Spectator Australia · Douglas Murray · Thursday 30 April 2026
Douglas Murray attends the White House correspondents' dinner, gets shouted at by protesters, and mistakes the experience for journalism.
Douglas Murray went to the correspondents' dinner and came back with a thousand words about how mean the protesters were. The American press spent the evening toasting itself in a Hilton ballroom while the country it covers comes apart at the seams, and the Spectator's takeaway is that someone shouted at Douglas on the footpath. Mencken would have been inside throwing the bread rolls.