Melanie Phillips

The extraordinary leaked email from the British Consul in Bucharest has fanned the smouldering row over immigration policy into a full-blown conflagration.

For the issue is no longer whether it was or was not official policy to cut corners in order to tackle the immense backlog of immigration cases.

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Nothing illustrates the shallowness of the Prime Minister's grasp of the British national interest and Parliamentary democracy better than his astonishing attitude towards the EU constitution.

He has now indicated that he intends to shoehorn this through Parliament with unseemly haste.

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In the middle of the most alarming terrorist threat in the country's history, producing jittery warnings to be vigilant at all times, two anti-war demonstrators managed to scale Big Ben at the weekend under the noses of the police.

With the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens claiming that Britain's anti-t

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The Spanish election result is quite simply a catastrophe for democrats and lovers of peace and freedom all over the world. Following the carnage in Madrid, 11 million Spaniards marched in apparent solidarity against terror.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

On the videotape which purported to claim responsibility by al Q'aeda for the carnage in Madrid, one line in particular sounded an absolutely chilling and authentic note. 'You love life', said the speaker, 'and we love death'.

Last night, the shattered citizens of Spain threw out their government.

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It is an odd fact that, despite his reputation for supremely manipulative political skills, the Prime Minister has made such a poor fist of selling his case for the war against Iraq.

Those who are anti-war may say it's because he took the country to war on a lie.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

Almost without notice by the public, an astonishing proposal to falsify sexual identity and make criminals out of people who tell the truth about it is on the way to being approved by Parliament.

Tomorrow, the Gender Recognition Bill which gives rights to transsexuals - people who believe they belong to the opposite sex

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Sending someone to prison is supposed to achieve various things. It acts as a deterrent, protects the public, and (hopefully) trains inmates for a more law- abiding life. But at its very core, the purpose of prison is to punish.

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The crisis of credibility over the government's case for war against Iraq appears to be deepening by the day. Demands are mounting for the Attorney-General, Lord Goldsmith, to publish his full opinion on whether the war was legal.

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