Melanie Phillips

The report card handed out by Ofsted this week to those who teach citizenship in our schools makes devastating reading— but in ways that are far deeper and even more alarming than might at first appear.

Citizenship lessons, say the school inspectors, are unsatisfactory in a quarter of schools, with only a minority

Published in: Daily Mail

The National Health Service is the Labour Party's ultimate totemic issue.

Published in: Daily Mail

The urgent damage limitation exercise mounted by the Vatican appears to have had some effect.

Yesterday's careful statement by the Pope, in which he expressed regret for the way in which his remarks had been misinterpreted by the Muslim world, seems to have taken some of the more dangerous steam out of that reaction

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Such concern is often expressed about patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), but until now this has been pooh-poohed by doctors as fanciful and alarmist.

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Throughout last month, what was that deafening sound emanating from Britain’s Jewish community as the world convulsed over the Lebanon war? Silence.

Six weeks ago, I wrote on this page about the failure of British Jews to rebut the wholly unwarranted charge of Israel’s ‘disproportionate’ response to the attac

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

How long will it be before Christianity becomes illegal in Britain? This is no longer the utterly absurd and offensive question that on first blush it would appear to be.

An evangelical Christian campaigner, Stephen Green, was arrested and charged last weekend with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or beh

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The hamlet of Mark Cross, deep in rural East Sussex, is a quintessentially English village.

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