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 He is currently the associate director of the [[Henry Jackson Society]], which merged with his former employer, the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] a think tank set up in 2007 by [[Civitas]] 'following widespread and longstanding concern about the diminishing sense of community in Britain'.<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/action.php About Us] (Accessed: 6 September 2007)</ref>. Murray has also contributed to the [[Social Affairs Unit]].
-That same year he was ranked 79th in the ''Telegraph''’s 'The Right's 100 Most Influential' list, according to which he was 'gaining a ubiquitous media presence and is an eloquent advocate of all things American and a strong supporter of taking military action against Iraq'. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/nosplit/nlist75-100.xml The Right's 100 Most Influential: 100-76] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3fsynNRIFg|450|right|''Douglas Murray at the One Law for All conference''}}
+That same year he was ranked 79th in the ''Telegraph''’s 'The Right's 100 Most Influential' list, according to which he was 'gaining a ubiquitous media presence and is an eloquent advocate of all things American and a strong supporter of taking military action against Iraq'. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/nosplit/nlist75-100.xml The Right's 100 Most Influential: 100-76] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
 ==Early career==

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-[[File:Douglas Murray .png|200px|thumb|right|Douglas Murray]] '''Douglas Murray''' (full name Douglas Kear Murray) (born 16 July 1979) was educated at [[Magdalen College]], Oxford.<ref>[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000676.php The Social Affairs Unit - Publications List: Neoconservatism: Why We Need It], accessed 20 March 2008. </ref>
+[[File:Douglas Murray .png|300px|thumb|right|Douglas Murray]] '''Douglas Murray''' (full name Douglas Kear Murray) (born 16 July 1979) was educated at [[Magdalen College]], Oxford.<ref>[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000676.php The Social Affairs Unit - Publications List: Neoconservatism: Why We Need It], accessed 20 March 2008. </ref>
 He is currently the associate director of the [[Henry Jackson Society]], which merged with his former employer, the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] a think tank set up in 2007 by [[Civitas]] 'following widespread and longstanding concern about the diminishing sense of community in Britain'.<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/action.php About Us] (Accessed: 6 September 2007)</ref>. Murray has also contributed to the [[Social Affairs Unit]].
-That same year he was ranked 79th in the ''Telegraph''’s 'The Right's 100 Most Influential' list, according to which he was 'gaining a ubiquitous media presence and is an eloquent advocate of all things American and a strong supporter of taking military action against Iraq'. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/nosplit/nlist75-100.xml The Right's 100 Most Influential: 100-76] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
+That same year he was ranked 79th in the ''Telegraph''’s 'The Right's 100 Most Influential' list, according to which he was 'gaining a ubiquitous media presence and is an eloquent advocate of all things American and a strong supporter of taking military action against Iraq'. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/nosplit/nlist75-100.xml The Right's 100 Most Influential: 100-76] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3fsynNRIFg|450|right|''Douglas Murray at the One Law for All conference''}}
 ==Early career==
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 ==openDemocracy==
-Murray was for some years a regular contributor to the [[openDemocracy]] website. In a September 2002 piece, he  criticised [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament|CND]] and the [[Stop the War Coalition]] for organising an anti-war march together with the [[Muslim Association of Britain]]. <ref>[http://www.opendemocracy.net/node/666 An Unholy Alliance], by Douglas Murray, [[openDemocracy]], 22 October 2002.</ref>
+Murray was for some years a regular contributor to the [[openDemocracy]] website. In a September 2002 piece, he criticised [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament|CND]] and the [[Stop the War Coalition]] for organising an anti-war march together with the [[Muslim Association of Britain]]. <ref>[http://www.opendemocracy.net/node/666 An Unholy Alliance], by Douglas Murray, [[openDemocracy]], 22 October 2002.</ref>
 In February 2003, he delivered a diatribe against the many first-time demonstrators who had joined the anti-war marches.

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+[[File:Douglas Murray .png|200px|thumb|right|Douglas Murray]] '''Douglas Murray''' (full name Douglas Kear Murray) (born 16 July 1979) was educated at [[Magdalen College]], Oxford.<ref>[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000676.php The Social Affairs Unit - Publications List: Neoconservatism: Why We Need It], accessed 20 March 2008. </ref>
 He is currently the associate director of the [[Henry Jackson Society]], which merged with his former employer, the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] a think tank set up in 2007 by [[Civitas]] 'following widespread and longstanding concern about the diminishing sense of community in Britain'.<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/action.php About Us] (Accessed: 6 September 2007)</ref>. Murray has also contributed to the [[Social Affairs Unit]].
