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A most deplorable analogy

February 14, 2017February 14, 2017 Melanie

I have one or two strong things to say about an invidious comparison currently being made – not least by those who, of all people, should know better… Transcript follows beneath the video below. In 2015, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel flung open her country’s doors to the great tide of migrants pouring into Europe. They came from war zones such as Syria, from other tyrannies or rogue states. Talk about buyer’s remorse! Mrs Merkel recently told her party, the Christian Democrats: “For the next few months, what matters most is…

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Dubs rule put child refugees at greater risk

February 14, 2017 Melanie

It is nauseating that the Holocaust is being used as an emotional bludgeon, so that anyone who supports restrictions on today’s migrants is not only attacked as a heartless monster but also for somehow betraying the memory of the victims of Nazism. In fact this analogy itself diminishes the Holocaust — no less unforgivably because among those making it are Jews themselves. To read my full article in The Times (subscription only) please click here.

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Hysteria, double standards and sheer bad manners

February 10, 2017 Melanie

Join me below as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Video Network the attempt by Speaker Bercow to defend Parliament against the Barbarian One scaling its walls, Trump Derangement Syndrome (continued) and British Prime Minister Theresa May’s challenge to Jeremy Corbyn over the travel bans against Israelis in the Arab world.

Brexit, Yemen and Speaker Bercow

February 7, 2017February 7, 2017 Melanie

Listen below to The Times podcast, where I discuss with colleagues Philip Collins, Michael Savage and Matt Chorley the way Brexit has taken over British political life, arming the Saudis in Yemen and the outburst by the Commons Speaker John Bercow against President Trump addressing Parliament (which no-one has invited him to do).

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Our arms sales help keep Iran’s plots in check

February 7, 2017February 7, 2017 Melanie

The war in Yemen, however, poses yet more complex questions. Holding our noses to ally with unpleasant and illiberal regimes against Islamist terror might well be in Britain’s national interest. But Saudi Arabia is the originator of the Wahhabi extremist ideology which gave rise to the Sunni Islamist onslaught against the free world in the first place. So how can the West regard it as its ally against Islamist extremism? The answer should be a dual response: ban all Saudi-funded activity in Britain, but ally with the desert kingdom against…

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Diaspora Jews lose the moral plot

February 3, 2017February 3, 2017 Melanie

Why are so many Jews currently getting some crucial things so desperately wrong? President Trump’s immigration order has provoked worldwide hysteria to which Jewish leaders in the US and Britain have unfortunately contributed. With the exception of the Zionist Organization of America which strongly supported the order, lay and religious US Jewish bodies have denounced it with some comparing it to restrictions on Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism. In Britain, the Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush said it was a “message taken as a gesture of evil intent toward Muslims…

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Fireworks in the Maze

February 2, 2017February 7, 2017 Melanie

A new series of BBC Radio’s The Moral Maze started last night. Click here to listen to me battling it out with those who say President Donald Trump is the most vile and despicable leader on earth bar none – and then call him deranged. A calm stroll through the Maze this was not!

The vicar’s daughter and the volatile vulgarian

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Melanie

Join me here as I marvel at the special relationship between the English vicar’s daughter and the volatile vulgarian in the White House, and speculate how this could usher in a new era of western renewal. If you’d like to read the remarks I make on this video, the transcript follows below. It had seemed impossible that Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May and the American President Donald Trump would have anything in common. The shy, reserved, utterly English vicar’s daughter and the garish and volatile vulgarian, who resembles a human…

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The media war against Donald Trump

January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 Melanie

At the end of Donald Trump’s first week in office, any hope that the tumult he had provoked would settle down has been dashed. The new President shocked his opponents to the core once again by breaking with all known political convention and proceeding instantly to set in train what he had promised the American people he would do. From the moment he got his feet under the Oval Office desk, he produced a stream of executive orders: building the wall on the Mexican border, penalising sanctuary cities, clearing the…

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Cant and humbug over Brexit and Parliament

January 25, 2017January 26, 2017 Melanie

It is now apparently axiomatic that yesterday’s UK Supreme Court Brexit judgment, which said there must be Parliamentary legislation before ministers trigger Article 50 and start Britain’s exit from the EU, has reaffirmed the sovereignty of Parliament over the attempt by government ministers to take away British rights in an undemocratic way. This has been said over and over again by Remainers supporting the legal case against the government. Did they want to stop Brexit? Good Lord no, of course not, hand on heart; their only concern, and it was…