Douglas Murray wins ‘major’ libel claim against The Observer

During the conversation, Murray claimed, “the British soul is awakening and stirring with rage at what these people are doing”.

Malik claimed Murray’s use of “these people” referred to the migrants targeted during the riots and accused him of supporting the attacks. Malik failed to point out that Murray’s remarks came approximately half a year before the anti-immigrant violence broke out.

Guardian News & Media Ltd, the publisher of The Observer, was forced to apologise after Murray pursued legal action and pay damages.

Announcing the news on X on Tuesday, Murray said he won a “major” libel claim against the paper and criticised its “lazy journalism”.

“Last year the paper made very serious and false accusations against me, based on unchecked claims on social media,” he said, saying the paper and Malik “falsely accused me of supporting violent attacks against migrants. This was not true and did not make it to the online edition.

“Nevertheless such baseless accusations have to be stopped before other careless ‘journalists’ take fake news from the internet and repeat such damaging allegations.”