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 Murray 'assisted in the writing process' for the 2007 pamphlet [[Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership]], which proposed a new UN/EU/NATO directorate to 'co-ordinate all co-operation in the transatlantic sphere of interest.'<ref>[http://www.csis.org/media/csis/events/080110_grand_strategy.pdf Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership], [[Noaber Foundation]], 2007 </ref>
-Written by five former NATO generals, Gen. Dr. [[Klaus Naumann]], Gen. [[John Shalikashvili]], Field Marshal The [[Lord Inge]], Adm. [[Jacques Lanxade]], Gen. [[Henk van den Breemen]] and Benjamin Bilski<ref>Naumann and Lord Inge are members of the International Advisory Board of [[World Security Network]] who also promote [http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/documents/3eproefGrandStrat(b).pdf the document].  See also: [http://www.globalsecuritynews.com/showArticle3.cfm?article_id=15391 NATO: New "Grand Strategy" Proposed by Former Top Military Leaders], Dieter Farwick, 16 January 2008 (this report also appears on the 2007 [http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1606 International Analyst Network] site, with both ramping up the terrorist threat).  The Report was funded by the Dutch [[Noaber Foundation]], Van den Breemen is an advisor to the Noaber Foundation as is Douglas Murray.  Noaber's  founder, J.G.P. Baan is also connected to the World Security Network as one of their [http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/network/dsp_author3.cfm Authors].</ref>, the paper clearly owed much to neocon thinking and Murray’s distinctive philosophy:
+Written by five former NATO generals, Gen. Dr. [[Klaus Naumann]], Gen. [[John Shalikashvili]], Field Marshal The [[Lord Inge]], Adm. [[Jacques Lanxade]], Gen. [[Henk van den Breemen]] and Benjamin Bilski<ref>Naumann and Lord Inge are members of the International Advisory Board of [[World Security Network]] who also promote [http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/documents/3eproefGrandStrat(b).pdf the document].  See also: [http://www.globalsecuritynews.com/showArticle3.cfm?article_id=15391 NATO: New "Grand Strategy" Proposed by Former Top Military Leaders], Dieter Farwick, 16 January 2008 (this report also appears on the 2007 [http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=1606 International Analyst Network] site, with both ramping up the terrorist threat).  The Report was funded by the Dutch [[Noaber Foundation]], Van den Breemen is an advisor to the Noaber Foundation as is Douglas Murray. Noaber's  founder, J.G.P. Baan is also connected to the World Security Network as one of their [http://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/network/dsp_author3.cfm Authors].</ref>, the paper clearly owed much to neocon thinking and Murray’s distinctive philosophy:
 ::In every country, and at all times, we like to rely on certainty. Certainty about the past, the present and even the future. Yet certainty is based not on inevitability, but rather on social and intellectual needs. We seek to uphold a common and stable experience, shunning the arbitrary in favour of closure in debate.<ref>[http://www.csis.org/media/csis/events/080110_grand_strategy.pdf Towards a Grand Strategy for an Uncertain World: Renewing Transatlantic Partnership], [[Noaber Foundation]], 2007. </ref>
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 ==On the English Defence League==
 Speaking at the One Law For All conference in January 2011, Murray commented:
-::The [[English Defence League]], when they started protesting had banners saying things like Sharia law discriminates against women, Sharia law is anti-gay. Well I'm good with both of those sentiments I'm sure most people in this room are. If you‘re going to have a grassroots response from non-Muslims to Islamism, that would be how you'd want it surely.  But of course, we all know there are awkward things around this.  There have been exposed links from the EDL with far right organisations in individual cases, and maybe, others will know more about this, wider than that.  But you know, [[Louis Amis]] wrote a very interesting piece in [[Standpoint]] magazine a few months ago and he said, and others have said that as far as they have seen within the EDL, they have tried to kick out [[BNP]] elements.  Does that meant that they are racists or they aren't.  I'm not making a definitive point, but I'm just saying these things are extremely complex, and we ought to be careful before dismissing whole swathes of people. Thirdly, these groups [[Stop the Islamization of Europe]] and [[Stop the Islamization of America]], I don't know enough about them.  As far as I can see Stop the Islamization of Europe only has a few members.  In America, [[Robert Spencer]] is one of the directors, I happen to know Robert Spencer, I respect him, he's a very brilliant scholar and writer.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3fsynNRIFg Douglas Murray in support of the EDL at One-Law-For-All Conference], Youtube, 28 January 2011.</ref>
