Melanie Phillips

I am currently sporting a plaster cast on my left arm which is further encased in a sling. People wonder solicitously whether I have been attacked by enraged human-rights lawyers or serial adulterers. Alas, the truth is rather less heroic.

Published in: Melanie's Blog

The Gambling Bill is rapidly turning into a train wreck. There is widespread concern and disgust among religious and charitable organisations, and overwhelming opposition from the public.

Published in: Daily Mail

The question 'When did you stop beating your wife?' is a well known rhetorical device to illustrate the impossible situation in which whatever answer someone gives traps them into an admission of guilt.

Now the government appears to have updated this for the modern era with the question: 'When did you stop getting beat

Published in: Daily Mail

The Home Secretary let it be known this week that he intends to abolish the law of blasphemy, at the same time as introducing a new crime of incitement to religious hatred.

Abolishing blasphemy is long overdue.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

Today's Tomlinson report on education for 14-19 year-olds is supposed to conjure up a solution to the problems enmeshing GCSE and A-level. But in truth, it is more likely to presage the destruction of the very concept of examinations and of education itself.

Published in: Daily Mail

You really don't know whether to laugh or cry. Tristram Jones-Parry is headmaster of Westminster, one of this country's most formidable independent schools and where Euan and Nicky Blair received private coaching.

Published in: Daily Mail

What a commentary on our political culture.

Published in: Daily Mail

Three years ago, a handful of gypsy families moved onto land they bought in Chichester, West Sussex, in open defiance of the planning laws.

Published in: Daily Mail