Douglas Kear Murray
Douglas Kear Murray (born 16 July 1979) is a British author and conservative political commentator. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018. He is currently an associate editor of the conservative British political and cultural magazine The Spectator.
Murray is most well known for his criticism of immigration and Islam. His books include Neoconservatism: Why We Need It (2005), The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017), The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019) and The War on the West (2022).
Prevent Programme
The Prevent programme claims to be an anti-terrorism programme run by the British government. It was founded in 2019.
Douglas Murray and others have warned that the programme is increasingly partisan, focusing mainly on right wing extremists. Murray has warned that a 2023 report by Prevent suggested that reading books by George Orwell (including Nineteen Eighty-Four) , C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad or himself could be an indication of far-right or extemist views.[1]