Melanie Phillips

Hard on the heels of last week's control order fiasco comes the news that the Government is planning to introduce yet another Draconian security measure.

The police may be given the power to interrogate individuals about who they are, where they have been and where they are going.

Published in: Daily Mail

The primary duty of any government is to protect its citizens. In any normal society, people who are thought to be dangerous are jailed. Those suspected of terrorist leanings are either locked up or, if they are foreign nationals, thrown out of the country.

But not in Britain.

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When the Tories' education spokesman David Willetts made his speech last week about grammar schools, the Tory high command must have hugged themselves in glee at their own cleverness.

Buoyed by the apparent success of their strategy to detoxify the party in the minds of hostile voters by spinning it as tolerant, touc

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First of all, let me define my terms and say what I mean by Islamism and liberalism. Islamism is the politicised version of Islam which mandates jihad, or holy war against the infidel and conquest of the non-Islamic world for Islam.

Published in: Miscellaneous

People who wonder why the police are not doing more to prevent crime and arrest criminals might rub their eyes at claims made yesterday by the Police Federation.

It would seem that one reason why there never seems to be a police officer around when you are being mugged or your house is being burgled is that our polic

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Just what was that ghostly and unfamiliar noise we heard over the weekend? Good heavens -- it was the sound of a country's political leader actually exercising leadership.

The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, ordered his nation's cricket team to pull out of a scheduled tour of Zimbabwe in September, and even t

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This week, Tony Blair will finally announce his timetable for stepping down as Prime Minister.

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The ending of the Al Qaeda fertiliser bomb plot trial has posed crucial questions about the competence of MI5.

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