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Douglas Murray

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Left alone / Britain is losing friends – and making enemies

Left alone /					 													 						Britain is losing friends – and making enemies
23.01.2025 7

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Left alone / Britain is losing friends – and making enemies

Left alone /					 													 						Britain is losing friends – and making enemies
23.01.2025 10

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Burning issue / The day DEI went up in smoke

Burning issue /					 													 						The day DEI went up in smoke
16.01.2025 30

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What real justice would look like for grooming gang victims

09.01.2025 40

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Most-read 2024: The unfashionable truth about the riots

28.12.2024 5

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My rules for church readings

It is that time of year when people in churches across the land have to face the difficult question of how to read scripture out loud. I count...

25.12.2024 3

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Scriptures / My rules for church readings

It is that time of year when people in churches across the land have to face the difficult question of how to read scripture out loud. I count...

12.12.2024 3

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Beware the Qataris

06.12.2024 10

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Property / How to get on the housing ladder

28.11.2024 3

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Britain’s failing statecraft

23.11.2024 5

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Welcome to life on Planet Elon

On 13 July this year, an assassin’s bullet grazed the ear of Donald Trump as he turned his head on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania. The whole world...

14.11.2024 20

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Race relations / The problem with Dawn Butler

We hear a lot about white supremacy these days. But for some reason we rarely hear about black supremacy. I wonder why? There’s a lot more of it...

07.11.2024 3

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Don’t speak / The strange silence around the Southport attacks

31.10.2024 20

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Karim Khan / The ICC’s rogue prosecutor

25.10.2024 5

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Make Musk Great Again / The rise of anti-Elonism

17.10.2024 6

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Labour pains / Does Keir Starmer have a soul?

10.10.2024 10

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Middle East / Israel was right to ignore the West

There are sources in the Jewish tradition that warn against exultation at the downfall of one’s enemies. But I am not Jewish, and so I have...

04.10.2024 50

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Israel / Sky News has lost its way

Occasionally I am told that I go too hard on the BBC. It is an understandable gripe which I sometimes hear from disgruntled journos from...

26.09.2024 20

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Speaking the truth / Are the Tories brave enough to be conservative?

The Conservative party is out of power – and that’s not easy if you’ve been in power for more than a decade. Even after a short spell in...

19.09.2024 10

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Broad church / The C of E’s raving madness

In February there was a commotion at Canterbury Cathedral. Or, to be more precise, there was a silent commotion. The cause was a ‘silent disco’...

12.09.2024 4

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Israel / The joy of our deluded politicians

There are a number of joys in life that do not get enough attention. One is the sheer, unadulterated pleasure that can be gained from watching a...

05.09.2024 10

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Double standards / Labour’s age of miracles

I am not yet eligible for the winter fuel allowance. Nor am I especially in favour of it, regarding it as one of those times when the government...

30.08.2024 10

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Milestones / Shattering the myth of the ‘glass ceiling’

What a thrilling number of glass ceilings have been broken this century – with more still to come, apparently. In 2008 America elected its first...

22.08.2024 10

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Free speech / The persecution of ‘the plebs’

Not so long ago we went to politicians for politics and comedians for comedy. Today, like many others, I watch politicians for amusement and listen...

15.08.2024 2

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Unemployment / The unfashionable truth about the riots

As the days slip by, the likelihood that anything will be learned from the recent rioting looks ever more remote. And with that suspicion comes the...

08.08.2024 80

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Olympics / Will we always have Paris?

There are times when you might be fooled into believing all is well. I had a moment of such weakness the other day when I saw our new Prime...

25.07.2024 10

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Special relationship / David Lammy’s Trump problem

There’s no shortage of people who have spent recent years comparing Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. Among other places, the comparison has been...

18.07.2024 10

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