Douglas Murray | |
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Born | Douglas Kear Murray 16 July 1979 Hammersmith, London, England |
Occupation | Associate director of the Henry Jackson Society Former director of the Centre for Social Cohesion |
Nationality | British |
Education |
St Benedict's School Eton College |
Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
Period | 2000–present |
Subject | Politics, culture, history |
Notable works |
Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas (2000) Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2005) Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry (2011) |
Website | |
@DouglasKMurray Douglas Murray |
Douglas Kear Murray (born 17 July 1979) is a British author, journalist, and political commentator. He is the founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion and is currently the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society and associate editor of The Spectator.
Murray appears regularly in the British broadcast media, commenting on issues from a neoconservative standpoint, and he is often critical of Islam. He writes for a number of publications, including Standpoint, The Wall Street Journal and The Spectator. He is the author of Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2005) and Bloody Sunday: Truths, Lies and the Saville Inquiry (2011).
Murray was born and raised in Hammersmith, London to an English mother, a civil servant, and Scottish Gàidhlig-speaking father, a school teacher, along with his brother. He would go to his father's homeland, the Isle of Lewis, every summer as a boy, where he enjoyed fishing. His paternal grandfather was the schoolmaster of Tong School, where Mary Anne MacLeod, mother of President Trump, was educated.