Melanie Phillips

Archive for June 2009

  • 29 June, 2009

    For weeks now, Britain has been consumed by a crisis over public sector excess. Revelations of MPs flipping allowances and claiming for duck-houses have changed the course of politics.

    Published in: Daily Mail

  • 26 June, 2009

    Among American Jews, a degree of 'buyers’ remorse' has been detected recently.

    Almost 80 per cent of American Jews voted for Barack Obama as President. Those of us who warned that this man would endanger Israel were scorned.

    How could that possibly be, said the secular, liberal American Jews.

    Published in: Jewish Chronicle

  • 22 June, 2009

    So is today the day when Parliament is to be saved? Don't put money on it.

    As the House of Commons chooses a new Speaker in the most important election of the post's 600-year history, there are still precious few signs that, even after everything that's happened, MPs really grasp how fundamentally the political lands

    Published in: Daily Mail

  • 15 June, 2009

    A ghastly blunder at an NHS fertility clinic has left two sets of prospective parents devastated.

    A couple who had already produced one son through in vitro fertilisation decided four years later to have another child by using the last viable embryo of nine which had been created and which was stored at an NHS clinic

    Published in: Daily Mail

  • 8 June, 2009

    There has been a political coup.

    Published in: Daily Mail

  • 1 June, 2009

    As Gordon Brown voyages towards the farther shores of Planet Denial, responding to the corruption of Parliament by pledging bizarrely to clean up all public institutions such as the NHS and the BBC, his fellow MPs appear to be not far behind him.

    With talk of unseating the Prime Minister growing ever louder, Health S

    Published in: Daily Mail

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About Melanie

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial column about political and social issues which currently appears in the Daily Mail. Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, an acclaimed study of Britain's educational and moral crisis, which provoked the fury of educationists and the delight and relief of parents.

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Books

  • The World Turned Upside Down
  • Londonistan
  • The Ascent of Woman
  • America's Social Revolution

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Melanie Phillips
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London W8 5TT

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