Melanie Phillips

Last Friday, more than 40 Tory MPs and peers published a letter in the Guardian calling for the introduction of state regulation of the Press.

Published in: Daily Mail

The greatest satisfaction today over the re-election of Obama is not being felt in the Democratic Party. It is not being felt among the media, who are no longer objective observers but have turned instead into corrupt partisans who ruthlessly censored the truth about Obama and helped peddle his demonising propaganda about his opponent. It is not being felt among the gloating, drooling decadents of the western left who now scent a great blood-letting of all who dare defy their secular inquisition. No, the greatest satisfaction is surely being felt in Iran.

Published in: Melanie's blog

Britain appears to be turning into a disunited kingdom of solitary and lonely people. Recent figures have shown that ever-increasing numbers of middle-aged men and women are living alone.

Published in: Daily Mail

Step by grudging step – and led by this paper – official Britain has begun to wake up to the scandal of the Liverpool Care Pathway.

Published in: Daily Mail

As predictable as the first frosts of autumn, there are shrieks of rage over the proposal to restrict Child Benefit payments to the first two children in a family.

Published in: Daily Mail

Until now, such public attention as has been devoted to the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11, in which the US ambassador to Libya and three others were murdered, has dwelt upon whether President Obama had falsely blamed the attack on violent reaction to a film about Islam even though he knew from the start that this was in fact a premeditated attack by al Qaeda.

Published in: Melanie's blog

The irrationality and prejudice inherent in the vilification of Israel are becoming ever more egregious.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

My column in last week’s Daily Mail, on the abuse of the Liverpool Care Pathway, has generated a very large response both from patients’ relatives with their own stories to tell and from doctors and other health care staff.

Published in: Melanie's blog

The Jimmy Savile scandal is fast escalating into one of the most shocking cases of a sexual predator that has ever been uncovered.

Published in: Daily Mail

Fascinating to see tiny movements on the left to attempt open up debate just a fraction on a taboo subject– and then watch the vicious response.

Published in: Melanie's blog

For relatives anxious about a frail loved one in hospital, few things could surely sound more reassuring than a ‘care pathway’.

Published in: Daily Mail

If Dianafication describes the descent of Britain into emotional incontinence, Borismania describes the descent of Britain into demotic derangement.

Published in: Daily Mail

If Dianafication describes the descent of Britain into emotional incontinence, Borismania describes its descent into demotic derangement..

Published in: Melanie"s blog

The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, has told the Jewish Chronicle that the time has come to consider a ‘one-state solution’ to the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians.

Published in: Melanie's blog

Once upon a time, the Lib Dems were gently mocked as woolly, organic yogurt-eating sandal-wearers — harmless eccentrics who could be indulged because they would never get their hands on power.

Published in: Daily Mail

Mitt Romney has made some remarks at a fund-raising dinner which have apparently shocked America and the entire western world to the core.

Published in: Melanie's blog

The topless pictures that have been published of the Duchess of Cambridge are not just a repugnant invasion of her privacy.

Published in: Daily Mail

Into my inbox last week popped an email from Michelle Obama. "Thank you for an amazing week… Can you chip in $5 or more to stand with Barack today?"

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

So now we can see the terrible results of western liberal hubris, the so-called Arab Spring so credulously and stupidly brought into being by Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy.

Published in: Melanie's blog

Talk about coming back down to earth with a bump! The ecstatic cheers from the Olympic crowds had not died away before the teaching unions declared they were taking industrial action.

Published in: Daily Mail