Media Appearances and Journalism
Murray has appeared on a number of British current affairs programmes, including the BBC's Question Time, This Week, HardTalk, the Today programme, The Big Questions, and The Daily Politics, in which he presented a piece arguing that multiculturalism is not multiracialism. Murray has written for The Guardian and Standpoint, and in 2012 he was appointed a contributing editor of The Spectator.
Under the headline "Anyone know any Irishman jokes?" Murray wrote a column querying a council having "to pay thousands of pounds in compensation" to a union official who had been told an Irish joke by a Conservative councillor, writing "you can reflect on the ramifications for the taxpayer of a society that decides it needs officials to arbitrate on jokes". The result was that over 70 Irish jokes appeared on the blog. The Federation of Irish Societies (an organisation that represents Irish clubs and societies in Britain) lodged a formal complaint about the blog to the Press Complaints Commission. Murray wrote about the incident in an article for the Spectator.
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