Melanie Phillips

So Molotov and Ribbentrop are alive and well and living in Gaza and Ramallah. The pact between Fatah and Hamas is of course a marriage of convenience, forged solely to help fool the world into accepting a de facto state of Palestine.

Published in: Melanie's Blog

While we’re on the subject of the baffling incoherence of western attitudes towards the uprisings in the Islamic world, we must not overlook the massacre that took place earlier this month of members of the Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), at their base in Ashraf in I

Published in: Melanie's Blog

The British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has said that Britain and Europe will push for sanctions against Syria if it continues to use viol

Published in: Melanie's Blog

So now we are all finally able to see just why Britain’s capital came to be known contemptuously as ‘Londonistan’.

Published in: Daily Mail

Spring, when the trees are in bud and green shoots are thrusting up from the earth, is the season when life robustly reasserts itself.

Yet in the past few weeks we have been assailed by a relentless stream of stories about people wanting to be helped to die.

Published in: Daily Mail

A wedding is an occasion where good manners require one not to carp, in keeping with the spirit of the happy occasion.

Actually, weddings are occasions where everyone carps like mad — about the venue, the relatives, the bride’s mother’s outfit — but generally behind their hands.

Published in: Daily Mail

A major newspaper poll published at the weekend revealed something that should surprise no one — that an overwhelming majority of people believe Britain has gone soft on law and order.

They are particularly upset that imprisonment is now so regularly replaced by community punishments.

Published in: Daily Mail