+::The [[English Defence League]], when they started protesting had banners saying things like Sharia law discriminates against women, Sharia law is anti-gay. Well I'm good with both of those sentiments I'm sure most people in this room are. If you‘re going to have a grassroots response from non-Muslims to Islamism, that would be how you'd want it surely.  But of course, we all know there are awkward things around this.  There have been exposed links from the EDL with far-right organisations in individual cases, and maybe, others will know more about this, wider than that.  But you know, [[Louis Amis]] wrote a very interesting piece in [[Standpoint]] magazine a few months ago and he said, and others have said that as far as they have seen within the EDL, they have tried to kick out [[BNP]] elements.  Does that meant that they are racists or they aren't.  I'm not making a definitive point, but I'm just saying these things are extremely complex, and we ought to be careful before dismissing whole swathes of people. Thirdly, these groups [[Stop the Islamization of Europe]] and [[Stop the Islamization of America]], I don't know enough about them.  As far as I can see Stop the Islamization of Europe only has a few members.  In America, [[Robert Spencer]] is one of the directors, I happen to know Robert Spencer, I respect him, he's a very brilliant scholar and writer.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3fsynNRIFg Douglas Murray in support of the EDL at One-Law-For-All Conference], Youtube, 28 January 2011.</ref>
 An article on the EDL website commented on the speech,
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 Murray appears regularly on the mainstream media including the BBC ('The Today Programme', 'Newsnight' and 'The Moral Maze'), Fox, and Sky. He did a number of broadcasts from the Israeli side of the border during the recent war with Hezbollah. <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/about.php People] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
-He also appears in the British and foreign press, and has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New York Sun, NRC Handelsbad and numerous other magazines and newspapers. <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/about.php People] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>In January 2007 Murray and [[Daniel Pipes]] debated against London Mayor Ken Livingstone on “Clash of Civilisations or World Civilisation?” <ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/equalities/clash-conf.jsp Conference: A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations 20 January 2007] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
+He also appears in the British and foreign press, and has written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The New York Sun, NRC Handelsblad and numerous other magazines and newspapers. <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/about.php People] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>In January 2007 Murray and [[Daniel Pipes]] debated against London Mayor Ken Livingstone on “Clash of Civilisations or World Civilisation?” <ref>[http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/equalities/clash-conf.jsp Conference: A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations 20 January 2007] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
 ===Newsnight 8 February 2008===
-Murray was a commentator on the suggestion by archbishop Rowan Williams that there should be space for sharia law in Britain.
+Murray was a commentator on the suggestion by Archbishop Rowan Williams that there should be space for sharia law in Britain.
 ==Website links==
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 ::"...when in Holland needs police protection and stays under an alias."<ref>[http://www.nysun.com/opinion/mugged-by-reality/38058/ Mugged by Reality], The ''New York Sun'', August 17, 2006, Daniel Freedman.</ref>
-The same claim was made in article by Murray in the ''Sunday Times''.<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.</ref> This related to a conference celebrating murdered [[Pim Fortuyn]]’s political party, [[Lijst Pim Fortuyn]]:
+The same claim was made in an article by Murray in the ''Sunday Times''.<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.</ref> This related to a conference celebrating murdered [[Pim Fortuyn]]’s political party, [[Lijst Pim Fortuyn]]:
 ::"The organisers had assembled nearly all the writers most critical of Islam’s current manifestation in the West. The American scholars [[Daniel Pipes]] and [[Robert Spencer]] were present, as were the Egyptian-Jewish exile and scholar of dhimmitude, [[Bat Ye’or]], and the great Muslim apostate [[Ibn Warraq]]."<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The ''Sunday Times'', February 26, 2006.</ref>

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 ==Website links==
-Murray's website links to several articles, including Daniel Freedman's profile in the (2006) New York Sun, which claimed that Murray:
+Murray's website links to several articles, including [[Daniel Freedman]]'s profile in the (2006) ''New York Sun'', which claimed that Murray:
