Melanie Phillips

The stench is becoming overpowering.

Political sleaze scandals are raining down upon us like the unstoppable effluent from a burst sewage pipe.

The leader of the Labour group in the Scottish Parliament, Wendy Alexander, resigned at the weekend over failing to declare donations to her leadership campaign, foll

Published in: Daily Mail

On September 30 2000, two days after Ariel Sharon, then the leader of Israel's opposition Likud Party, went for a walk on Temple Mount, Palestinians mounted a demonstration at Gaza's Netzarim Junction.

Published in: Miscellaneous

The runes are being read -- and from their mysteriously coded message some discern the dim outline of a Tory shift back to common sense over selection in schools.

On a visit last week to Trafford, which maintains both selective and comprehensive schools, the Tory schools spokesman Michael Gove declared robustly that

Published in: Daily Mail

Leaving sensitive office files on the train where you've been reading them is an act of carelessness. For it to happen on two occasions in near-identical circumstances is...

Published in: Daily Mail

Cup your ears. What is that sound we are suddenly picking up on the bush telegraph?

It is the distant but unmistakable trumpeting of the elephant in the room.

Published in: Daily Mail

To the Labour Party, the National Health Service is the talismanic proof of its own moral superiority.

Time and again, Labour brandishes its undying commitment to the NHS as the embodiment of its social conscience, and vilifies anyone who suggests that a different system of health care might be better as a heartless

Published in: Daily Mail

Are American Jews the equivalent of chickens voting for Shabbat*?

They have persuaded themselves that Barack Obama is a friend of the Jewish people, because Obama put his hand on his heart and swore undying friendship to the state of Israel.

The fact that for 20 years he belonged to a 'black power' church who

Published in: Jewish Chronicle