Melanie Phillips

It is a truth universally acknowledged that reason and religion are mortal foes. Reason deals a death blow to religion; religion is clearly irrationality on stilts.

If only religion didn’t exist, reason would rule the world and there would be no more wars, tyrannies or murderous hatreds.

Published in: Melanie's Blog

When the Sunday Telegraph revealed the offensive and infantile suggestions for the Pope’s visit to Britain by a bunch of extremely undiplomatic diplomats, some in the Jewish community may have found themselves for once on the side of mandarins in the Foreign Office.

What was uppermost in these officials' minds was

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

Has someone been slipping some kind of illegal substance into the Foreign Office officials’ tea?

In preparing for the Pope’s visit to Britain later this year, British diplomats circulated a memo which put forward a bizarre and highly offensive list of ‘ideal’ ways in which Benedict XVI might occupy his time i

Published in: Daily Mail

The past few days have seen the start of the latest series of the popular but vacuous light entertainment show Britain's Got Talent.

They have also seen the start of an equally vacuous light entertainment show called Britain's Got Politics.

Published in: Daily Mail

The Church and the judiciary are two of the most venerable pillars of the establishment.

But in an explosive development, war has been declared between them over one of the most fundamental aspects of our society -- freedom of religious conscience.

In an unprecedented move, the former Archbishop of Canterbury

Published in: Daily Mail

Britain has embarked this week on one of the oddest general election campaigns in memory.

The Labour government under Gordon Brown could hardly have a more catastrophic record to defend. It has bankrupted Britain with astronomical levels of debt.

Published in: Miscellaneous

The latest threatened public sector strike is even more juvenile than all the others.

Published in: Daily Mail