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Who ever thought that world-leadership could come from Canada? Not from hopeless bimbo Justin Trudeau, of course, but from Conservative opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre. This week Poilievre made sensible comments about the situation in the Middle East. Not least about the evil colonial regime that has set the region on fire: the Revolutionary Islamic government in Iran. The Canadian media tried to make Poilievre back down. But then Poilievre showed even more leadership. He replied: “I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship that is desperate to avoid being overthrown by its own people to develop nuclear...

As we prepared yesterday afternoon for this conversation, the war that Iran has outsourced to its proxies for the last year finally became a war being waged by Iran itself, as it launched over 100 ballistic missiles towards Israel. Israel’s 9 million citizens huddled into bomb shelters, while missiles rained down on their homes, with a handful making direct impact. As of this recording, two people were injured, and one person was killed—that person was a Palestinian man in Jericho. Just before that onslaught, at least two terrorists opened fire at a train station in Jaffa, Israel, killing at least...

Fact-checking” is like “fake news”: something that is now entirely in the eye of the beholder. At the vice presidential debate this week, the CBS moderators once again tried to show that they were the fair and impartial people in the room Except that — as with the Trump-Harris debate — they only seemed interested in fact-checking in one direction. Against the Republican. On Tuesday night, the subject of Springfield, Ohio, once again came up. And once again, Springfield revealed one of the big problems of this media era. CBS’s Margaret Brennan decided to fact-check something that JD Vance said...

Here's the main point of the video (excerpt): Douglas Murray: It seems to me, as you well know, that Western Civilization is based on the legacy of Athens and Jerusalem. Athens is under great assault always, but it's not actually under existential assault at the moment. What is being attempted by Israel's enemies is the philosophical and cultural equivalent of burning all the libraries of Alexandria. This is one of the underpinnings of Western Civilization, utterly, utterly at risk—not in a sort of metaphorical way where people might use it as a book subtitle, but in a real way. ......

Concerning the current riots in Britain, Political commentator Douglas Murray tells journalist John Anderson, that either the British Army intervenes, or the British people will be left to sort it all out. If that happens, it will be very messy.Also, Britain is now at the place to discuss social issues that should have been debated long ago, because the British soul is now rising up.

First 23 minutes on Israel, Gaza, Campus protests, remainder on Ukraine and Europe. He's been at the front lines in both conflicts.

The truth. It’s that simple. Stick with the truth. Let the truth set you free. When people decide to not focus on what category of people they belong to but rather on what is right and wrong, then the truth has a chance. When people stop labeling themselves and others, then the truth has a chance. Douglas Murray does not focus on political correctness, nor on being a right-winger or a left-winger. He sticks with the facts and does it in a brutally honest way. It so happens to be that what is going on in the Land of Israel...

Are the massive pro-Hamas rallies throughout the Western world a sign that the West is dead? What does Israel represent in the Western psyche? Why are all members of the Reg-Green alliance united in annihilationist hatred for Jews? To discuss these and other pressing existential issues that have arisen since the Oct. 7 slaughter, bestselling author Douglas Murray was Caroline's guest on the Caroline Glick Show today.

There is a war on the West. It is being fought by Western revolutionaries aimed at destroying our civilisation, and our past. It is a war we can and will win. To discuss his book, The War on The West, Douglas Murray joins Steven Edginton in the latest Off Script podcast. Watch the full episode above or listen on your podcast app by searching “Off Script”.

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If you aren't familiar with Douglas Murray, you will be soon. In the wake of the Hamas invasion of Israel which has now led to a prolonged conflict in Gaza, the author and journalist has emerged as a rare voice of clarity. Specifically, Murray has not held back in critiquing the threats to Western civilization that have become entrenched over the years, and while his domain is primarily Europe and the United Kingdom, his warnings extend to the United States. As RedState reported, recent violent protests in New York City resembled something you'd see in a third-world Middle Eastern country,...

VIDEOA very nasty and highly condescending Malcolm Gladwell of the New Yorker insisted on purposely mispronouncing the name of Matt Taibbi even after being corrected as well as calling British author Douglas Murray "Doug" during a debate about the mainstream media. In addition, Gladwell repeatedly played the race card in a desperate attempt to win the debate. In the end, Gladwell is served up with a delicious heaping of Karma as you can see as well as alienating the audience with his antics.

There is a good rule about anti-Semitism. One reason it isn’t better known is because its best expression comes at the mid-point of the 20th century’s towering work of historical fiction: Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. That novel, which takes the reader from the Battle of Stalingrad to the Nazi death camps, traverses the entire dark heart of the 20th century. Yet in the very middle of its 900 pages, the great Russian writer examines the question of anti-Semitism. He says almost everything. Anti-Semitism is something which, as Grossman writes, can be met “in the marketplace and in the...

One of the great secrets of successful institutions is that people are loyal to institutions that are loyal to them. If that pact gets broken at one end then it gets broken at both... This brings me to Donald J Trump. Earlier this week the 45th President sent out one of his trademark insults on his “Truth Social” platform. The target of his ire was not any Democrat or American-hater. It was Kayleigh McEnany, his former White House press secretary. “Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews,” said Trump. “I am 34 points up on...

We are only 20 months away from the next Presidential election, and at this stage, the Republican party should be starting to whittle down its field of contenders. Yet here we are with most of the people expected to run still sitting it out, silent. It’s true that Nikki Haley has started her campaign, as have a few outriders like Vivek Ramaswamy, to whom I wish much luck. But the serving or former officials who should have started their campaigns by now are still sitting it out. Leaving the ground open for Trump to do stunts like his Ohio trip...

When I first moved to the United States I did what any new arrival should do. I read about the country. And the first book I chose was Paul Johnson’s “A History of the American People.” Published 25 years ago, it has a memorable opening line: “The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures.” Just one thing that struck this then new arrival was that 25 years later it would be almost impossible for a book about this great country to begin with such a positive line. Even in the period I have...

Russia is going to lose this war. And Ukraine is going to win it. How can I say that with confidence? Because yesterday I was in the city of Kherson and saw Russia’s defeat with my own eyes. Kherson is part of the south of Ukraine that was invaded and occupied in March this year. In September it was one of the four regions which the Kremlin gave a “vote” to in order to pretend that the regions really wanted to be part of Russia, not Ukraine. These “plebiscites” were meant to validate the occupier. But the whole thing was...

For years the political left has made fools of themselves by sucking up to celebrities. Both in election season and out of it, always it’s the same story. Susan Sarandon, Matt Damon, Eva Longoria and the rest of them all come out to support the Democrat party. Want to weigh up the rights and wrongs of American foreign policy? Then make sure George Clooney is on your side. Want to address income inequality? Well make sure you’ve got Taylor Swift on board. Of course the whole thing is ridiculous. And conservatives have not been shy about pointing out that fact....

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Author and Fox News contributor Douglas Murray says the left is amping up the rhetoric around energy and climate change. Al Gore is back at it again--comparing Uvalde shooting to climate change denial. See video at link for more on this idiocy being promulgated by the Left.