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The Divided House: Women At Westminster
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Londonistan The suicide bombings carried out in London in 2005 by British Muslims revealed an alarming network of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers. Under the noses of British intelligence, London became the European hub for the promotion, recruitment and financing of Islamist terror and extremism - so much so that it has been mockingly dubbed 'Londonistan'. In this ground-breaking book, Melanie Phillips pieces together the story of how Londonistan developed as a result of the collapse of British self-confidence and national identity and its resulting paralysis by multiculturalism and appeasement. The result is an ugly climate in Britain of irrationality and defeatism, which now threatens to undermine the alliance with America and imperil the defence of the free world. The Ascent of Woman A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind it Melanie Phillips Hardback, 320 pages (March 2003) Little, Brown; ISBN: 0316725331 The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is a story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. The movement for women's suffrage in the late-19th and early 20th centuries prefigured to a startling extent the controversies which rage today around the role of women. Far from the stereotype of a uniform body of women chaining themselves to railings, the early feminist movement was riven by virulent arguments over women's role in society, the balance to be struck between self-fulfilment and their duties to family and children, and their relationship with men. Melanie Phillips' book tells the story of the fight for women's suffrage in a way which sets the high drama of those events in the context of the moral and intellectual ferment that characterised it.
America's Social
Revolution Britain suffers from apparently intractable social problems: crime, family breakdown, welfare dependency and educational failure. None of our political parties appears to have any idea of how to break into these cycles of anti-social behaviour and low achievement. Although the United States suffers from very similar social problems, the debate there has been more open. Experiments with school choice have raised education standards; accountable policing schemes have reduced crime; and, above all, initiatives designed to shore up the two-parent family have started to win people back to the importance of marriage and traditional family life. Melanie Phillips visited America to investigate whether these schemes were having an effect - and whether it is possible to drag a society back from the brink of collective suicide. This book is the account of what she found there: the development of a social revolution.
The Sex-Change
Society The Sex-Change Society issues a devastating attack on androgynous public policy, arguing that feminism has distorted its own agenda of equality by replacing it with sameness. The results are startling. Men have been demonised through a distorted view that they are intrinsically violent and feckless while all women are essentially ‘saint-like’. At the same time, women are being encouraged to work at all times, whether they want to or not. In this timely critique Melanie Phillips tells the disturbing story of the attempt to feminise the state, to reverse the roles of men and women and to run masculinity out of town altogether. The result has been an anti-family policy in which everyone has become a potential loser.
All Must Have
Prizes British education is in a state of
"meltdown". Throughout the system, from nursery classes
to degree courses, the relationship between teacher and pupil has
been undermined, and the idea that children should be taught a body
of rules at all, whether in maths or grammar, is now taboo in many
schools. Systematic instruction has given way to approximations
and guesswork, resulting in a rising tide of illiteracy. All Must
Have Prizes presents the inside story of a social debacle. The collapse
of education is not viewed in isolation; at the heart of the problem,
claims Melanie Phillips, lies cultural and moral relativism, the
doctrine that no values can be judged to be any better or worse
than any others. She regards the primary effect of this, particularly
in the last 20 years, to be the collapse of the authority of institutions.
Sounding a warning, she offers a blueprint to restore authority
and meaning to society.
Doctors’
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The Divided House:
Women at Westminster
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