Melanie Phillips

Today, the Prime Minister is to announce a number of important, bold and radical welfare reforms. We know they are important, bold and radical because a series of carefully placed leaks to the weekend press took care to tell us so.

Published in: Daily Mail

Travelling in America last week, I found American Jews shaking their heads in amazement at what they considered to be the supine attitude of the British Jewish leadership towards Israel demonisation and the inroads made by Islamic radicalism.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

Much excitement over the political implications of Education Secretary Michael Gove’s stunning decision, leaked to the Daily Mail, to scrap the 16+ GCSE exam and bring back in its place the academic O-Level and more vocational CSE.

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Young people caught burgling houses or committing grievous bodily harm should be spared criminal prosecution to prevent their futures being blighted, says a government adviser.Ok, he didn’t say that.

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As if we all didn’t have enough on our plate at present, in three days time an estimated tens of thousands of GPs and hospital doctors are planning to walk out on strike.

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Some years ago, on a fact-finding trip to Munich, I visited the nearby site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. It was an unsettling and disturbing experience, beyond being brought up against the horrors that had taken place there.

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One of the most shocking aspects of the campaign to demonise and delegitimise the state of Israel is the part played in this diabolical endeavour by Jewish and Israeli academics on the political left.

Published in: Melanie's blog

What a fantastic, glorious, emotional, quite overwhelming spectacle. It wasn’t just that it was flawlessly executed. It wasn’t just that, as billed in advance, it would provide a sight that people would never have seen before. It was also a triumphant restatement and reaffirmation of a Britain that people love so deeply but which so many fear may have been lost forever.

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Thank goodness for Michael Gove. In a bravura performance at the Leveson inquiry into press ethics, he got it absolutely right.

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In the wake of the festival of Shavuot, when Jews have been celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai from where he presented them to the Jewish people camped at its foot, I have been brooding over the fact that Zionism has become a dirty word in Britain and the west.

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The jailing by Pakistan of the doctor who led the CIA to bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad is clearly an outrage. The Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi who has been thrown into prison for 33 years for treason, should be regarded as a national and global hero for helping run bin Laden finally to earth.

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We can now all see, can’t we, with what fathomless contempt the Obama administration treats the security of America and the west.

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Maybe if the Prime Minister raised his eyes for a moment from playing Fruit Ninja on his iPad, and also paused from adoring at the shrine of the Blessed Barack, he should look behind him and worry.

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On and on it goes, this deranged vendetta against Israel and the Jews that we are not allowed to call by its proper name, on and on with obsessional intensity into ever-more alarming and astonishing bigotry and violence that is even now passing virtually without comment in wider British society.

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Every once in a while, something emerges into the public eye which stops you in your tracks for a much needed reality check.

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The recent elections here and in Europe have left Jews and all who care about freedom and democracy with many reasons for unease.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

So now we can see the outcome of the witch-hunt against ‘Islamophobia’. With the conviction yesterday of nine men for organised sexual crimes from rape to sex trafficking, the full horrific details of more than two decades of sexual violence against young, predominantly white girls living in children’s homes in the north of England have been revealed.

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Are girls getting meaner? The headmistress of an independent school certainly thinks so, and she claims that the cause lies in Facebook and celebrity culture.

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Britain's Education Secretary Michael Gove has received many plaudits – and not a few brickbats -- for the dogged and determined way in which he is pursuing his aim of rescuing Britain’s education system from the swamp of ideological insanity and professional demoralisation into which it has long fallen.

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People seem surprised that the idea of elected mayors has received such a thumbs-down from yesterday’s local elections and referenda on the proposed post for individual cities. Personally, I’m not surprised at all.

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