My brave new world
Do not adjust your set!If you are looking for the diary on melaniephillips.com, you’ve come to the right place. It now has a new home. If you are a new reader of this blog — welcome, and I hope you enjoy it. I’ve posted below some of my last few entries to give you a flavour of what I write.
All new diary posts will now appear on this website, which you can access either by clicking on melaniephillips.com or by coming here to the Spectator. Established readers should find all the services that were provided on my old site; you can subscribe through the RSS feed, you can contact me at the email address on the masthead and, in a new addition, you will now be able to post your own comments below each entry. The archive of my previous diary entries will still be found on melaniephillips.com and that website — maintained by my incomparable webmaster Tom — will still be updated with articles I write for other publications as well as my talks and lectures.
So why have I made this move? I was delighted to have the opportunity because it allows me to continue to be myself while enjoying a number of advantages. First and foremost is the chance it provides to reach out to a yet wider readership. The Spectator is a highly respected political weekly which punches well above its weight, and its website has established itself very fast as a must-read on the net. It offers me a congenial home with which I am already familiar, since I write for the magazine itself from time to time and know how much it respects independence of mind.
And that of course is the most important thing for me. Some readers might be anxious that what I now write will be controlled or influenced in some way by the Spectator’s editorial line. That will not happen. What I write will not be seen in advance by the Spectator’s staff before it goes up here, and subject to the usual constraints of the laws of libel and contempt of court they will have no input into the content of this blog, even though they will be paying me a small stipend. I will continue to write as freely as before. It will be the same blog but in a different setting.
So I hope you enjoy these elegant new surroundings and will continue to accompany me as I embark on this fresh chapter of my adventures in cyberspace.
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Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and is a panellist on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze. Her most recent book is 'Londonistan', published by Encounter and Gibson Square.
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Robbie Gore
October 22nd, 2007 11:02amDear Melanie, Congratulations on the move. I look forward to reading your insightful commentary in these salubrious new surroundings. As an Australian, I wish more of our local papers would pick up your articles but I fear that the Establishment here is becoming more beholden to the attitudes that helped create 'Londonistan' over there. Anyway, thank G-d for the internet!!! Keep up the good work.
A. Shalom
October 22nd, 2007 11:09amCogratulations to the Spectator for getting into its site the unique diary of Melanie Phillips. She has the rare abiltiy to see the essence below the thick layers of propaganda, misconceived ideas and simple lazy thinking - and at the same time to write in a lucid style which is a pleasure to read
Shy Guy
October 22nd, 2007 11:09amAnother advantage is the ability to now comment. Good luck on your new move. Bookmarked!
Rob
October 22nd, 2007 11:16amExcellent new site and so glad you have an enabled comments facility on this one.
Paul
October 22nd, 2007 11:24amSounds like a good move, Melanie! I trust and hope that you will gain a wider audience. I have been an avid reader of your diary and articles for quite a while now and look forward to continuing to read your enlightening and stimulating views now on the Spectator web-site. Thanks for everything!
George
October 22nd, 2007 12:54pmGreat! I'll subscribe to the RSS feed right now. Just so I know, is the lady in the landscape Miranda from The Tempest?
Cranmer
October 22nd, 2007 1:00pmHis Grace is delighted to hear of this move, for it is well-deserved. He looks forward to reading more of your intelligent and erudite musings upon matters religio-political, and he trusts they will achieve a much broader readership via this platform.
Bob Morris
October 22nd, 2007 1:41pmI think your loyal readers will follow you anywhere.
Peter Sammut
October 22nd, 2007 2:04pmDear Melanie, Congratulations are in order, your new site is very elegant. May your audience grow larger, and may your good work continue to smash the lies and propaganda so prevalent in these times.
jose
October 22nd, 2007 3:26pmnice....,and i dont even have to register to post comments!!!!!!!! thank god!
Patrick Bramwell
October 22nd, 2007 3:38pmElegant setting for an elegant mind. Speccie readers are in for a treat.
Alan
October 22nd, 2007 4:38pmMelanie, at last big-time celebrity status in blogsville. From your virtual chum, who will occasionally remind you of Auster. (Unless he reminds you himself here. Are you prepared for his unblinking inquisition?)
13th Man
October 22nd, 2007 5:10pmKeep the good work up.
David Gibson
October 22nd, 2007 6:38pmCongratulations!!! Keep up the good work.
Mladen Andrijasevic
October 22nd, 2007 7:43pmCongratulations! With the wider readership there may even be hope that Britain will finally wake up. On the other hand, we might even eventually read what you think of Amos Oz and A.B. Yehoshua signing a petition calling for negotiations with Hamas.
SWW
October 22nd, 2007 9:16pmDear Melanie, the best thing about your new site is that it implies a long-deserved recognition of your concern--passion--for truth and decency, and the urgent need for these in the world today. Best wishes from America!
George Steiner
October 23rd, 2007 1:38amIt is good to have you here Ms. Phillips.
Henry Kaye
October 23rd, 2007 8:46pmI am glad that the facility of comments has been restored. Although you had to abandon that facility on your original blog - due to its abuse by a few - I am looking forward to a good exchange of views on subjects that you generate and upon which you express such excellent views.
Archie Wedderspoon
October 24th, 2007 8:34amI am delighted to see you here. Keep up the good work.