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Douglas Murray

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Douglas Murray: Unlike past presidents, Trump kept and delivered his promise to eliminate our enemies

Perhaps we forgot what it’s like when politicians act on their promises.

05.03.2026 4

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The real affordability crisis is in the cities where Democrats rule

The Marist poll reveals that one in three New Yorkers are planning to leave the State in the next five years.

27.02.2026 10

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How Apple News and other tech giants change the narrative for Democrats

The New York Post revealed this week that Apple News has set up a sneaky little system of its own to make sure that its customers get indoctrinated in...

20.02.2026 450

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Douglas Murray: Following the law is the only sensible way to address the illegal immigration mess

If you think way back to 2023 you may remember that this city was suffering a crisis of illegal immigration.

13.02.2026 700

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Douglas Murray: Kamala Harris returning to the political landscape can be best described by Gen Z as ‘cringe’

I admit, I miss Kamala Harris, as life in this country hasn't been the same without her presence.

06.02.2026 5

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Stop thinking like it’s 2003 — toppling Iran’s mullahs does not risk mistakes of Iraq War

There are a lot of differences between 2003 and today.

30.01.2026 30

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Trump’s new Board of Peace is necessary because the UN has failed again and again

The Board of Peace was started in order to try to secure the situation in Gaza. And if the President succeeds in that then he deserves every accolade....

23.01.2026 30

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Douglas Murray: Trump has a chance to end Khamenei’s reign of terror in Iran

For 46 years, the Revolutionary Islamic Government has tortured the people of Iran.

16.01.2026 50

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Trump’s right about boosting US military spending — but he should threaten our enemies, not our allies

There have been times in the past couple of decades when people have wondered what US defense spending is for.

09.01.2026 20

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Douglas Murray: Trump cleaned up crime in DC – and taught everyone a lesson in public safety

Ever since President Trump decided to clean up Washington, DC, crime in the city has gone down in drastic numbers.

19.12.2025 80

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Douglas Murray: Zohran Mamdani appointing radical transition team has NYC in for a rude awakening

Well, New York — we’re going to be in for quite a ride.

12.12.2025 70

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Douglas Murray: Europe must step up it’s own defense spending and deter Putin, Russia from any more invasions

There have always been a lot of jokes about the European military.

05.12.2025 10

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Afghan terror and Somalia fraud shows why Trump is right on migrants

You have to be careful with a country.

28.11.2025 3

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We shouldn’t reward Russia with a ‘peace’ that leaves Ukraine carved up and helpless

Despite President Trump’s calls for the fighting to stop, Russia this week again stepped up its war against Ukraine.

21.11.2025 6

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Can Jack Schlossberg take internet trolling all the way to Congress?

You’d have thought that a scion of the Kennedy dynasty wouldn’t need much of a leg-up in life. But the New York Times just ran a huge puff-piece...

14.11.2025 7

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Conspiracy kook Tucker Carlson is no conservative and no friend to Charlie Kirk and JD Vance 

This past week Tucker Carlson proved again what an appalling person he has become. He invited onto his show an avowed Holocaust denier and racist,...

04.11.2025 5

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Turning Point USA’s extraordinary crowd with JD Vance shows how young people are hungry for purpose

There was a time when conservative kids weren’t cool.

31.10.2025 9

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NYC mayoral debate exposed Zohran Mamdani as man who has never dealt with reality

Finally, Zohran Mamdani had to face the difficult questions.

23.10.2025 10

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After the Gaza cease-fire, what will these faux revolutionaries protest? Some ideas

Now that President Trump has managed to get a cease-fire in Gaza, what are all those wannabe revolutionaries here at home going to do now?

17.10.2025 7

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Trump’s historic peace deal brings joy and relief — but it comes with a bitterly high cost

That deal was a bitter one for Israelis to swallow. But they did swallow it — in order to get their young man home.

09.10.2025 6

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Conservatives, be careful about wishing for a Zohran Mamdani win

Be careful what you wish for.

03.10.2025 6

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Democrats are driving young men to kill ‘Nazis’ who aren’t Nazis

If words do have an effect, then why are so many people in positions of power so incredibly careless with the words they use?

26.09.2025 7

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Violent, lawless Antifa forces deserve to be labeled terrorists

Sometimes good can come out of tragedy. So it seems that in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk this country might finally come to terms...

19.09.2025 5

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Charlie Kirk’s death must remind us, and those with despicable responses to it, that life is not a computer game

Charlie Kirk died doing what he did best — talking with, debating and encouraging his fellow Americans.

12.09.2025 9

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Malcolm Gladwell admits he lied about trans athletes — because telling the truth destroyed careers

Could you be persuaded to say something you knew not to be true?

05.09.2025 8

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New Yorkers need only look to Newsom’s California to see how Mamdani can bring ruin to Big Apple

In our own country, there are many politicians who think that US cities in particular can put up with almost anything.

