Melanie Phillips

We are now in the height of summer, and guess what? It’s been very hot. Hardly a cause for amazement, surely.

But strangely, this seems to be just about the last thing that those providing the essentials of life in this country expect. When the sun beats down, it’s not just people who start to wilt.

Published in: Daily Mail

When New Labour came to power in 1997, a battle royal took place within its ranks over the issue of the family.

In one camp was Tony Blair, who understood that family breakdown was the hole at the heart of British society and who wanted to strengthen the two-parent family.

Published in: Daily Mail

Published in: Miscellaneous

To believe otherwise is to run the risk of being branded a ‘conspiracy theorist’, a small step away from being lumped together with the kind of people who think that crop circles are designed by visitors from Mars or that Princess Diana was murdered by MI5.

Published in: Daily Mail

So where is everyone?

Throughout the US and in countries around the world, Jews have been holding demonstrations and making public statements to express their solidarity with Israel at this heart-stopping time.

At last, this weekend the Board of Deputies is finally holding a rally in support of Israel.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

Rarely can the impotence of what is supposed to be the most powerful group of people in the world have been placed in sharper focus.

The G8 meeting taking place in the Russian city of St Petersburg is sporting a particularly vintage crop of winged and lame-duck politicians.

Published in: Daily Mail

She thought men were the waste products of the reproductive process and wanted them eliminated. Her ideal method was asexual reproduction -- the creation of children without a man involved.

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Published in: Miscellaneous

The photograph said it all. It looked like the picture of a proud grandmother cradling her newborn grandson. But no —this 62 year-old woman was the new baby’s mother.

Published in: Daily Mail

The day after tomorrow, Britain commemorates a sombre anniversary that is also ringing the loudest of alarm bells. On year on from last July’s London bombings by two groups of British Muslim boys, the mortal threat to Britain from Islamist terror appears to have increased many times over.

Published in: Daily Mail