Melanie Phillips

When David Cameron was elected Conservative leader three weeks ago, he made clear that his top priority was to get the party to bump up its measly number of women MPs.

Published in: Daily Mail

When, back in the mists of time, I first started writing controversially about family breakdown (the world fell in on me because I thought children were best served by being brought up by their father and mother) there was one particular insult that was hurled my way which stood out from all the others.

'You're just an

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

The Law Commission's proposal to downgrade many killings to manslaughter would run contrary to centuries of understanding of the meaning of our most serious crime.

Published in: Daily Mail

As people rush around buying last minute Christmas presents and putting the finishing touches to the tree, some will be uneasy - as ever - that the sound of church bells is being drowned out by the din of ringing tills and that the essential Christian message of Christmas is being lost in the annual tidal wave of consumerism.

Published in: Daily Mail

During the programme, Ms Burrows said she did not believe that homosexuals should be allowed to adopt. Placing boys with two homosexuals for adoption, she said, was as obvious a risk as placing a girl with two heterosexual men who offered themselves as parents.

Published in: Daily Mail

Britain's burgeoning culture of yobbery, disorder and violent crime has left politicians wringing their hands in despair. Schools find that teaching is all but impossible given the level of disruption and violence, not just from pupils but from parents.

The jails are full to bursting.

Published in: Daily Mail

The Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt has caused general outrage by saying airily that hospitals should make patients wait up to two months longer for their operations in order to save money.

Asked if she approved of the decision by Staffordshire primary care trusts to impose a six-month wait for non-emergency surgery,

Published in: Daily Mail

When this government falls into a hole it knows exactly what to do. It digs even faster and deeper, burying more and more victims in the process.

All the evidence suggests that its sex education policy is a disaster. Britain has the highest rate of under-age teenage pregnancies in Europe.

Published in: Daily Mail