Melanie Phillips

For relatives anxious about a frail loved one in hospital, few things could surely sound more reassuring than a ‘care pathway’.

Published in: Daily Mail

If Dianafication describes the descent of Britain into emotional incontinence, Borismania describes the descent of Britain into demotic derangement.

Published in: Daily Mail

If Dianafication describes the descent of Britain into emotional incontinence, Borismania describes its descent into demotic derangement..

Published in: Melanie"s blog

The deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, Simon Hughes, has told the Jewish Chronicle that the time has come to consider a ‘one-state solution’ to the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians.

Published in: Melanie's blog

Once upon a time, the Lib Dems were gently mocked as woolly, organic yogurt-eating sandal-wearers — harmless eccentrics who could be indulged because they would never get their hands on power.

Published in: Daily Mail

Mitt Romney has made some remarks at a fund-raising dinner which have apparently shocked America and the entire western world to the core.

Published in: Melanie's blog

The topless pictures that have been published of the Duchess of Cambridge are not just a repugnant invasion of her privacy.

Published in: Daily Mail

Into my inbox last week popped an email from Michelle Obama. "Thank you for an amazing week… Can you chip in $5 or more to stand with Barack today?"

Published in: Jewish Chronicle

So now we can see the terrible results of western liberal hubris, the so-called Arab Spring so credulously and stupidly brought into being by Barack Obama, David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy.

Published in: Melanie's blog

Talk about coming back down to earth with a bump! The ecstatic cheers from the Olympic crowds had not died away before the teaching unions declared they were taking industrial action.

Published in: Daily Mail

So now the crisis in relations between Obama and the state of Israel has finally blown publicly open.

Published in: Melanie's blog

Suddenly, a new ministerial shooting-star is born. Or should that be rather a new ministerial shooting-herself-in-the-foot-star, aka David Cameron’s latest self-imposed headache?

Published in: Daily Mail

Well, I now have a reply – of sorts – to the question I asked a day ago whether the new junior health minister Anna Soubry still believed, as she declared when she was only a prospective Conservative parliamentary candidate, that cannabis should be legalised.

Published in: Melanie's blog

David Cameron’s ministerial reshuffle this week has been greeted by the predictable cries of ‘a lurch to the right’ (a reaction otherwise known as a ‘jerk to the knee’).

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Who could have watched Ellie Simmonds’s astonishing gold medal win at the Paralympics without a lump in the throat?

Published in: Daily Mail

Sharp-eyed readers will have noticed that my Daily Mail column appeared this morning from the deck-chair. However, this was merely an intermission to the intermission, which now resumes until the end of the month.

Published in: Melanie's blog

What a manipulative, melodramatic, malodorous circus.

Published in: Daily Mail

I am off to put my feet up for much the rest of the month, so posts and articles will be light to non-existent -- although I may not be able to resist the odd tweet... I wish everyone a pleasant and peaceful summer.

Published in: Melanie's blog

As Team GB is cheered into the record books at the Olympics, I have been puzzling over whatever happened to Northern Ireland.

Published in: Daily Mail

Sometimes, a spotlight shone harshly into one private life can starkly illuminate a calamity for an entire society.

Published in: Daily Mail