-::"...when in Holland needs police protection and stays under an alias."<ref>[http://www.nysun.com/opinion/mugged-by-reality/38058/ Mugged by Reality], The New York Sun, August 17, 2006, Daniel Freedman.</ref>
+::"...when in Holland needs police protection and stays under an alias."<ref>[http://www.nysun.com/opinion/mugged-by-reality/38058/ Mugged by Reality], The ''New York Sun'', August 17, 2006, Daniel Freedman.</ref>
-The same claim was made in article by Murray in the Sunday Times.<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.</ref> This related to a conference celebrating murdered [[Pim Fortuyn]]’s political party, [[Lijst Pim Fortuyn]]:
+The same claim was made in article by Murray in the ''Sunday Times''.<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.</ref> This related to a conference celebrating murdered [[Pim Fortuyn]]’s political party, [[Lijst Pim Fortuyn]]:
-::"The organisers had assembled nearly all the writers most critical of Islam’s current manifestation in the West. The American scholars [[Daniel Pipes]] and [[Robert Spencer]] were present, as were the Egyptian-Jewish exile and scholar of dhimmitude, [[Bat Ye’or]], and the great Muslim apostate [[Ibn Warraq]]."<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.</ref>
+::"The organisers had assembled nearly all the writers most critical of Islam’s current manifestation in the West. The American scholars [[Daniel Pipes]] and [[Robert Spencer]] were present, as were the Egyptian-Jewish exile and scholar of dhimmitude, [[Bat Ye’or]], and the great Muslim apostate [[Ibn Warraq]]."<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The ''Sunday Times'', February 26, 2006.</ref>
-Despite the previous observation, Murray argued that: "There was no overriding political agenda to the occasion."<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.</ref>
+Despite the previous observation, Murray argued that: "There was no overriding political agenda to the occasion."<ref>Douglas Murray, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article735009.ece We should fear Holland’s silence Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe’s freest country], The ''Sunday Times'', February 26, 2006.</ref>
-Daniel Freedman's New York Sun article stated:
+Daniel Freedman's ''New York Sun'' article stated:
-::"Murray lectures and debates across Europe in support of what he describes as neoconservative foreign policy [...] We pick Iran as a test case for his neoconservativism. First, basic realism is applied: When someone threatens to wipe out an ally, as Tehran's theocrats have repeatedly done toward Israel, you don't just say "that's interesting" or say that they "don't really mean it," he tells me. You take it as a real threat. Then you imagine how you'd ideally like Iran to be, which is as a non-threatening democratic government. Therefore what America and her allies should have been doing during the past few years is fostering democratic movements in Iran.<ref>[http://www.nysun.com/opinion/mugged-by-reality/38058/ Mugged by Reality], The New York Sun, August 17, 2006, Daniel Freedman.</ref>
+::"Murray lectures and debates across Europe in support of what he describes as neoconservative foreign policy [...] We pick Iran as a test case for his neoconservativism. First, basic realism is applied: When someone threatens to wipe out an ally, as Tehran's theocrats have repeatedly done toward Israel, you don't just say "that's interesting" or say that they "don't really mean it," he tells me. You take it as a real threat. Then you imagine how you'd ideally like Iran to be, which is as a non-threatening democratic government. Therefore what America and her allies should have been doing during the past few years is fostering democratic movements in Iran.<ref>[http://www.nysun.com/opinion/mugged-by-reality/38058/ Mugged by Reality], The ''New York Sun'', August 17, 2006, Daniel Freedman.</ref>
 The article also discussed Murray's support for Israel:

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 ==Centre for Social Cohesion==
 Murray was appointed director the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] when it was founded by [[Civitas]] in 2007. <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/press/prCSCNew.php Centre for Social Cohesion: Press Release], accessed 22 March 2008.</ref>
-In July 2007, the Centre issued its first published work, an A-Z of Muslim Organisations in Britain, which claimed to be the fullest analysis yet published of the major Muslim organisations in Britain.<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/press/prCSC1Jul2007.php Centre for Social Cohesion: Press Release], 1 July 2007, accessed 22 March 2008.</ref>.
+In July 2007, the Centre issued its first published work, an ''''A-Z of Muslim Organisations in Britain'''', which claimed to be the fullest analysis yet published of the major Muslim organisations in Britain.<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/press/prCSC1Jul2007.php Centre for Social Cohesion: Press Release], 1 July 2007, accessed 22 March 2008.</ref>.
