Douglas Murray

London, New York

Author, Political Commentator, and Associate Editor at The Spectator

#1 bestselling author of 8 books including 'On Democracies and Death Cults'. @Spectator. Columnist @NYPost. Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst

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Articles

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

1 week ago | nypost.com | Douglas Murray

Would you mind if someone tried to kill you? For both Donald Trump and for the state of Israel the answer is “Yes.”Last August, under President Joe Biden, federal prosecutors in New York charged Afghan-born Farhad Shakeri in a plot to assassinate Trump. Shakeri is currently believed to be in Iran. Shakeri was tasked with killing Trump in the US before or after last year’s election. President Trump will have to live with such threats from the Iranian regime for the rest of his life.
What else could Israel do?

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Douglas Murray

Over the past few days British readers have been able to enjoy a number of hot takes on the situation in the Middle East. First, there have been all the politicians, such as the Scottish First Minister John Swinney, who have called for our government to step in and ‘de-escalate’ the conflict between Israel and Iran.
What else could Israel do?

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Douglas Murray

Over the past few days British readers have been able to enjoy a number of hot takes on the situation in the Middle East. First, there have been all the politicians, such as the Scottish First Minister John Swinney, who have called for our government to step in and ‘de-escalate’ the conflict between Israel and Iran.
The Critic’s Notebook

1 week ago | newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |Robert Erickson |Frank Johnson |Moira Hodgson

Nonfiction:Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories, by David Crystal (Bodleian Library Publishing, June 20): What’s your favorite boc? Originally, the Old English word that has since become our “book” referred to any written text, including legal documents, catalogues, or charters. And rather than a library, English speakers once spoke of a boc-hord, or a “book hoard,” which may be the more accurate term for the less organized among us.
Democrats Newsom and Bass have destroyed America's Golden State

2 weeks ago | nypost.com | Douglas Murray

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 Governor Newsom took the brilliant opportunity to have himself photographed as his state burned. You’d have thought that the complete destruction of the Palisades and the loss of billions of dollars of property in the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles’s history would have focused minds.
How to ruin a city

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Douglas Murray

Why would you choose to make a city crappy? Plenty of cities don’t have much going for them. But when they do, it takes a certain amount of skill to actively wreck them. Take London, for instance. Anyone in charge of our capital needed only to maintain it, if not improve it. Yet in almost a decade as mayor, Sadiq Khan has overseen a decline which is obvious to any resident or visitor. That first sign of rot – the tolerance of minor crime – is everywhere. It might be graffiti on the Tube.
“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski

3 weeks ago | newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski |Robert Erickson |Douglas Murray |Emma Richards

Recent stories of note: “Land of Dopes & Tories” Piers Brendon, Literary Review Arthur Christopher Benson was the master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1915 to 1925 and is known for penning the lyrics of “Land of Hope and Glory,” as well as for light, belletristic essays aimed toward, in his words, “a feminine tea-party kind of an audience.” Still, he aspired to something greater—an aspiration that, as Piers Brendon writes in Literary Review, Benson has posthumously achieved with two...
Douglas Murray: Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs

3 weeks ago | nypost.com | Douglas Murray

Why do parts of the left and the media keep asking for sympathy in all the wrong places? 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.”Unfortunately he is also on trial for gunning down a father of two in cold blood on Sixth Avenue. In the eyes of many people that still counts against a man.
Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Douglas Murray

Five years ago, the man who is now Lord Hermer gave an interview to the Times. The then QC was asked how he’d want to be remembered. The answer he gave was curious.
Richard Hermer’s campaign against Britain

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Douglas Murray

Five years ago, the man who is now Lord Hermer gave an interview to the Times. The then QC was asked how he’d want to be remembered. The answer he gave was curious.