Melanie Phillips

Even by the jaw-dropping standards of government incompetence to which we have sadly become so accustomed, this one surely takes the humdinging biscuit.

The Home Office, it turns out, has managed to lose 916 prisoners during the past seven years.

Published in: Daily Mail

The Prime Minister would apparently have to include in his list of adversaries his own youth justice adviser Professor Rod Morgan, who says children are being 'demonised' by ASBOs -- a curious view, since getting on for half of those who are served with them apparently ignore them, and many even regard them as a badge of hono

Published in: Daily Mail

Published in: Miscellaneous

So in the end, it's the publisher who's had the last laugh.

Published in: Daily Mail

It is always exciting when a spymaster emerges from the shadows. A buzz is created from our vicarious entry to a glamorous secret world of privileged confidences and derring-do.

But whenever they do thus emerge, the sense of anticipation is almost invariably disappointed.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

The despairing words of Damilola Taylor's father said it all. As the Old Bailey jury found the youths accused of killing his son not guilty of murder and then failed to agree on whether they were guilty of manslaughter, he put his head in his hands and said to his wife, 'This is rubbish. This is a mess.

Published in: Daily Mail

Our politicians have been caught with their hands deep in the electoral till. So what's their reaction? Why, to get out their crowbars and smash the till!

The cash for peerages row has exposed the way in which the political class has been merrily subverting democracy.

Published in: Daily Mail

Rock star Suzi Quatro, who scandalised parents back in the seventies with her raunchy biker image, releases a new album at the distinctly un-raunchy age of 55. Recently the Rolling Stones, fronted by 62 year-old Sir Mick Jagger, packed a million people into their concert in Rio de Janeiro on their sell-out world tour.

Published in: Daily Mail