-In August 2007 Murray and James Brandon co-authored the Centre's first pamphlet, Hate on the State, How British Libraries Encourage Islamic Extremism. <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pdf/HateOnTheState.pdf Hate on the State, How British Libraries Encourage Islamic Extremism], August 2007, accessed 22 March 2008</ref>The Centre later claimed credit when the Prime minister announced that the "Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is working with the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council to agree a common approach to deal with the inflammatory and extremist material that some seek to distribute through public libraries, while also of course protecting freedom of speech."<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2007/11/pm_uses_centres_hate_on_the_st.html PM uses Centre's 'Hate on the State' report to tackle stocking of pro-jihadist books by libraries], Blog, The Centre for Social Cohesion, 28 November 2007.</ref>
+In August 2007 Murray and [[James Brandon]] co-authored the Centre's first pamphlet, ''''Hate on the State, How British Libraries Encourage Islamic Extremism''''. <ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pdf/HateOnTheState.pdf Hate on the State, how British libraries encourage Islamic extremism], August 2007, accessed 22 March 2008</ref>The Centre later claimed credit when the British prime minister announced that the 'Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport is working with the [[Museums, Libraries and Archives Council]] to agree a common approach to deal with the inflammatory and extremist material that some seek to distribute through public libraries, while also of course protecting freedom of speech'.<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/blog/2007/11/pm_uses_centres_hate_on_the_st.html PM uses Centre's 'Hate on the State' report to tackle stocking of pro-jihadist books by libraries], Blog, The Centre for Social Cohesion, 28 November 2007.</ref>
-In January 2008, the Centre produced an analysis which showed that a third of Muslims signing a letter of support for [[Ken Livingstone]] were linked to the [[Muslim Council of Britain]] or the [[Muslim Association of Britain]].<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/press/CSCPRMuslimsandtheMayor.php PRESS BRIEFING: Muslims and the Mayor: Who are Ken's Muslim backers?], [[Centre for Social Cohesion]], 4 January 2008</ref>
+In January 2008, the centre produced an analysis which showed that a third of Muslims signing a letter of support for London mayor [[Ken Livingstone]] were linked to the [[Muslim Council of Britain]] or the [[Muslim Association of Britain]].<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/press/CSCPRMuslimsandtheMayor.php PRESS BRIEFING: Muslims and the Mayor: Who are Ken's Muslim backers?], [[Centre for Social Cohesion]], 4 January 2008</ref>
 ==Political Views==

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 '''Douglas Murray''' (full name Douglas Kear Murray) (born 16 July 1979) was educated at [[Magdalen College]], Oxford.<ref>[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000676.php The Social Affairs Unit - Publications List: Neoconservatism: Why We Need It], accessed 20 March 2008. </ref>
-He is currently the associate director of the [[Henry Jackson Society]], which merged with his former employer, the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] a think tank set up by [[Civitas]] "following widespread and longstanding concern about the diminishing sense of community in Britain"<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/action.php About Us] (Accessed: 6 September 2007)</ref>. Murray has also contributed to the [[Social Affairs Unit]].
+He is currently the associate director of the [[Henry Jackson Society]], which merged with his former employer, the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] a think tank set up in 2007 by [[Civitas]] 'following widespread and longstanding concern about the diminishing sense of community in Britain'.<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/action.php About Us] (Accessed: 6 September 2007)</ref>. Murray has also contributed to the [[Social Affairs Unit]].
+That same year he was ranked 79th in the ''Telegraph''’s 'The Right's 100 Most Influential' list, according to which he was 'gaining a ubiquitous media presence and is an eloquent advocate of all things American and a strong supporter of taking military action against Iraq'. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/nosplit/nlist75-100.xml The Right's 100 Most Influential: 100-76] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
 ==Early career==
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 This straw man attack on the idea of equal rights may owe something to the authoritarian philosopher [[Leo Strauss]], of whom Murray is a professed admirer.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/dec/30/mainsection.guardianletters3 Profound insights of Leo Strauss], Douglas Murray, [[The Guardian]], 30 December  2005.</ref>For Strauss, 'natural right' meant the right of the superior to dominate the inferior. <ref>[http://www.alternet.org/story/15935 Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception], by [[Jim Lobe]], [[Alternet]], 19 May 2003.</ref>
-Murray went on to present a picture of Europe on the verge of being outbred by Muslims,a common neoconservative trope:
+Murray went on to present a picture of Europe on the verge of being outbred by Muslims, a common neoconservative trope:
 ::Europe has used up its peace dividend. The holiday from reality it had for half a century during which it spent money on welfare whilst America protected its security, is now over – comprehensively so. Europe not only has unsustainable demographic issues which – if un-addressed - will eradicate the continent as we know it within three or four generations. It also has security issues, not least those associated with its unameliorated populations and its increasingly inefficient armies.

