Melanie Phillips

Is the Obama administration using either leaks or black propaganda to sabotage Israel’s defence against the threat of genocide?

Published in: Daily Mail

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have doubtless been bemused by a rumbling controversy over whether or not the Anglo-Jewish leadership comprises what Isi Leibler derided as "trembling Israelites".

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

Rogue operative? Not a bit of it. Anyone wondering just how the Conservative party could have appointed as its Co-Treasurer a man who offered access to the Prime Minister at private dinners and other privileged contacts in return for party donations of £250,000 will have had their answer from the jaw-dropping interview on this morning’s BBC Radio Today programme with the Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude.

Published in: Daily Mail

Suddenly, it’s deja vu all over again. Just when we thought the ‘cash for access’ scandal was a thing of the past, that particular abuse has once more reared its unsavoury head.

Published in: Daily Mail

When the Toulouse school massacre happened, the media rushed to say that the perpetrator was a white far-right racist. The lone gunman had mowed down at close range a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school, wounding several others.

Published in: Daily Mail

The Chancellor, George Osborne, will reportedly announce in Wednesday’s Budget an immediate end to national pay bargaining, giving government departments new powers to set localised wage rates.

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In 2009, the Obama administration began instructing gun storeowners to break the law by selling firearms to suspected criminals.

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The UK Prime Minister David Cameron this week told a state dinner thrown by the President of the United States in his honour that Barack Obama had ‘pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world’. Is that so?

Published in: Daily Mail

The Lib Dems have never been thought of as particularly grown-up politicians. Indeed, since theirs is the party of permanent protest (whose accidental presence in government suggests that someone up above has a penchant for satire) they are identified with one infantile idea after another.

Published in: Daily Mail

Anyone who remains blissfully unaware of what passes in Britain for debate about Iran might like to listen to Wednesday evening’s edition of BBC Radio Four’s The Moral Maze, on which I am a regular panellist.

Published in: Daily Mail