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Douglas Murray

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Charlie Kirk’s death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game

Charlie Kirk’s death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game

Charlie Kirk died doing what he did best — talking with, debating and encouraging his fellow Americans.

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Malcolm Gladwell admits he lied about trans athletes — because telling the truth destroyed careers

Malcolm Gladwell admits he lied about trans athletes — because telling the truth destroyed careers

Could you be persuaded to say something you knew not to be true?

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New Yorkers need only look to Newsom’s California to see how Mamdani can bring ruin to Big Apple

In our own country, there are many politicians who think that US cities in particular can put up with almost anything.

22.08.2025 4

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Alaska meeting was a start, but Putin is still up to his old tricks — and Trump knows it

As the people of Ukraine know, neighborliness is not among Putin’s great qualities.

16.08.2025 60

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Douglas Murray: Mamdani smears Cuomo for allegedly talking to Trump —and yet associates himself with Mahmoud Khalil

Zohran Mamdani is trying to smear rival Andrew Cuomo by associating him with President Donald Trump.

08.08.2025 50

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It’s important to get answers on Hillary Clinton’s RussiaGate plot

“Deflection,” “Distraction” and “Dishonest” are just some of the accusations leveled at President Trump recently for saying he’d like to...

01.08.2025 50

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How many voters really care about Jeffrey Epstein?

If you were on the social media site for the past week you’d have thought that the most important issue to American voters is the dead...

18.07.2025 9

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Douglas Murray: A 50-day deadline is 50 days to kill. Force Putin’s hand now

Who would ever have thought that dealing with the Middle East would look easy?

18.07.2025 10

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Mamdani just latest mayor wannabe who thinks they can police the world

Zohran Mamdani, was in the news again for his foreign-policy positions.

11.07.2025 10

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Douglas Murray: Will NYC fall for the selfie-entitled Zohran Mamdani?

What do you do if something doesn’t work?

04.07.2025 10

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Standing up to bullying, unscientific transgender activist mob

For over a decade now, the “be kind” brigade has been insisting that “trans” should be the next civil rights issue of our age.

27.06.2025 60

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Douglas Murray: President Trump can end the nuclear threat from Iran with one phone call

Last August, under President Joe Biden, federal prosecutors in New York charged Afghan-born Farhad Shakeri in a plot to assassinate Donald Trump.

20.06.2025 50

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Democrats Newsom and Bass have destroyed America’s Golden State

The unrest, car-burnings, Apple-store lootings and more that have overtaken California in the past week can be placed firmly at the door of...

12.06.2025 30

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Douglas Murray: Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs

Why do parts of the left and the media keep asking for sympathy in all the wrong places?

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

Almost 25 years have passed since President George W. Bush famously underestimated Vladimir Putin, and yet the Russian leader is still perplexing his...

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

On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies.

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

The government of Qatar surprised President Trump with the release of the last American-born hostage, Edan Alexander, 21, from Hamas captivity, while...

16.05.2025 20

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Probe the foreign influence behind these terror-loving, anti-Jew college agitators

The US government should order a swift and deep inquiry into the way in which foreign funding is being used to subvert American institutions,...

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Kamala Harris reminds everyone why we didn’t elect her president

The Democrats seem to be lost in the wilderness. But at least their former presidential candidate still has elephants for company.

02.05.2025 30

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Steve Witkoff is fumbling foreign talks and dragging Trump down

In his first 100 days, President Trump has scored a lot of wins at home. But what of abroad? What does the score-card look like in the world outside...

30.04.2025 30

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Trump’s ‘STOP’ is like Biden’s ‘Don’t’ — empty threats to a dictator

President Trump's reaction to one of the biggest missile attacks in the past year was to tell Vladimir Putin: “STOP.” As if Putin is listening.

25.04.2025 50

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Douglas Murray: So-called Israel-Hamas, Ukraine war ‘experts’ spew false info on Joe Rogan’s podcast — There has to be a standard

I’ve been on Joe’s podcast a number of times before and have always enjoyed it.

18.04.2025 50

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How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?

You would have thought that when young women are raped by gangs of armed men that young Americans would not be on the side of the rapists.

04.04.2025 60

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Free speech lessons from jackass Jasmine Crockett and anti-Israel foreign students

Not for the first time there seems to be a confusion about free speech in this country.

28.03.2025 5

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AOC, Walz, Wu — these nuts are the future of the Democrats?!

Desperate times may call for desperate thinking. But these are certainly desperate times for the Democrats.

