Melanie Phillips



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Full name: Melanie Phillips

Area of interest: Society and Values

Journals/Organisation: The Times |Jerusalem Post The Jewish Chronicle

Email: [mailto:melanie@melaniephillips.com melanie@melaniephillips.com]

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Education: Putney High School, London; St Anne's College, Oxford: English

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Video: Regular panelist on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze and BBC One's Question Time

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Other: drove Melanie Phillips to the right?'' - The much-mocked columnist stands as a warning of what happens when the liberal-left ignores its own weaknesses - 18th June 2010 by Keith Kahn-Harris writing in The Guardian



Books:
The Divided House: Women at Westminster. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980. ISBN 0-283-98547-X Doctors' Dilemmas: Medical Ethics and Contemporary Science by Melanie Phillips & John Dawson. Harvester Press, 1985. ISBN 0-7108-0983-2 All Must Have Prizes. Warner, 1998. ISBN 0-7515-2274-0 The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male. Social Market Foundation, 1999. ISBN 1-874097-64-X America's Social Revolution. Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2001. ISBN 1-903386-15-2 The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind it. Little, Brown, 2003. ISBN 0-316-72533-1 Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within OCLC 254413750, 2006

Latest work:The World Turned Upside Down", Encounter 2010
 * and see: melaniephillips.com books

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Articles: 2016

 * Save our anthem from these knavish tricks - Encouraging each nation to sing to its own song will fuel the rise of divisive nationalism - 15th January
 * Let’s be honest about these immigrant attacks - The West is refusing to accept the unpalatable truth behind the assaults on women in Germany - 8th January
 * The fiction that’s truer to life than reality TV - Homeland and Breaking Bad say the unsayable; Downton keeps us swaddled in make-believe - 1st January



