Melanie Phillips

During the recent Hamas war on Israel, it became a commonplace to hear people either promoting the idea of ‘engaging’ with the Hamas...

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The story sounds just too idiotic and outrageous to be true. A Rotherham couple, by all accounts exemplary foster parents for nearly seven years, took on two children and a baby in an emergency placement.

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Democracy demonstrators have been clashing with police on the streets of Cairo now for three days in protest at the assumption by Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi of dictatorial powers.

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Here is some more information about the Middle East which you may not have come across in the UK mainstream media.

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Once again, here’s yet more information about the war between Hamas and Israel that unaccountably you may not have come across in today’s UK mainstream media.

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So here we go again. At 9 pm this evening Israel time, a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terror groups of Gaza came into effect.

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Here’s yet more information about the war between Hamas and Israel that unaccountably you may not have come across in today’s UK mainstream media. Today’s entries are all for the Hall of Shame, which is getting mighty crowded.

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People have asked me to indicate precisely where on the BBC Radio Two Jeremy Vine show website to find my encounter yesterday with Ben Soffer of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

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Here’s some more information about the war between Hamas and Israel that unaccountably you may not have come across in today’s UK mainstream media.

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At last! The legal action set in train by Lord McAlpine against those who used Twitter to defame him looks set to achieve more than merely vindicating his unjustly damaged reputation.

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