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Sky News AU
4 days ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Toxic cocktail of narcissism': Douglas Murray blasts ‘privileged' Harvard protesters
Author Douglas Murray discusses the 'toxic mix' and 'narcissism' of Harvard University graduation speeches which highlight the 'real bigotry and real hatred' towards Jews. "You're one of the luckiest kids in the one of the luckiest generations of all time, and you seem to be under the impression that the war in the Middle East that Hamas started is somehow being directed from Harvard University,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'Neither Hamas nor the Israeli government take any direction from Harvard University or any other privileged Ivy League campus. 'There's a world beyond the end of your own nose, and these students haven't been taught that ... they certainly haven't taught any humility. 'They think that the world is going to be run on their terms. 'They'll just continue this toxic cocktail of advocacy, endless prejudice against people they feel able to be prejudiced against, and wild, wild narcissism.'
Sky News AU
6 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
Douglas Murray rips into Bono's ‘rotten' claims about USAID
Author Douglas Murray claims Bono is 'generous with other people's money' after he shared his advocacy for USAID. 'The judgment of Elon Musk, the DOGE team and indeed President Trump, was that they looked under the bonnet of what was there at USAID … and decided that the whole thing was so rotten, and there was so much unaccountability that it just wasn't worth saving, it was worth scrapping,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'When Bono speaks like this, he seems to forget … this is money that American taxpayers work for and hand over to the federal government to be well used. 'USAID's money was not well used; it was an incredible political entity.'
Mercury
6 days ago
- General
- Mercury
‘Law made to look like an arse': Keir Starmer's X post slammed for hypocrisy
Author Douglas Murray discusses UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's thoughts on small boat crossings in Britain. The number of people claiming asylum in the UK in 2024 was the highest since records began. 'Keir Starmer says, you know, in a tweet, 'I'm angry', in order to try to placate the actual, real anger of the British public,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'The migration just keeps going up, up, and up endlessly. 'What's the point in even pretending you have borders? 'If Starmer actually wants to demonstrate that he feels angry about this … he should start the force deportation of the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who have broken into the UK illegally.'
Sky News AU
6 days ago
- General
- Sky News AU
Douglas Murray exposes UK's blasphemy law after a man was convicted for burning Quran
Author Douglas Murray discusses a UK man burning his own copy of the Quran shouting in Turkish, 'Islam is the religion of terrorism'. The man has been convicted of a religiously activated public order offence and fined. 'If somebody were to set light to a Bible, everybody would be running out saying, this man has an absolute right to do so,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'It's a blasphemy law that the state is allowing to be pushed through by threat of force. 'There's no good argument for why the Quran has to be treated as the holiest of holy books. 'No, it's only that intimidation, violence, and thuggery seems to work. 'And I thought that was the sort of thing that the law was there to protect us against.'
Sky News AU
6 days ago
- General
- Sky News AU
Douglas Murray blasts ‘low-level copycats' at Harvard for inane letter blaming Israel for war
Author Douglas Murray has condemned students at Harvard University for acting like 'low-level copycats of the thugs of Hamas' during their pro-Palestine actions on campus. 'The students at places like Harvard, from the 7 October 2023 onwards, were making it clear which side they were on,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi. 'They were saying in a joint letter … that the Israeli government, not Hamas, the Israeli government was responsible for all violence. 'Since then, students at Harvard and other elite universities have been allowed to rampage across university … basically act as low-level copycats of the thugs of Hamas they seem to admire so much. "They've spent the last 18 or so months calling for the intifada, the uprising, the violent terrorist uprising to be globalised.'