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Grumpy, Dopey and Woke — Disney’s Snow White disaster

As President Trump once memorably put it, “Everything woke turns to s—t.” That even includes attempts to remake a movie classic like “Snow White.”

14.03.2025 50

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The view from the Ukrainian frontline as world leaders fight over the end to the war

I went to Ukraine because I wanted to see for myself what the situation is. Not the war that people talk about, or the political arguments and...

07.03.2025 30

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Free the Ukrainian children stolen by Russia

Russia’s abuse of the Ukrainian population — and in particular its children — must be front and center of any ceasefire negotiation.

28.02.2025 40

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Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 10 Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril 

This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy.

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Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 9 other Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril 

This has been a dizzying and disorienting week in international diplomacy. One with wild implications for Ukraine, the future of America’s standing...

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Douglas Murray: Trump wants peace and an end to the war in Ukraine – it’s by far his toughest objective

There are two wars that President Trump understandably wants to end.

14.02.2025 20

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Soros-funded Dems suddenly upset by billionaires in government

USAID isn’t representing the United States around the world. It is representing a narrow and now very dated view around the world.

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Douglas Murray: Gaza must reject terror of Hamas for war to end

If you start a war that you then lose, you usually also lose all or most of the territory you started it from. That is not only right, but the only...

31.01.2025 30

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Why the flag rule brings back unity and lowers the campaign to divide us

It is amazing that the State Department's "one flag" directive could be controversial. Even more amazing is how we got here in the first place.

24.01.2025 70

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Douglas Murray: A real ceasefire deal must ensure the destruction of Hamas

“Bring them home” has been the slogan of the hostage families in Israel since October 7, 2023.

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Our leaders praise ‘diversity’ without prioritizing what the public really needs

There is an old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

10.01.2025 30

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Douglas Murray: From college campuses to Afghanistan, we let Islamic terrorism rise again

Let’s all give a big shout-out to the “Globalize the intifada” crowd. You got your way! Congratulations. Hope it feels good. For years, citizens of...

02.01.2025 4

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Spending mess shows Dems will try to stop Trump every step of the way — which is why he must act fast

The worst thing any government can do is to fail to act on its promises. Across the world, there are governments of all stripes suffering for doing...

20.12.2024 4

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Douglas Murray: After Syrian rebels force Assad out, the Iranian regime could be the next one to collapse

The dominos are falling in the Middle East, and the last one may be about to topple. For the past 45 years, the Revolutionary Islamic Government in...

13.12.2024 50

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We should be thankful that the future is in Trump’s hands — and not Harris’

This Thanksgiving we got a reminder of what might-have-been. And what we have been unburdened by. We should be truly grateful.

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A judge accused of sexual harassment rushes an outrageous war crime case against Israel

Should the prime minister of a democratically-elected ally of the United States be allowed to visit Washington? Until now the answer was obvious....

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Will Trump’s win finally break Democrats from the fever they’ve been living in?

Celeb-spotters at the nation’s airports have been disappointed this past week.

15.11.2024 50

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10 things Trump can do to clean up Biden’s messes abroad

The free world is desperately in need of strong leadership. And the un-free world is in desperate need of containment.

08.11.2024 100

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Men, get out and vote and don’t let Harris lie her way into White House

Across the country the difference in early voting between women and men is already glaring.

01.11.2024 100

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Inside the utter devastation where Hamas despot Yahya Sinwar met his demise in Gaza

It is only a few days since evil Hamas mastermind Yahya Sinwar was killed in a building in Tel Sultan, Rafah, deep in the south of Gaza.

21.10.2024 90

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War was never going to end without death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar — may his nihilistic fanaticism die with him

There was cautious celebration in Israel on Thursday as news started to filter through that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed in Gaza. The...

17.10.2024 2

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UN peacekeeping troops failing Israel as Hezbollah creates terror tunnels right under their noses

The world’s eyes are once again focused on the south of Lebanon, as the Israel Defense Forces continue their war against Hezbollah.

14.10.2024 100

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Israel is right, and Biden-Harris must stop holding them back

For the past year since October 7th, the Biden-Harris administration has had only one message to our Israeli ally: “ceasefire.”

10.10.2024 3

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‘Fact check’ has become just another word for censorship

“Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: Something that is now entirely in the eye of the beholder.

04.10.2024 200

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The United Nations is pointless, toothless and morally corrupt

It’s that most wonderful time of the year in New York. I mean of course the time when the United Nations General Assembly is in session.

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