In April, 2019, Murray spent weeks urging New Statesman journalist George Eaton and editor Jason Cowley to share the original recording of an interview between Eaton and Roger Scruton, with Murray branding the published interview – which attributed a number of controversial statements to Scruton – as 'journalistic dishonesty'. He announced the winner of the poetry competition as Conservative MP Boris Johnson (former editor of the magazine, former Mayor of London). His book Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and The Saville Inquiry, had been longlisted for the 2012 Orwell Book Prize. This was in reaction to the Böhmermann affair, in which German satirist Jan Böhmermann was prosecuted under the German penal code for such a poem.

In 2016, Murray organised a competition through The Spectator in which entrants were invited to submit offensive poems about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with a top prize of £1,000 donated by a reader.

Murray is an associate editor of The Spectator. Murray being interviewed on the Mark Steyn Show in 2019 Murray has rejected descriptions of his politics as far-right and believes that the term 'far-right' is overused by the political left. French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has said of Murray, 'Whether one agrees with him or not' he is 'one of the most important public intellectuals today.' Critics claim his views and ideology are linked to far-right political ideologies and accuse him of promoting far-right conspiracy theories. Murray's books include Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2005), Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry (2011) about the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017), The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019), and The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason (2022).Īyaan Hirsi Ali and Sohrab Ahmari have praised Murray's work and writing on Islam in Europe. Murray has also written columns for publications such as The Wall Street Journal. He is also an associate editor of the conservative-leaning British political and cultural magazine The Spectator. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018. The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason (2022)ĭouglas Kear Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British intellectual, author, and political commentator.The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019).

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017).

Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry (2011).

Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas (2000).

Bloody Sunday by Douglas Murray