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Tuesday, 5th April 2011

A big welcome to The Commentator, the new on-line publication produced by the excellent Robin Shepherd. Robin is a doughty fighter for truth, decency and rationality in the world – and now in The Commentator he has created a vehicle for empowering comrades-in-arms in the defence of civilisation and enabling their voices to be heard too. Today’s inaugural edition sets out its aims:

First, to provide a select but high quality quotient of original, featured news (see top middle of front page), focusing on important issues that are either downplayed or ignored by the mainstream media. We envisage reaching 3-5 new items a day.

Second, to deliver top class commentary on domestic and international issues from the perspective described above. Think the Guardian's Comment is free, and then imagine its equal and opposite.

... Third, to provide a link aggregator along the lines of the big American services of this type such as Real Clear Politics or the Drudge Report. We aim to provide you with a one stop shop of the most interesting news and comment of the day so you don't need to go to 20 different sites to find it yourself.

It also has an exclusive story, that the UK Foreign Office is still upholding the Goldstone Report even though Goldstone himself has now recanted his core claim that the Israelis deliberately targeted civilians and has admitted that the UN Human Rights Council which sponsored the report is driven by an animus against Israel.

Here’s hoping that The Commentator becomes a terrific success.

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Truthtriumphs

April 5th, 2011 1:07pm

Excellent news!

I look forward to the contributions below the line from Blades, Herzen, Tilly, Carl, Victoria and the rest of the motley crew, whose lives, seemingly, are blighted by the success and humanity of that tiny sliver of land called Israel,an amazing country surviving against the odds surrounded, as it is, by a sea of barbarity.

veryneat

April 5th, 2011 1:45pm

Congratulations to Robin Shepherd and many thanks to him and to Melanie for fighting for the heart, soul and mind of Western civilisation.

Arthur

April 5th, 2011 1:50pm

This look awesome. Will you be writing for it, Melanie?

Dr Michael Salt

April 5th, 2011 2:35pm

@ Veryneat

Exactly so.

Merlyn

April 5th, 2011 6:12pm

Thank you for that, Melanie.
I will certainly be supporting it... the more commentators willing to admit that that we are being brainwashed the better.... interesting about the F.O.

April 5th, 2011 11:36pm

Melanie, will you be writing for it? I hope so.

elvira king

April 6th, 2011 11:27am

Excellent news!!! Best wishes and prayers that it reaches (and changes the hearts and minds)of millions who are indoctrinated into a self-hating, Israel-bashing, leftist ideology.

Adam B.

April 13th, 2011 11:51pm

A great website - added to favourites!

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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 'The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power', published by Encounter.

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