Melanie Phillips

Archive for July 2009

  • 20 July, 2009

    The Government's 'social mobility czar', Alan Milburn, is due to tell us all this week how class barriers can finally be broken down.

    According to the advance spinning, his report will say that the rate of access to top jobs by people from disadvantaged backgrounds has got slower.

    Apparently, the former Cabin

    Published in: Daily Mail

  • 13 July, 2009

    Has there ever been a more preposterous figure than the Equalities Minister Harriet Harman?

    Scarcely a week goes by when she does not dream up another monumentally irrelevant yet intrusive or oppressive wheeze to make life in Britain that much more unjust and insufferable.

    Not content with setting herself to

    Published in: Daily Mail

  • 6 July, 2009

    The Tories are shortly to unveil a far-reaching policy to put marriage at the heart of family life.

    A high-powered team of lawyers commissioned by Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice is to issue a report later this month which is expected to shape Conservative policy on the family.

    It is said to rec

    Published in: Daily Mail

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About Melanie

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist and author. She is best known for her controversial column about political and social issues which currently appears in the Daily Mail. Awarded the Orwell Prize for journalism in 1996, she is the author of All Must Have Prizes, an acclaimed study of Britain's educational and moral crisis, which provoked the fury of educationists and the delight and relief of parents.

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Books

  • The World Turned Upside Down
  • Londonistan
  • The Ascent of Woman
  • America's Social Revolution

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Melanie Phillips
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London W8 5TT

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