Melanie Phillips

As British Airways and Unite bicker about the impact of the cabin crew strike, those of us above a certain age might be forgiven for having a bleakly distinct sense of deja-vu.

It's beginning to feel horribly like the dreary Sixties and Seventies when life was regularly blighted by strikes, three-day weeks, shortages

Published in: Daily Mail

The Obama administration's fury at Israel over the 'insult to the US' of building more homes in east Jerusalem has provoked what is described as the worst crisis in US-Israel relations for more than three decades.

Leave aside, for the moment, the notable absence of 'insult to the US' caused by the Palestinian Authori

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

Like revivalists from an alternative universe, 2500 hardcore believers in the absence of religion packed into the Global Atheists Convention in Melbourne last weekend to give a hero's welcome to the high priest of belief in unbelief, Richard Dawkins.

The bestselling author of The God Delusion was similarly f

Published in: Miscellaneous

After the Night Of The Long Knives (the immortal term for the axeing of Cabinet ministers in the Sixties), is the hapless British electorate to be subjected to the Fight Of The Leaders' Wives?

Last night, Samantha Cameron was unveiled to the nation as her husband David's not-so-secret electoral weapon.

In a T

Published in: Daily Mail

Almost every day now, fresh claims are surfacing in the media about why Jon Venables, one of the pair who murdered toddler James Bulger, has broken the terms of his licence and been sent to prison.

The latest is that he was involved in some kind of sexual offence, possibly relating to child pornography.

There

Published in: Daily Mail

The British Tories are in a state of finger-gnawing nerves.

Published in: Miscellaneous

Once again, the alarm is being sounded over family disintegration and the apparently unstoppable rise of lone parenthood and mass fatherlessness.

Support for marriage looks set to become an election issue.

Published in: Daily Mail