Melanie Phillips

Once again, our democratically elected politicians find that their hands have been tied and their wishes thwarted by the edict of a foreign court.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has upheld the claim by the convicted murderer Dennis Stafford that the decision by the former Home Secretary Jack St

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The day after the Home Affairs Select Committee produced its recent report on drugs policy, I happened to speak in a debate on the subject.

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Just in case anyone doubted that youth crime is out of control, a new survey illustrates the alarming extent of the crisis.

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What is it with the Tories? How can a bunch of experienced politicians from what was once the most formidable election-winning machine in the world be so persistently and pathetically losing the plot?

This week we were treated to a stunt in which Iain Duncan Smith was photographed taking part in a football match

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Here we go again. On Thursday, the House of Commons is expected to vote on a government-backed amendment to the adoption bill, which will remove the bar on unmarried couples becoming joint adoptive parents.

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At first blush, the murdered Dutch maverick Pim Fortuyn and I would not appear to have been natural bedfellows. He was, after all, a flamboyant post-Marxist gay libertarian who advocated sexual permissiveness, casual drug use and euthanasia.

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France is today breathing a sigh of relief. As predicted, Jacques Chirac has won the French election, buoyed up by the votes of his opponents on the left who were determined to defeat the neo-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen.

In the event, Le Pen did less well than was feared.

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