Articles

External links to articles Douglas Murray has written for various publications

The Spectator
14 June 2025

How to ruin a city

If you encourage lawlessness you can be seen to be doing it for all the right reasons

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The New York Post
12 June 2025

Democrats Newsom and Bass have destroyed America’s Golden State

It is only five months since California last burned down. That happened while Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was away on a foreign jaunt, and Gov. Gavin Newsom took the brilliant opportunity to have himself photographed as his state burned.

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The Spectator
7 June 2025

Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain

One rather hopes the government would favour the interests of this country over any others

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The New York Post
5 June 2025

Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs

In recent months, we have had to put up with crazed activists like Taylor Lorenz claiming that Luigi Mangione is a “revolutionary” and a “morally good man” because she finds him “handsome.”

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The Spectator
31 May 2025

The derangement of Harvard

The university knows what it could do to clean up the mess, yet it presents itself as the victim

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The New York Post
29 May 2025

Putin’s playbook is the same a quarter-century later — peace talks are pointless

President Trump, who believed that he was in the middle of a cease-fire negotiation with the Russian president, finally seemed to have lost patience.

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The Spectator
24 May 2025

The death of public discourse

Almost everyone in public life aims to stop any discussion of the issues via obfuscation and misrepresentation

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The New Criterion
23 May 2025

The crime of noticing

On the writings of Renaud Camus: Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface.

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The New York Post
22 May 2025

DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda

This was a completely lying, untrue report from one Tom Fletcher (UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs) that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them.

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The Spectator
17 May 2025

Should you be arrested for reading The Spectator?

The only thing less likely than your call being picked up by Kent Police is that they will do anything about it

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The Telegraph
16 May 2025

America’s liberal media will pay for covering up Biden’s incapacity

The fact that so many ‘serious’ US journalists denied what was obvious to anyone explains why trust in their reporting has collapsed

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The New York Post
15 May 2025

Qatar’s ‘gestures’ to Trump raise suspicions on both ends of the political spectrum

The government of Qatar had a surprise for President Trump on his recent visit to the Middle East.

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