Douglas Murray Archives - Ruth Dudley Edwards

As a ruthless debater, Douglas Murray seems to unerringly hit the nail on the head

by RuthDE | Nov 14, 2023 | 2023, Belfast News Letter, Journalism, November

Even in these terrible times, there are moments of joy from the Middle East. While Israel struggles for survival, and we mourn direct and indirect victims of the Hamas death cult, Douglas Murray’s online devastating put-downs of ignorance, hypocrisy, groupthink and...

Delusional to believe that geography rather than shared memory makes a nation

by RuthDE | Jul 13, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, July

A new book examines the incompatibility, between nationalists and unionists, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 13 July 2020 Trump is taking on the historical revisionists – that was the Spectator headline on an article by my friend Douglas Murray, who was...

The woke don’t joke, but that shouldn’t stop us laughing at them at every opportunity

by RuthDE | Jan 27, 2020 | 2020, Belfast Telegraph, January, Journalism

Question Time row between Laurence Fox and Rachel Boyle shows how humourless the intolerant can be, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 27 January 2020 The controversy over the clash on the BBC’s Question Time between the actor Laurence Fox and the academic...

Uncomfortable truths cannot simply be wished away by totalitarian intolerance

by RuthDE | Oct 7, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, October

‘Heresy-hunting’ now at a level where contrary views can see you being ostracised, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 7 September 2019 I’ve just read The Madness Of Crowds, a wonderful book by my intrepid friend Douglas Murray about what is behind the hysterical...

Isn’t it about time we paid tribute to the contrarians among us who won’t be cowed?

by RuthDE | Jul 1, 2019 | 2019, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism, July

It takes bravery to put your head above the parapet and challenge convention, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 1 July 2019 I went last week to the award of the Contrarian Prize in London. The dictionary definition of a contrarian is “a person who opposes or...

Blame adults, not the young, for those tiresome snowflakes

by RuthDE | Oct 22, 2018 | 2018, Belfast Telegraph, Journalism

We should be helping young victims of overprotective parents embrace debate, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 October 2018 I’m struggling with my latest satirical crime novel, Death of a Snowflake, which is set on a campus dominated by virtue-signalling,...

As a ruthless debater, Douglas Murray seems to unerringly hit the nail on the head

Delusional to believe that geography rather than shared memory makes a nation

The woke don’t joke, but that shouldn’t stop us laughing at them at every opportunity

Uncomfortable truths cannot simply be wished away by totalitarian intolerance

Isn’t it about time we paid tribute to the contrarians among us who won’t be cowed?

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