Melanie Phillips

Against a backdrop of concern about the impact of looming public expenditure cuts, the panel were asked to name one thing they thought the police might usefully stop doing.

I suggested they should drop their obsession with 'diversity' and, rather than pursuing people under 'hate crime' laws for giving offence to othe

Published in: Daily Mail

You really do have to wonder whether the adult world any longer understands what its responsibility towards children actually entails.

Earlier this week Helen Goddard, a 26-year-old music teacher, was convicted and jailed for 15 months for having a lesbian affair with her 15-year-old pupil.

Judge Anthony Pitt

Published in: Daily Mail

One of the most startling aspects of our society at present is the way things that were once considered to be virtues have now become the object of intense disapproval, and vice versa.

A recent survey of teachers by London University's Institute of Education found that some three-quarters of them believed it was thei

Published in: Daily Mail

Once again, Britain is recoiling from the sickening spectacle of childhood innocence being turned into its monstrous antithesis.

Two young brothers aged ten and 11 from Edlington, South Yorkshire, subjected two other little boys aged nine and 11 to sadistic attack and torture, leaving one fighting for his life.

Published in: Daily Mail

The farce over doorknobs for centrifuges masks the fact that President Obama’s whole Middle East strategy is in the process of imploding.

Obama has been pressuring Israel to freeze every brick and widow-frame of all settlement construction as a precondition for the US 'getting tough' with Iran.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle