Is Julian Assange the world’s worst tenant?
Before taking up residence at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Assange lived at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk. This was at…
How three pranksters exposed the insanity of the social sciences
One of the most beautiful things to happen in recent years was ‘the conceptual penis as a social construct.’ This…
What does an illegal migrant have to do to get deported from Sweden?
There is an old paradox/joke about the law of averages. If the likelihood of getting on a plane with a…
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…
Watch: Douglas Murray live with Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris
In July I did two live events in Dublin and London with Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris. At each of…
The Swedish Prime Minister has gambled with his country’s future
The Swedes are going to the polls in one of the most significant bellwether-elections in Europe this year. The international…
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…
What’s the truth about the Manchester bomber’s mosque?
The BBC seems to be getting it from all sides these days. So it should also be praised when it…
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…
Why I won’t appear on the Guardian’s anti-Trump panel
Should I help the Guardian to make money? The question arises because the paper’s emissaries have been badgering me to…
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.…
Meghan Markle and the myth of ‘racist’ Britain
In recent years the British public have been bombarded with allegations about our alleged bigotry. When we failed to follow…
London’s knife crime problem is the talk of the town in New York
New York is as boiling as Naples. Yet walking by Central Park after dinner with friends on Fifth, several couples…
Hectoring Trump on Iran has done Britain and France no favours
Three years ago when the Iran nuclear agreement was signed there was massive political resistance in Washington. Notably – but…
How many fourth-rate academics are first-rate bigots?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote two pieces about a very rum collection of ‘academics’ who had written to The…
The Guardian letter defending Jeremy Corbyn is a sham
Yesterday I wrote about a letter that was in the Guardian on Monday defending Jeremy Corbyn from accusations of anti-Semitism.…
The truth about the ‘senior academics’ defending Corbyn
The Guardian has published a letter headlined ‘Stop Jeremy Corbyn’s trial by media over antisemitism.’ The paper explains: ‘More than…
Why can’t we speak plainly about migrant crime?
On Wednesday, two striking events happened in France. The first was that the President of the Republic led the nation’s…
Why do politicians refuse to tell it how it is on immigration?
One of the presumptions of democracy is that leaders listen to the public. But as poll after poll in Europe…
Britain’s flawed definition of extremism is storing up trouble
Is Allah gay? The eventuality – as Jeeves might say – would seem to be a remote one. If such…
My Rod Liddle nightmare
I do the overnight from Washington in order to be back for Jewish Book Week. Some months ago the organisers…
The BBC’s shameful silence on the Telford sex scandal
Last month, I wrote here about the BBC and ‘grooming gangs’. In particular, I speculated that it was unlikely that having…
What the suspected poisoning of Sergei Skripal tells us about Russia
We live in a strange era when it comes to Russia. On the one hand there are people who seem…
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