All news by author: Douglas Murray

SO far this General Election campaign has been dominated by one story.The utter disintegration of the Conservative Party.Not only has one poll already

HOLD on to your seat, but this weekend’s European Union elections are actually going to be interesting – how often has anyone been able to say tha

“GUILTY on all counts”. That was the verdict of a New York jury this week in Donald Trump’s “hush-money” trial.The charges against him were

“BACK in your day” has just entered the growing list of banned phrases.According to an employment tribunal earlier this week, the expression is

IT sometimes seems that the British police pursue everyone other than criminals.Every week there is some absurd new action by police.Usually a dawn ra

COULD Donald Trump win the US Presidency again? You bet. And strangely enough, every attempt to stop him seems only to help him.Yesterday it was the t

WHAT is war like? “Hell” is the best description.The worst thing human beings can do. But when you are attacked it is a necessary evil.Yet we live

HENRY KISSINGER had many distinctions in his life.Not the least of these was that he remained politically aware and active right up to his death at 10

THE world’s eyes are on the Shifa hospital in Gaza, and yesterday I got the closest any Western journalist has yet got to this focus of the world’

FOR the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country.This past weekend I was inundated with messages from friends abroad asking if it was an

WILL people ever wake up? That’s the question some of us have wondered for decades now.Facts that have been staring us in the face have been ignored

MINISTERS in the UK are apparently starting to get worried.As they should be.They are worried about a drug that has destroyed America’s inner cities

FINALLY a politician here has told the truth about migration.It took a speech in Washington yesterday for the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, to tel

WESTMINSTER was rocked this week by spying claims.First it emerged that two people — one a parliamentary researcher — had been arrested as potenti

LIFE can sometimes come at you awfully fast.In America this week, people learned of a far-left politician who had until recently been committed to “

THE Republican field for the US ­presidential race nomination already looks crowded.Wednesday’s debate had at least two people on it who don’t ne

IF you ever despair about our own poor choice in politicians, consider the good news. At least you’re not in America.At the moment the US is lining

A FULL quarter of a century ago, ­Londoners were given a vote as to whether or not we wanted a mayor.I voted No.Mainly because I want fewer politicia

WE get through politicians at one heck of a rate these days.Hardly a day goes by without someone in frontline politics announcing they are throwing in

JOE BIDEN claims to be running for the Presidency of the United States for a second term next year.His Vice President, Kamala Harris, seems to be stuc

IT IS known in business as a “Ratner moment”. In memory of when in 1991 Gerald Ratner destroyed his family’s jewellery business in just a few s

IT is only three years since the world shut down.And we still don’t know for sure where Covid came from or what can be done to stop it from happenin

IN the 1990s, annual net migration to this country was in the tens of thousands.After Tony Blair came into office in 1997, the figure rocketed into th

A PRETTY cast-iron rule in life is that people are what they accuse you of.Nowhere is this truer than in the modern Left’s obsession with calling ev

ROLL up, roll up for the worst election race in history.No, I don’t mean our next general election, I’m referring to the US Presidential ele