22.08.2025 6

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Alaska meeting was a start, but Putin is still up to his old tricks — and Trump knows it

As the people of Ukraine know, neighborliness is not among Putin’s great qualities.

16.08.2025 7

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Douglas Murray: Mamdani smears Cuomo for allegedly talking to Trump —and yet associates himself with Mahmoud Khalil

Zohran Mamdani is trying to smear rival Andrew Cuomo by associating him with President Donald Trump.

08.08.2025 10

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It’s important to get answers on Hillary Clinton’s RussiaGate plot

“Deflection,” “Distraction” and “Dishonest” are just some of the accusations leveled at President Trump recently for saying he’d like to...

01.08.2025 7

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How many voters really care about Jeffrey Epstein?

If you were on the social media site for the past week you’d have thought that the most important issue to American voters is the dead...

18.07.2025 10

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Douglas Murray: A 50-day deadline is 50 days to kill. Force Putin’s hand now

Who would ever have thought that dealing with the Middle East would look easy?

18.07.2025 8

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Mamdani just latest mayor wannabe who thinks they can police the world

Zohran Mamdani, was in the news again for his foreign-policy positions.

11.07.2025 6

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Douglas Murray: Will NYC fall for the selfie-entitled Zohran Mamdani?

What do you do if something doesn’t work?

04.07.2025 6

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Standing up to bullying, unscientific transgender activist mob

For over a decade now, the “be kind” brigade has been insisting that “trans” should be the next civil rights issue of our age.

27.06.2025 10

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

Last August, under President Joe Biden, federal prosecutors in New York charged Afghan-born Farhad Shakeri in a plot to assassinate Donald Trump.

20.06.2025 4

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Democrats Newsom and Bass have destroyed America’s Golden State

The unrest, car-burnings, Apple-store lootings and more that have overtaken California in the past week can be placed firmly at the door of...

12.06.2025 7

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Douglas Murray: Liberals turn killers, racists, and haters into martyrs

Why do parts of the left and the media keep asking for sympathy in all the wrong places?

06.06.2025 5

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Douglas Murray: Putin’s playbook is the same a quarter-century later — peace talks are pointless

Almost 25 years have passed since President George W. Bush famously underestimated Vladimir Putin, and yet the Russian leader is still perplexing his...

30.05.2025 8

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Douglas Murray: DC killings show how Americans are being incited to kill Jews by anti-Israel propaganda

On Wednesday afternoon, Yaron Lischinsky was trying, as always, to fight lies.

23.05.2025 6

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Douglas Murray: Qatar’s ‘gestures’ to Trump raise suspicions on both ends of the political spectrum

The government of Qatar surprised President Trump with the release of the last American-born hostage, Edan Alexander, 21, from Hamas captivity, while...

16.05.2025 7

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Probe the foreign influence behind these terror-loving, anti-Jew college agitators

The US government should order a swift and deep inquiry into the way in which foreign funding is being used to subvert American institutions,...

09.05.2025 10

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Kamala Harris reminds everyone why we didn’t elect her president

The Democrats seem to be lost in the wilderness. But at least their former presidential candidate still has elephants for company.

02.05.2025 4

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Steve Witkoff is fumbling foreign talks and dragging Trump down

In his first 100 days, President Trump has scored a lot of wins at home. But what of abroad? What does the score-card look like in the world outside...

30.04.2025 6

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Trump’s ‘STOP’ is like Biden’s ‘Don’t’ — empty threats to a dictator

President Trump's reaction to one of the biggest missile attacks in the past year was to tell Vladimir Putin: “STOP.” As if Putin is listening.

25.04.2025 7

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Douglas Murray: So-called Israel-Hamas, Ukraine war ‘experts’ spew false info on Joe Rogan’s podcast — There has to be a standard

I’ve been on Joe’s podcast a number of times before and have always enjoyed it.

18.04.2025 20

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How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?

You would have thought that when young women are raped by gangs of armed men that young Americans would not be on the side of the rapists.

04.04.2025 7

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Free speech lessons from jackass Jasmine Crockett and anti-Israel foreign students

Not for the first time there seems to be a confusion about free speech in this country.

28.03.2025 5

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AOC, Walz, Wu — these nuts are the future of the Democrats?!

Desperate times may call for desperate thinking. But these are certainly desperate times for the Democrats.

21.03.2025 8

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Grumpy, Dopey and Woke — Disney’s Snow White disaster

As President Trump once memorably put it, “Everything woke turns to s—t.” That even includes attempts to remake a movie classic like “Snow White.”

14.03.2025 10

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The view from the Ukrainian frontline as world leaders fight over the end to the war

I went to Ukraine because I wanted to see for myself what the situation is. Not the war that people talk about, or the political arguments and...

07.03.2025 6

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