‘All fawning and softballs’: Douglas Murray slams interview with Syrian President

Mar 13, 2025
Author Douglas Murray reacts to the "softball" interview with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, conducted by Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell.

“If Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell had been interviewing somebody who voted for Brexit in 2016 or somebody who even voted for Trump in 2024, they would have thrown everything at them,” Mr Murray said.

“It would have been a fulminating rage of hostile questions and hostile framings of the interview subject.

“But you have a jihadist in front of you who's just overtaken Syria, and it's all fawning and softballs.

“It's really indicative of where a significant portion, actually, of the sort of centrist political class still is and it's all about the usual thing, self-loathing, self-blame.”

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