Who’ll be the next jihadi-jackpot winner?
Reading the news this week of Jihadi Jack (née Letts, of Oxfordshire) having his UK passport withdrawn, my mind went…
Right from wrong: a guide to the new European politics
Overusing the label ‘far right’ is both wrong and dangerous
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…
Society cannot be run by Twitter mobs
Society cannot be run by Twitter mobs
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…
Notre Dame’s loss is too much to bear
Civilisation only ever hangs by a thread. Today one of those threads seems to have frayed, perhaps snapped. It is…
Matteo Salvini: the man reinventing populist politics
His methods are daring – and wildly popular
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…
Who should we blame for the Christchurch atrocity?
A frequent complaint heard from Muslim communities in recent years has been irritation and anger over any suggestion that Muslims…
The case for prosecuting Bloody Sunday ‘Soldier F’
The case for prosecuting soldier F
The false equivalence between ‘Islamophobia’ and anti-Semitism
I have been travelling in the Middle East for the last few weeks and slightly regret returning to the maelstrom…
The true cost of fake hate crimes
Some years ago I was introduced to one notion of how to tackle dishonest and insincere accusations of racism. It…
The Iolaire was packed with island men who could have sailed her home with ease
Remembering the Iolaire disaster
The ‘Islamophobia’ problem
This is a good time to bury bad news. And sure enough it turns out that a cross-party group of…
Angela Merkel is on her way out – and so is her vision for the EU
Angela Merkel is on the way out, and so is her vision for the European Union
Should it be illegal to insult Mohammed?
Should you be allowed to say that the founder of one of the world’s largest religions was a paedophile? According…
What happens when Steve Bannon is given a platform?
I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the interesting question of whether or not the former chief strategist to…
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…
The real lesson of a Swedish deportation protest
A few weeks ago I wrote in this space about the case of Elin Ersson. She is the young Swedish…
Jeremy Corbyn and the cynical tactics of the left
It is August, so perhaps it is inevitable that parts of the left are getting somewhat over-heated. But it can’t…
Elin Ersson’s ‘citizen-activism’ comes at a heavy price
Last week, a 22-year old Swede called Elin Ersson made headlines around the world for her ‘citizen-activism’. Learning that a…
Does Teen Vogue understand what it means to be ‘literally a communist’?
If anyone wanted an encapsulation of the screwiness of our times just consider the following straight question being asked of…
The true cost of the Stepford Students
It has become abundantly clear in recent years that becoming a Social Justice Warrior (SJW) is bad for your health.…
Europe has a democracy problem
Will Europe’s leaders ever accept that their voters might have a point?
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