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 <youtube size="medium" align="right" caption="Douglas Murray at the One Law for All conference">Q3fsynNRIFg</youtube>
-'''Douglas Murray''' (full name Douglas Kear Murray) (born 16 July 1979) was educated at [[Magdalen College]], Oxford.<ref>[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000676.php The Social Affairs Unit - Publications List: Neoconservatism: Why We Need It], accessed 20 March 2008. </ref> He is currently the Director of the [[Centre for Social Cohesion]] a think tank set up by [[Civitas]] "following widespread and longstanding concern about the diminishing sense of community in Britain"<ref>[http://www.socialcohesion.co.uk/pubs/action.php About Us] (Accessed: 6 September 2007)</ref>. Murray has also contributed to the [[Social Affairs Unit]]. He was 79th in the Telegraph’s 'The Right's 100 Most Influential' in October 2007, according to which he is “gaining a ubiquitous media presence and is an eloquent advocate of all things American and a strong supporter of taking military action against Iraq”. <ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/30/nosplit/nlist75-100.xml The Right's 100 Most Influential: 100-76] (Accessed: 18 December 2007)</ref>
+'''Douglas Murray''' (full name Douglas Kear Murray) (born 16 July 1979) was educated at [[Magdalen College]], Oxford.<ref>[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/pub/000676.php The Social Affairs Unit - Publications List: Neoconservatism: Why We Need It], accessed 20 March 2008. </ref>
 ==Early career==
-Murray began researching his biography of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while still at Eton. Aged only 16, he persuaded the Home Office to grant him access to Douglas's papers which were embargoed until 2043.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Bosie-Poet-Lover-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0786866535 Amazon.com: Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde: Douglas Murray: Books], accessed 24 March 2008.</ref>The book was reportedly completed before Murray progressed to reading English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was published while he was still a 21-year-old undergraduate there.<ref>[http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/alfreddouglas.html Knitting Circle Alfred Douglas], accessed 21 March 2008</ref>
+Murray began researching his biography of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while still at Eton. Aged only 16, he persuaded the [[Home Office]] to grant him access to Douglas's papers which were embargoed until 2043.<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Bosie-Poet-Lover-Oscar-Wilde/dp/0786866535 Amazon.com: Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde: Douglas Murray: Books], accessed 24 March 2008.</ref>The book was reportedly completed before Murray progressed to reading English at Magdalen College, Oxford, and was published while he was still a 21-year-old undergraduate there.<ref>[http://www.knittingcircle.org.uk/alfreddouglas.html Knitting Circle Alfred Douglas], accessed 21 March 2008</ref>
-::His first book, Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas, was published in 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton (UK) and Miramax Books (USA). Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, the book became a bestseller, and was reissued in paperback in 2001 and 2002. While still at Oxford, Murray began reviewing for the Spectator. He has since written for many other publications, including the Observer and the New York Sun.<ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neoconservatism-Why-Need-Douglas-Murray/dp/product-description/1904863051 Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (Hardcover)], Amazon.co.uk, accessed 21 March 2008</ref>
+::His first book, ''Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas'', was published in 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton (UK) and Miramax Books (USA). Acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, the book became a bestseller, and was reissued in paperback in 2001 and 2002. While still at Oxford, Murray began reviewing for the ''Spectator''. He has since written for many other publications, including the Observer and the New York Sun.<ref>[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neoconservatism-Why-Need-Douglas-Murray/dp/product-description/1904863051 Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (Hardcover)], Amazon.co.uk, accessed 21 March 2008</ref>
-Murray's early writing for the Spectator was mainly focused on his literary interests. Murray claims to have been profoundly influenced by the 9/11 attacks:
+Murray's early writing for the ''Spectator'' was mainly focused on his literary interests. Murray claims to have been profoundly influenced by the 9/11 attacks:
 ::I haven't been in New York since the fall of 2000, when I was visiting this city to promote my first book. On the last day I was here, I visited a friend at her office on the top-most floors of the World Trade Center and looked out in awe over this great city. The assault on those towers proved the first in a now long line of attacks leveled against the free world. <ref>[http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000636.php Neoconservatism: why we need it - a talk to the Manhattan Institute by Douglas Murray], [[Social Affairs Unit]], 26 October 2005</ref>.
