Melanie Phillips

Europe at the edge of the abyss?

Melanie Phillips — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:24:55 +0000

In an impassioned piece in that fine and feisty on-line newspaper The Commentator, Robin Shepherd sets out the stark case that Europe may now be staring at the end of democracy.

'Fakegate' -- the new nadir of the climate change swindle

Melanie Phillips — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:43:30 +0000

You thought ‘Climategate’, the data manipulation/shady practices scandal at the high temple of anthropogenic global warming theory, East Anglia’s Climatic Research Centre, marked the nadir of the whole AGW swindle? Think again.

When a seven year-old is branded a bigot

Melanie Phillips — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:04:06 +0000

The word ‘Orwellian’ has become over-used to the point of cliche. Yet there is really no other way to describe the deeply sinister, upside-down onslaught upon common sense that has extended even into the school playgrounds of politically correct Britain.

Mr Cameron reels in Scotland

Melanie Phillips — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:11:36 +0000

Whatever one may think about David Cameron’s policies, the general view is that he is an adroit politician. How extraordinary, then, that he should have got himself into such an invidious position with his meeting yesterday with the Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond.

Middle Britain's amoral drift

Melanie Phillips — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:01:12 +0000

An invitation to appear as a Question Time panellist always sees your columnist dusting off her tin helmet, not to say donning full body armour and making her last will and testament.

Stopping the rot in the universities

Melanie Phillips — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:31:04 +0000

You may not think it to look at him, but the mild and courteous Michael Gove is fast coming to resemble a black belt in martial arts. Maybe he has been having lessons on the quiet.

The prisoner's dilemma

Melanie Phillips — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:35:47 +0000

So what should be done in Britain about foreign terrorist suspects and the European Court of Human Rights?

The compelling case against Ed Davey

Melanie Phillips — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:30:44 +0000

True to my warning yesterday in the Daily Mail, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has dashed the naive hope that he would end the Coalition’s suicidal green fanaticism and return Britain to Planet Reality over man-made global warming.

A chance for David Cameron to end the climate change madness

Melanie Phillips — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:20:37 +0000

With remarkably prescient timing, more than 100 Tory MPs have written to the Prime Minister demanding that the £400 million-a-year subsidies paid to the onshore wind turbine industry should be ‘dramatically cut’.

Time to delegitimise the UN

Melanie Phillips — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:06:37 +0000

Upwards of 200 people are reported to have been massacred in Syria in the latest in a series of atrocities in that country which have left thousands of people dead as President Bashar al-Assad ruthlessly clings to power. Yet the UN has failed to act.

How to deal with the appeasers of genocide

Melanie Phillips — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:38:27 +0000

This YouTube video of the British writer Douglas Murra

The other Britain

Melanie Phillips — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:01:25 +0000

Last Thursday night I was on BBC TV’s Question Time in Plymouth, which you can view here. The last question on the show came from a woman who asked whether, ‘since Israel has many more nuclear weapons than Iran’, we should agree with President Obama’s statement that no option (in other words, war with Iran) should be ruled out.

Why does the ailing west aid its Islamist enemies?

Melanie Phillips — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:23:35 +0000

Was there ever a more perverse and self-destructive society than the contemporary West? In its attitude to the Middle East and the Islamic world, it appears to suffer from the political equivalent of auto-immune disease: turning on its allies while embracing its enemies.

The police have lost their way but the answer isn't to let them be run by meddlers like Prescott

Melanie Phillips — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:12:19 +0000

As has long been clear, something seems to have gone very badly wrong with the culture of British policing. While many police officers do a sterling job in preventing crime and promoting public tranquillity, barely a week goes past without some fresh revelation of gross incompetence or allegation of cronyism — or even corruption — by the police.

Why Iran will not ‘come to its senses’

Melanie Phillips — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:23:46 +0000

War with Iran is a truly fearsome prospect. Its likely consequences would include attacks on US air bases from thousands of Iranian missiles, the unleashing of terrorist attacks within the US and Europe, the rocketing of Israeli towns from the tens of thousands of missiles trained on Israel from Lebanon, the closing of the Straits of Hormuz thus paralysing western oil supplies, and doubtless other horrors.