Melanie Phillips

People say thatyou can measure how civilised a country is by the way it treats its dead.

Published in: Daily Mail

Human rights fall squarely into the category of motherhood and apple pie. Who could be against them? No-one is going to argue, are they, in favour of oppression, tyranny or bigotry.

That’s what makes the problem of human rights law so difficult for politicians to deal with.

Published in: Daily Mail

Would anyone ever have imagined that one day it would become illegal in Britain to teach children to follow precepts laid down in the Bible? Or that a priest, a rabbi or an imam might fall foul of the law by refusing to bless a sexual union between same–sex couples?

Yet that appears to be precisely what may happen

Published in: Daily Mail

Three years ago, I wrote a proposal for a book about the alarming resurgence of anti-Jewish feeling in Britain, the way this had been taken up by the left and the fact that this was undermining Britain's ability to defend itself against global Islamist terrorism.

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

The sense of shock in Canada following the arrest of 17 Muslims charged with plotting acts of terror against their fellow Canadians rings a horribly familiar bell in Britain.

In the wake of the London bombings last July by young British Muslims, Britons have found it hard to accept that boys who had been born in Britain

Published in: Miscellaneous

Once may be an accident; twice begins to look like a systemic fault-line. For the second time, the Metropolitan Police and the security service have egg all over their faces in the fight against Islamist terrorism.

Published in: Daily Mail

One of the arguments against permitting mercy killing has always been the slippery slope scenario.

Published in: Daily Mail

Suddenly, the Education Secretary Alan Johnson, who boldly put himself forward yesterday for the job of deputy Prime Minister, is being talked up as front runner for the post.

Published in: Daily Mail

After 9/11 plotter Zacarias Moussaoui was sentenced to life im prisonment, his family blamed - the British.

Published in: Miscellaneous