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> It’s possible, and Murray, of course, is as gay as a bicycle

This is the relevant throughline with Murray. It's what he genuinely cares about, and all his various writings and seemingly contradictory stances only make sense in reference to it.

He wrote Strange Death of Europe (still a brilliant and, at the time, daring book), but he doesn't seem to have anything much to say about e.g. the Jewish enclaves of north London or the question of whether Rishi Sunak is English. He feverishly defends Israel and seems more concerned with the misfortunes of the peoples of Israel than of his own homeland. He was stridently anti-trans. He takes grave exception to the president of Turkey and with the behaviour of many Arab states.

At first one can confuse oneself when reading Murray, especially if one's introduction is via Strange Death, into thinking that he's primarily a nativist, or further right than he really is. In truth, he's just anti-Muslim, and for good reason: they're anti-him. He took issue with trans because it turns the public against LGBT. He took issue with mass immigration in the Merkel era because it filled Europe with gay-hating Muslims. He supports Israel because they too hate and seek to destroy Muslims.

This is the only throughline that makes sense with this man. It's what he truly cares about. That's not to say he _doesn't_ care about e.g. liberalism, but it's not his primary cause.

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Murray cannot be trusted, if you can't see that get to Specsavers.

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