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Hold your wine glass steady: the BBC has news for you. This week it splashed the news that train drivers in the UK are ‘overwhelmingly middle-aged...
St Helena Douglas Murray has narrated this article for you to listen to. In an attempt to escape from the world, I have come with friends to St...
There are two questions that need to be asked of any society: what is it that is going wrong; and what is it that’s going right that should be done...
There are only a few rules to column-writing. One of the strictest is never to waste time bouncing off the effluent of morons. So, for instance, it is...
It is often the small constants in the culture that give the game away. Much of the news today is not about anything significant, but rather a sort of...
What do you do if you can’t solve crime? For the police in this country – as in many other western countries – the answer is obvious. You police...
Regrettably, we must conclude that our culture is being dictated by two-year-olds. I do not literally mean children of two years of age, some of whom...
The few enquiring minds still left occasionally ask me what the most underreported stories of the current Israel-Hamas conflict are. I tend to reply...
Of all the blights on our politics, there are few more tedious than the left-wing campaign group that masquerades behind some poorly constructed...
It is starting to dawn on me that I will soon be the only commoner I know. I am racking my brains trying to think of anyone I have even met in recent...
I’m not sure I recognise this country any more. Characteristics that I grew up with have been eroded to the point of disappearance. What were those...
These days I think often of Doctor Faustus. Not because I am contemplating selling my soul to Mephistopheles, but rather because I take a moderate...
Well that’s that. It now looks certain that Donald J. Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for president this year. At the time of writing,...
Well, better late than never, I suppose. This week the Home Secretary James Cleverly announced that the government has finally decided to ban the...
A lot of people dream of having what is known as ‘screw you’ money. In my observation, this is not simply in order to be able to live in a castle...
Some people may have noticed the happy new guidance released between Christmas and New Year by the National Police Chief’s Council. This guidance to...
I am wary of mentioning General de Gaulle in these pages, if for no other reason than remembering Auberon Waugh many years ago arguing against a...
There’s an old joke about the United Nations having a football team. ‘But who would they play?’ it goes. ‘Why, Israel of course.’ There may...
Does anyone remember ‘Free Tibet’? Way back when, in the olden days of about the 1990s, if you knew nothing much about the world or politics but...
My mind keeps going back almost ten years, to Nigeria in 2014. As some readers will remember, on the night of 14 April, 276 mainly Christian...
There is a stage direction in The Glass Menagerie in which Tennessee Williams describes a tune that will recur through the play. Like a piece of...
A friend of mine was recently doing business with the Qataris. Nothing strange there: a lot of people have in recent years. But of course Qatar is one...
Ever since the atrocities in Israel more than two weeks ago, I have had one main thought. Yes, Israel has its problems. But we also have ours....
There are times when you wonder how history happened. And other times when you realise how it did. The past two weeks have been one such time. The...
The following is an edited excerpt from Douglas Murray’s lecture at the Sheldonian Theatre earlier tonight, in honour of Sir Roger Scruton. It...
I’m not Jewish myself, but most of my best friends are Jews. The reason I mention this is that, all my adult life, I’ve been surrounded by, or...
It was 7 a.m. when the ‘peace rave’ outside of Re’im was reaching its peak. Outside the kibbutz, five miles from the Gaza border, the...
Long-time readers may recall that I take a special interest in the art of corruption. And this week America has thrown up a delicious example....
It is eight years now since The Spectator sent me to Lampedusa to see the boats coming in. That was at the start of the 2015 migrant crisis. The...