Alex Singleton (23 January 2009). "Civil liberties group calls for resignation of Prof Janet Hartley". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 21 September 2009 . Retrieved 1 May 2010. In 1923 my dad was a young lad. HMS Hood had just steamed into Cape Town Bay on its Empire Cruise. He told me when I was little, that everyone there that day ran down to the water’s edge just to catch a glimpse. He said that all were in awe as to how a nation could design and build such a powerful and beautiful warship and then send it for the view of others. He was hooked and his further experiences did little to diminish his faith in the country he came to love so much. At 17 his family staked everything on sending him to Scotland where he received a world class education in Medicine. When war came, he naturally wanted to fight as he regarded it his war too, but was told he had to join the RAMC. After the war he settled in Manchester and his regard for the English and his delivery from a cruel apartheid state knew no bounds. As the author mentions in one of the more powerful chapters, he was – grateful - every day to the English in particular. When out shopping he would turn things over and buy them if they were made in England or else do without. He wanted, day by day, to become more like the English people he admired so much. a b Kotch, Alex (27 December 2018). "Who funds PragerU's anti-Muslim content?". Sludge. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020 . Retrieved 20 December 2020. Katie Law (19 September 2019). "The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray". London Evening Standard (review) . Retrieved 2 October 2019.

Brendan, Joel (7 June 2018). "PragerU's Influence". SPLC Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 12 December 2020 . Retrieved 26 December 2020. As a result, we get two books in one. A series of celebrations – and defences – of the best of the West sits alongside a catalogue of anti-white discrimination, mostly pursued as a form of white self-flagellation to atone for racial sin. Murray shows how, beginning in the early 2000s and accelerating from 2018, the new antiracism has spread from America and seized many of Britain’s vital and much-loved institutions, from the Church of England to the Royal Academy of Music. This is all very vague stuff. What are these things he wants to celebrate without being embarrassed? I’m not embarrassed about being British, and I agree that there are many things to celebrate in British culture and history. That’s why I’d like to see a government which would fund the arts and culture, rather than making it financially impossible for working class people to aspire to arts degrees. This is not to suggest that Murray’s larger argument is confected or alarmist. His basic contention is that anti-Westernism under the guise of social justice, has become popular enough to be threatening. If enough are convinced that Western history is nothing more than a catalogue of moral outrages and that Western societies remain irredeemably oppressive, tyrannical, bigoted, and all the rest of it, then what sense is there in preserving such a system? Democracy, civil liberties, freedom of conscience, and expression—these are simply myths manufactured by an unjust system to induce compliance. Why not burn it all to the ground and start again? And in the event of a confrontation with a hostile foreign power, why risk anything at all to defend what is indefensible? The war in Ukraine has underscored and italicised these questions posed by Murray. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University asked respondents whether they would “stay and fight” if America was invaded like Ukraine. Fully 52 percent of Democrats, and some 36 percent of Republicans, said they would leave the country instead. Hitchens, Dan (29 June 2021). "Douglas Murray: The anti-woke atheist with a soft spot for Christianity". Christianity . Retrieved 26 July 2021.Murray is gay, [95] but has said that he believes that homosexuality "is an unstable component on which to base an individual identity and a hideously unstable way to try and base any form of group identity". [96] [ bettersourceneeded] In his book The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity, Murray asserts that homophobia has mostly been vanquished. [97] [98]

In 2006, Murray published a defence of neoconservatism– Neoconservatism: Why We Need It–and went on a speaking tour promoting the book in the United States. [26] The publication was subsequently reviewed in the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat by the Iranian author Amir Taheri: "Whether one agrees with him or not Murray has made a valuable contribution to the global battle of ideas." [27] In 2007, he assisted in the writing of Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership by Gen. Dr. Klaus Naumann, Gen. John Shalikashvili, Field Marshal The Lord Inge, Adm. Jacques Lanxade, and Gen. Henk van den Breemen. [28] His book Bloody Sunday was (jointly) awarded the 2011–2012 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. [29] In June 2013, Murray's e-book Islamophilia: a Very Metropolitan Malady was published. [30] McManus, Matt; Robinson, Nathan J. (2 September 2022). "Taking White Supremacist Talking Points Mainstream". Current Affairs. ISSN 2471-2647 . Retrieved 23 February 2023. Oded Yaron (3 February 2017). "Biased Wikipedia editing in Israel raises concerns of political meddling - France 24". Archived from the original on 3 February 2017 . Retrieved 2 June 2022. If you can reasonably dismiss or counter-argue a claim, good for you. But what Mr. Murray manages to do most well, in my humble opinion, is to mount a position that is reasonable enough so that anyone still interested in justice, fairness, true equality among the "races", et cetera, should be able to come away from this book having understood more about some of what has taken place in the last decade or so in this area, on both sides, without throwing a fit – regardless of where you may opine on the subject.It seldom occurs to Murray that the best way to deal with fashionable absurdities is to laugh at them, and to trust to the good sense and conservatism of the wider public. Edmund Burke (absent from this book) put the point with genius in his Reflections on the Revolution in France: The author of The Strange Death of Europe has never been afraid of controversy, and Murray’s latest is no exception. The War on the West is a panoramic survey of a new prejudice that has commandeered western institutions in the name of social justice. It is, Murray argues, out to “demonise the people who still make up the racial majority in the West”. The war on our civilisation turns out, for Murray, to mean a war against whiteness. Now, Christianity has always had some great values, namely that every human is worth the same (but not “is” the same, as in communism). But people seem to forget that Christianity, traditionally, was also quite intolerant of many things. Lux, Julia; Jordan, John David (2019). "Alt-Right 'cultural purity' ideology and mainstream social policy discourse - Towards a political anthropology of 'mainstremeist' ideology". In Elke, Heins; James, Rees (eds.). Social Policy Review 31: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2019. Policy Press. doi: 10.1332/policypress/9781447343981.001.0001. ISBN 978-1-4473-4400-1. S2CID 213019061 . Retrieved 2 January 2021. Media pundit, journalist, and conspiracy entrepreneur Douglas Murray is a prime example of illustrating the influence of an 'organic intellectual'. Murray has written passionately in support of British fascist Tommy Robinson (Murray, 2018) and describes Islam as an "opportunistic infection" (Hasan, 2013) linked to the "strange death of Europe" (Murray, 2017a). Murray's ideas are not only entangled with the far-right (working class or otherwise), but with wider social connections. Liddle, Rod (7 May 2017). "Books: The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray". The Sunday Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 3 September 2019.

The sign has now been taken down. I accept that this does not amount to conclusive proof that the moral panic which swept at hurricane force across Britain as well as America after the murder of George Floyd has blown itself out.If you actually read this book, only to either resort to a course of “ad hominism”, or simply choosing these kinds of inconsequential errors as the most "appalling examples of shoddy research", then you have either failed to recognize, or choose to turn a blind eye to, just how truly astoundingly far off the deep-end and off the rails certain narratives in our culture have become. I think a good exercise in imagination for anyone would be to try and imagine scenarios of public discourse that would have been genuinely more unreasonable than the real-world examples covered in this book, were they to actually happen – and there are many of them, both within the book and not. The subject matter of this book really does deal with some of the limit cases in modernity for insanity, ideological posession, intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy and downright incoherent and irreconcilable world-views. Harkov, Lahav (17 May 2019). "Douglas Murray: Israel has healthier attitude toward nationalism than Europe". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 8 December 2020 . Retrieved 6 January 2021.