-::The youngest published biographer in history, he wrote the bestseller Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas during his gap year. Having read English at Oxford, he is working as a freelance political journalist and researching a book about Bloody Sunday. His play, Nightfall, heads to London’s West End next year. It centres on a real-life dinner party in 1944, when Swedish diplomat and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg tried to persuade his guest, Nazi Adolf Eichmann, from implementing the Final solution.<ref>[http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/features/4-Douglas-Murray.2477188.jp 4 Douglas Murray], [[Scotland on Sunday]] 9 November 2003.</ref>
+::The youngest published biographer in history, he wrote the bestseller ''Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas'' during his gap year. Having read English at Oxford, he is working as a freelance political journalist and researching a book about Bloody Sunday. His play, ''Nightfall'', heads to London’s West End next year. It centres on a real-life dinner party in 1944, when Swedish diplomat and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg tried to persuade his guest, Nazi Adolf Eichmann, from implementing the Final solution.<ref>[http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/features/4-Douglas-Murray.2477188.jp 4 Douglas Murray], [[Scotland on Sunday]] 9 November 2003.</ref>
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 ::For two weeks in 2003, the Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland in 1972 questioned men who were serving in the intelligence services at the time. For national security reasons as well as for their own safety, all were anonymous, all spoke from behind screens, and one could not turn up because of new Article 2 considerations. What documents could be produced were very heavily redacted for Article 2 and national security reasons. What questioning was possible was limited to questioning that did not impinge on Article 2 and national security issues. That was with people who had been in the field thirty-two years ago. An inquiry in 2004, inquiring into intelligence from 2002 and 2003, would not move forward very far.<ref>[http://www.opendemocracy.net/media-journalismwar/article_1699.jsp Hutton - the wrong inquiry], by  Douglas Murray, [[openDemocracy]], 29 January 2004.</ref>
-In 2005, Murray wrote a highly critical review of [[Richard Norton-Taylor]]'s play base on the Saville inquiry:
+In 2005, Murray wrote a highly critical review of [[Richard Norton-Taylor]]'s play based on the Saville inquiry:
-::it is not the smugness of those who get their fix of “issues” that is the problem. The odious thing about this exercise is that it plugs a gap in the market for those who are cash-rich and time-poor. “Tribunal theatre” is simply filling a gap in the market for no-strings-attached, neatly packaged, moral tourism.<ref>[http://www.opendemocracy.net/node/2500 Bloody Sunday, or the theatre of moral corruption],by Douglas Murray, [[openDemocracy]], 11 May 2005.</ref>
+::it is not the smugness of those who get their fix of “issues” that is the problem. The odious thing about this exercise is that it plugs a gap in the market for those who are cash-rich and time-poor. “Tribunal theatre” is simply filling a gap in the market for no-strings-attached, neatly packaged, moral tourism.<ref>[http://www.opendemocracy.net/node/2500 Bloody Sunday, or the theatre of moral corruption], by Douglas Murray, [[openDemocracy]], 11 May 2005.</ref>
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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">We long ago reached the point where the only thing white Britons can do is to remain silent about the change in their country. Ignored for a generation, they are expected to get on, silently but happily, with abolishing themselves, accepting the knocks and respecting of their country.<ref name="whiteB">Douglas Murray, [http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4868/full?page=3 ‘Census that revealed a troubling future’], Standpoint, March 2013, accessed 28 January 2015</ref></blockquote>
-Murray also asked 'were your derided average white voters not correct when they said that they were losing their country?' and argued:
+He continued by arguing:
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">For what it is worth, it seems to me that the vindictiveness with which the concerns of white British people, and the white working and middle class in particular, have been met by politicians and pundits alike is a phenomenon in need of serious and swift attention.<ref name="whiteB"/></blockquote>
 ==On the English Defence League==