Melanie Phillips

The first female member of the Law Lords, Dame Brenda Hale, held a press conference last week.

Published in: Daily Mail

When Margaret Hodge was made Minister for Children in June, a lot of people could scarcely believe what was happening.

For it was Mrs Hodge who, as leader of Islington council from 1982 to 1992, spectacularly failed to deal with a paedophile ring abusing children in her council's care.

Published in: Daily Mail

The Prince of Wales has flown back from his tour of India and Oman into the very eye of the storm. The claim made by his former servant George Smith about the Prince's private life is now circulating on the internet, in the Scottish, Irish and Italian press and around the world.

Published in: Daily Mail

The British Conservative party has elected Michael Howard as its first Jewish leader - and potential Prime Minister - since Benjamin Disraeli led the Tories in the 19th century.

This has occurred when much of the Jewish community in Britain feels besieged by an upsurge of anti-Jewish hatred.

Published in: Miscellaneous

One man dressed in a Spiderman outfit has single-handedly been bringing chaos to central London.

Published in: Daily Mail

According to the government, cannabis is no more dangerous than slimming pills or tranquillisers.

Published in: Daily Mail

What on earth is the anxious parent to make of all this? Dr Simon Murch, one of the team from London's Royal Free Hospital which first revealed parental concerns about a possible link between the MMR vaccine, bowel disease and autism in children, now says the vaccine is perfectly safe.

Since that original paper was publ

Published in: Daily Mail

A few months ago, I wrote in this space about the lamentable failure by Israel to get its case across.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

While all eyes have been fixed upon the skies by Concorde's last flight and upon the psychiatric ward by the nervous breakdown engulfing both the Conservative party and the Royal Family, the issue that people care about far more - the government's failure to control illegal immigration - continues to stagger from crass inepti

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The simmering tension between America and what it contemptuously calls 'old Europe' is today expected to boil over once again. At an extraordinary meeting called at NATO's Brussels headquarters, the US ambassador and his French counterpart are heading for a slanging match over the proposed European defence force.

Published in: Daily Mail

Tony is fighting Gordon while fending off Robin and Clare and trying to shaft Geoff while Jack beats him up about David.

Published in: Melanie's Blog

Excuse me, there must be some mistake - I can't have heard the name correctly.

Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary, has said the government has undervalued women who stay at home to bring up their children instead of going out to work.

Published in: Daily Mail

A hundred years ago, one of the most extraordinary and controversial women ever to have emerged in British public life launched a violent crusade to transform the sexual and political landscape.

Egged on by her daughter Christabel, on October 10 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst summoned a group of women to her house in Mancheste

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The most astonishing thing about the revelation of our sordid and debauched football culture is that anyone is astonished.

Worshippers of the football cult are apparently shocked by the degradation of their so-called 'beautiful game'.

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The Tories have started their party conference in the manner of actors striking a set of stirring poses while behind the scenes the props are disintegrating, the script is being constantly rewritten and the whole company is trying to throw the director out of the stage door. The persistent failure by Iain Duncan S

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One of the most widespread and disturbing assumptions of our age is that if people suffer from any disadvantage, privation or adversity, they must by definition be victims of someone else. Well, sometimes they are, but sometimes they aren't.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

An eminent Danish psychologist has provoked a furore by saying poor women should be paid to stop having children, in order to increase the proportion of intelligent people in the population.

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Published in: Miscellaneous

Tony Blair has come out fighting.

Published in: Daily Mail

Everyone knows, after all, that Mr Blair is a liar. We wouldn't believe him, would we, if he told us the time. Everyone knows he made up the threat from Saddam's weapons of mass destruction because none has been found, and if something isn't found then it proves that it never existed.

Published in: Melanie's Blog