am

One problem of being mugged, I am told, is not just the event itself but the dreams of violence that…