En route

Nick Shelley

Nice picture of you Melanie gazing out over a tempestuous horizon...

Tony

Wish you well in your travels & many thanks for exposing the truth to the dangers which Western democracy is now facing. It's sad that the mainstream media fails in its duty to report this.

David

Thanks for letting us know. I for one look out daily for your posts which are beacons of light amid the prevailing intellectual fog. Safe travel!

Frank P

Leeerve the picture! Will someone please extend my education and identify the painter and the subject, please. Would like to see the original.

David

added to previous comment...
I should have said "...the prevailing intellectual and moral fog."

Verity

Tony, Melanie is PART OF the mainstream media. She is a national and international journalist and broadcaster.

Emmet

Keep up the good work Melanie, not everyone has been taken in by the propaganda. Time will prove you right.

Si, N

Frank P.

the artist is John William Waterhouse - the subject is the Tempest. Here we see Miranda stranded on Prospero's isle.

Whereas Melanie has breached herself on a monumental strop.

Stop sulking.

john doe

Missed you Melanie. Your articles and posts are sustenance for the soul and VERY much appreciated. We need you in this wasteland of moral turpitude.

john doe

Frank P: It looks like a Pre- Raphaelite job to me. Burne Jones or Rosetti perhaps?

Ronnie

God, we really are in a bad way if we are replying to a post apologising for there being no posts, like a spotless litter of Kleenex puppies.

Except Verity of course, who could start a fight in a morgue.

stanley Jerusalem

Ronnie

No she couldn't; nor a piss-up in a brewery, nor a bu......

Sue

You are worth the wait Melanie.
Your patient fan.

Sue

Ronnie notes: "Except Verity of course, who could start a fight in a morgue."

You've made my day. LOL!

Frank P

Thanks Si,N

Good to see there is one aficionado of the fine arts hereabouts.

john doe

Brave try, but no banana. Thanks for the effort anyway.

As for the gripers who complain of Melanie's posts:

"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,
That has such people in't!"
Miranda
William Shakespeare
The Tempest Act V, Scene I

You know Melanie could have (a) been describing the people at her current location or (b) the commentariat of this blog - or at least, some of them.

Anglica

Frank P @ 8:58p: Indeed. Not to mention, of course, Aldous Huxley; who titled his "Brave New World" from your quotation! Dystopia being now upon us, Mustapha Mond and all...

Brilliant, Melanie!!! Thanks.

EC

Frank,

The curse of the comments box finally caught up with this heap of @!#$ (my PC) yesterday afternoon .....

However, if you also want to check out the 1875 version of Miranda and Waterhouse's other works then this is a good site:

http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/miranda-the-tempest-1916.html

alan

We understand. Post election sulks.

Robbit

Enjoy your travels - and we look forward to your return. As so many have said your blog and articles are a beacon of light. Simply the best, all round the best I have found anywhere on the internet.

Frank P

alan

Sulks? I doubt it. Schemes more likely; this battle lost, but the war is still to be won and is raging on many fronts. Never underestimate your enemy, particularly if you are a traitor, when everyone is your enemy, because no side trusts a traitor, once discovered or declared.

Perhaps you'd like to explain who 'we' are?

Frank P

EC

Yes, thanks. Commiserations on your software problems, so to speak.

I googled furiously once Si,N had given me the clue; found all sorts of goodies on the subject, including the one you so kindly mention. Seems his work has been snapped up by private collectors mainly and I didn't find any record of the version above located in a gallery. Who knows? Perhaps Melanie has it on her parlour wall? Hope so. Someone should present it to her as a reward for 20 years of devoted service
to Britain, against creeping, covert communism.

Brown banging on last night about a 'New World Order' and 'Internationalism' last night probably mean that the they're dropping the 'covert' ploy, emboldened by Obama's success as a limpid Lefty.

Ahh well; that's enough arty-fartying for one week ... back to the fray, there's a war to be won.

Isabella

It must be hard for poor Ronnie that he'll never be able to set up a blog with as many followers as Melanie Phillips, but does he have to wear his jealousy so openly?

Ronnie

Yes, Isabella, it is hard. She has all these friends while I have none. Were she simply to post a mere comma it would generate a thread stretching beyond the horizon.

Its just not possible to keep such a tempestuous envy in check.

Herbert Thornton

Nick's suggestion that Miranda in the painting represents Melanie has a certain appeal, but Miranda's calm contemplation of the shipwreck hardly does justice to Melanie's efforts to actually rescue us all from the storm.

Isn't this painting of Grace Darling determinedly rowing to the sailors' rescue is a bit nearer the mark?

http://www.rnli.org.uk/assets/who_we_are/the_heritage_trust/gracedarlingactionpainting.jpg

EC

Ronnie: "Were she simply to post a mere comma it would generate a thread stretching beyond the horizon."

I do wonder why an articulate, intelligent, decent woman expressing her opinions on the state of society, the nation and the world generates so much criticism and worse.

Before "the centre" was stolen and stealthily moved leftwards she would have been considered very middle of the road, but now the Brown stuff is liberally heaped upon her by the left its collaborators. Far worse lies in store for their own supporters, any doubting lefties, who dare to wander "off message."

To preserve the current hegemony no dissent can be allowed, not even a mere comma! This is because it is hollow at its centre, and like a rotten tree would soon topple if subjected to pressure from within. The last thing that "they" want is people like Melanie encouraging freedom of thought. All that light and fresh air would be deadly!

Ronnie

EC, are you saying that we must dissent by not dissenting from Melanie's view? That we must stike out for freedom by not exercising our freedom to disagree with Melanie?

You are not the first here to be under the impression that this forum is exclusively for the like-minded.

How dull would that be? How mindless. I may not agree with Melanie but, at the same time, I thank God she is here (please don't tell her I said that)

Its a blog!

EC

Ronnie, that was a bit Laboured - even for you ;-))

I'm all for dissent. I'm particularly happy to dissent about anything or from anyone I don't agree with.

One of my favourite pieces of New Labour dissent was away back, when a recently enobled Lord Robert Winston (one of their own!) thought he'd be able to make difference by mentioning a few things that were wrong with the NHS. To his horror, rather than being warmly thanked for his informed input, he was hauled over the coals, threatened with expulsion from the party (etc. etc.) if he didn't retract, abase himself before Blair 'n Mandy and then agree to shut up. It appears that he agreed. Fortunately for him, as others who didn't suffered character a$$ination or worse.

It would be boring if everyone agreed with each other all the time but in my opinion things have been getting a little bit one sided in the wrong direction recently.

Unlike so many, Melanie has a moral compass that is still working. She will never compromise on views that are to her unremarkable, self-evident truths. She backs them up with detailed, well referenced sources. What IS remarkable is that at the present time, amongst her journalist colleagues, she is almost a lone voice expressing some very inconvenient truths for the establishment. Some, or all, of these things seem to upset some people, particularly those who want to malign or silence one of the few remaining voices of reason in Gulag GB.

I know it must be dull, dim and mindless for anyone to express any support or appreciation of her work on Melanie's own blog page but ..... why not ?

After all, it's a blog!!!

Ronnie

EC, did anyone suggest that you shouldn't?