Douglas Murray

Douglas Kear Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British author and political commentator. 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. He is also an associate editor of the conservative-leaning British political and cultural magazine The Spectator.Murray has written columns for publications such as Standpoint, National Review and The Wall Street Journal. He is also a regular columnist for UnHerd magazine. Murray is the author of 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) and The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019). Murray has been described as a conservative, a neoconservative and a critic of Islam. His views and ideology have been linked to far-right political ideologies by academic and journalistic sources. He has also been accused of promoting far-right conspiracy theories, and of being Islamophobic, although Murray himself has denied this and has expressed criticism of certain far-right figures and political parties.