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Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial columns on political and social issues Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, Londonistan and several other books. Styled a conservative by her opponents, she prefers to think of herself as defending authentic liberal values against the attempt to destroy western culture from within.

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Britain's Quisling party

5th November 2009 Melanie Phillips

So now we finally have the unequivocal answer to the question some of us have been insistently asking: what is the point of the Conservative party? The answer…

The clash of uncivilisations

21st October 2009 Melanie Phillips

The frenzy over the participation of BNP leader Nick Griffin on Question Time this week has been a classic case of failing to identify the real elephant in the room.…

Melanie Phillips

14th September 2009 Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial columns on political and social issues Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she…

Obama in Cairo

4th June 2009 Melanie Phillips

First, the good bits in Obama’s speech in Cairo.

He told the Palestinians unequivocally that violence was wrong.

He said that there was an unbreakable bond between…

Beware the new axis of evangelicals and Islamists

4th March 2009 Melanie Phillips

Last weekend the Revd Stephen Sizer, vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water appeared at an anti-Israel meeting with an Islamist called Ismail Patel. Patel has not only accused Israel of…

Change we can all believe in

6th June 2008 Melanie Phillips

So the new dawn of American politics has brought us, on day one, what exactly? First off, Obama makes a speech to the American Jews of AIPAC that is such…

Motes and beams

19th May 2008 Melanie Phillips

I never had sex with that woman! said President Clinton about Monica Lewinsky.

I never said I would talk to terrorists! protested presidential hopeful Barack Obama, after President Bush…

Happy 60th birthday, Israel: well done for surviving

30th April 2008 Melanie Phillips

What would Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have said if, on the day that he declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he had known that…

Melanie Phillips

19th September 2007 Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial columns on political and social issues Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she…

A major defeat in the war to defend the free world

1st August 2007 Melanie Phillips

Shortly after the release of Alan Johnston from Gaza the website of Conflicts Forum, a group advocating engagement with Islamists and which is run by the former MI6 officer Alastair…