The ‘hate preacher’ hypocrisy
Well this is interesting. I had got used to the standard response to terror. I had thought that when 22…
Finsbury Park attack: We need a consistent response to terror
So it seems that it has happened again. A third terrorist attack in as many months on London’s streets. Once…
When did British voters start rewarding anti-Semitism?
One of the interesting things about ‘diversity’ is that it allows almost anything to happen. Consider Naz Shah, the MP…
The great Sunni-Shia conflict is getting ever closer to the surface
Several people have been killed in a terrorist attack in Iran today, with Isis claiming responsibility. This has potentially huge…
Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism
Last night seven people were killed and at least 48 injured in terror attacks in London Bridge and Borough. This is the…
Blind, bovine hope will get us nowhere – it’s time to change our response to Islamic extremism
Last Sunday, I appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Politics to discuss the aftermath of the Manchester attack. I said what…
Does Andy Burnham regret his opposition to the ‘Prevent’ strategy?
Perhaps we’re now past the moment of shock. Certainly we’ve moved fairly swiftly past the other stages of post-massacre grief.…
Islamists are very clear about what they want – we just aren’t listening
The meeting place of the two worlds could not have been more sharply defined. In Manchester Arena, thousands of young…
The British broadcaster brave enough to discuss Islamic violence
Last night Channel 4 broadcast a deep and seriously important programme. ‘Isis: The Origins of Violence’ was written and presented…
Private Manning’s freedom comes at the expense of US security
Barack Obama’s decision to commute the prison sentence of Private Manning was a final, disgraceful undermining of American interests by…
Terrorism teaches a lesson that some still refuse to learn
Another knife-attack was thwarted yesterday in Westminster. Overnight there were anti-terror raids in Kent and London. These were unconnected, but police…
What does the UN think Saudi Arabia can teach us about gender equality?
In these tricky – not to say dark – times there is one place to which we can always turn…
Turkish democracy has just died; Europe could not have saved it
Well farewell then Turkey. Or at least, farewell the Turkey of Kemal Ataturk. It’s a shame. Ataturk-ism nearly made its…
The BBC’s adaptation of Decline and Fall was near-perfect
A politician once told me ‘You should try to remember to try to encourage us when we get things right…
Berlin, Westminster, now Stockholm. On and on it goes
So this time it is Stockholm. And I am tempted simply to write ‘copy’, ‘paste’ and ‘repeat’ with links to…
In defence of Ken Livingstone
Listen to Douglas Murray and James Forsyth debating Ken Livingstone’s non-expulsion: We never loved each other, Ken Livingstone and I.…
The political dinosaurs aren’t helping matters
As a type of (Platonic) gerontophile, I never expected to say this, but can the dinosaurs not shut up? In recent…
The response to the Westminster attack has been predictably farcical
Since last week’s attack in Westminster, various readers have asked whether my list of ‘standard responses to terrorism’ has held…
Pray for London, for Antwerp, for Nice: this is Europe’s new normal
The hashtag ‘PrayForLondon’ is trending on social media. But so is ‘Antwerp’. Because no sooner were we invited to pray…
The morally illiterate obituaries to Martin McGuinness are just what he would have wanted
Well the obituaries for Martin McGuinness are in. And many are as morally illiterate as the man himself could have…
At least Martin McGuinness made old age. Many others didn’t
So Martin McGuinness has died. Already this is giving vent to the sort of ‘How McGuinness became a man of…
How the Turkey question could swing the Dutch vote
Douglas Murray and Melle Garschagen, UK and Ireland correspondent for NRC, discuss the Dutch election: The Dutch public go to the…
Paul Nuttall and the tricks memory plays on all of us
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Where is the evidence that Donald Trump is an anti-Semite?
Several months ago, after his election victory, I asked for any proof that Donald Trump is – as some of…
The Stop Trump protesters have got their priorities all wrong
There’s almost as much talk about ‘virtue-signalling’ these days as there is about ‘fake news’. But one thing that doesn’t…
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