Articles: 2015

 * It’s time we banned the Muslim Brotherhood - The organisation has been shown to have a malign influence on many aspects of British life - 18th December
 * Donald Trump’s attackers are the real fascists - The left demonises anyone who disagrees with it — even if they speak for millions of voters - 11th December
 * Osborne is hoodwinking us on immigration - Theresa May and voters want the influx halted but the chancellor is determined to frustrate them - 4th December
 * We can’t beat Isis with one hand behind our back - Airstrikes alone won’t defeat the terrorists but the public won’t tolerate troops on the ground - 27th November
 * Terror attacks have everything to do with Islam - The grievance culture that underpins the beliefs of many Muslims allows extremists to thrive - 20th November
 * The gap between rich and poor doesn’t matter - Relative poverty is a meaningless concept. It replaces compassion with the politics of envy - 13th November
 * These weaselly tricks bring shame on ministers - Trying to wriggle out of international law obligations by changing the ministerial code is wrong - 2nd November
 * We need a return to the old ethos of policing - The force has had a nervous breakdown. More women and ethnic minority officers won’t help - 26th October
 * Today’s feminists are nothing like suffragettes - Campaigners for the vote saw women as morally superior. Now ladettes just want to out-man men - 19th October
 * This is a kick in the teeth for hard-up tenants - The Tories’ ideological sell-off of housing association homes will come back to haunt them - 12th October
 * Free speech is being knocked into a cocked hat - The fear of offending certain minorities is generating its own form of political extremism - 5th October
 * The outrageous wrongs of UN human rights - Britain should not be party to a body that has Saudi Arabia making crucial appointments - 28th September
 * Corbyn isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom of it - It’s a myth that the left is opposed to fascism – it has always been drawn to power and violence - 21st September
 * Artists should recognise when to call it a day - Creative geniuses who are over the hill should be told the truth by their producer or publisher - 14th September
 * Accepting these migrants is a huge mistake - Britain can’t be expected to take in a flood of displaced people that will alter the cultural balance of the country for ever - 10th September
 * The Iran deal makes a terrible war inevitable - Britain and America have not prevented Tehran going nuclear — they’ve only delayed it - 31st August
 * China can teach our schools a thing or two - Our child-centred education system isn’t working so let’s learn from old-fashioned Asian methods - 10th August
 * Jeremy Corbyn is the right man for Labour - The leadership favourite reflects the party’s lurch to the left. Tories write him off at their peril - 3rd August
 * We’d be off our heads to tolerate cannabis - Police laxity has led to more young pot-heads and rising levels of psychosis and addiction - 27th July
 * Cameron turns women into hapless victims - The PM is hopelessly wrong: the gender pay gap isn’t a scandal, it reflects the choices we make - 20th July
 * A children’s film with unforgettable power - Inside Out’s animated account of how an 11-year-old girl deals with sadness may help adults to unlock their emotions - 13th July
 * Obama’s surrender to Iran nears its climax - Sanctions will be lifted but the world won’t get unfettered access to Tehran’s nuclear facilities - 6th July
 * It’s pure myth that Islam is ‘a religion of peace’ - Eliminating terrorists is only half the task; we must encourage reform of the Muslim faith - 29th June
 * Westminster needs a cost-cutting clear-out - MPs are behaving like trade unionists in wanting to preserve their cosy way of working - 22nd June
 * Stop agonising and embrace the capitalists - The Church of England shouldn’t scapegoat the wealthy. That will only increase poverty - 15th June
 * Blair is wrong. You can’t negotiate with Islamists - In his deluded mind Islamic aggressors are rational and can be persuaded to act in self-interest - 8th June
 * Why the right to kill must not be made legal - Assisted dying would put us on a dangerous course – because we wouldn’t know where to stop - 1st June
 * Battling Gove faces his next Herculean task - Cameron’s pledge to bring in a British bill of rights is going to unleash political and legal furies - 18th May
 * SNP’s manipulative bullies must be faced down - Tories should reject fiscal devolution, end the Barnett formula and offer new independence vote - 11th May
 * The Pope’s anti-capitalism will hurt the poor - Anglican and Catholic Churches are wrong to see climate change as today’s biggest moral issue - 4th May
 * The poor suffer when free speech is denied - Charges of racism are used to intimidate investigators of political corruption and sex abuse - 27th April
 * We’re still hopelessly addicted to the NHS - If we want health care on a par with the Continent, we have to introduce insurance schemes - 20th April
 * Putin has us dancing like a puppet on a string - Russia is a lawless, amoral country that looks on the weak-willed West with utter contempt - 13th April
 * Obama is poisoning relations with Israel - Washington nerves are fraying over Iran’s nuclear bomb and the Palestinians’ bid for statehood - 23rd March
 * Gove & Co have flinched from the big problem - The new compassionate conservatism of the Good Right runs counter to justice and freedom - 16th March
 * How political correctness muzzles the truth - Attempts at thought control ended up doing more harm than good to Britain’s race relations - 9th March
 * Don’t expect a meal ticket after marriage - A divorced woman should expect to support herself - and consider the anguish of her family - 2nd March
 * A feeble West emboldens the forces of chaos - Obama’s reluctance to police the world has left Russia, China and Iran eager to fill the vacuum - 23rd February
 * Western leaders must back Islam’s reformers - It is dangerous to pretend the violence seen in Copenhagen has no connection with Islam - 16th February
 * We must say the unsayable about Rotherham - The refusal to acknowledge that grooming gangs are Muslim has had a catastrophic effect - 9th February
 * The real myth is that all men are rapists - The DPP says rape cases fail because of ‘subconscious stereotypes’. Yet she is just as guilty - 2nd February
 * America’s savage past still haunts the present - Prejudice towards black people is still apparent, but ‘white guilt’ attitudes are not the answer - 26th January
 * Cameron must expose this theocracy of hate - If a review into the Muslim Brotherhood goes unpublished, it harms the cause of liberal Islam - 19th January
 * Jews, not cartoonists, are Islam’s real enemy - Until the west recognises the real motivation behind jihadism, the threat will not be defused - 12th January
 * Movies are taking a liberty with our history - Films and TV increasingly mould our view of the past so should we limit their artistic licence? - 5th January



Articles: 2014

 * We can’t always afford women’s anti-war anger - Vera Brittain’s heart-rending memoir has led feminists to forget some battles need to be fought - 29th December
 * America rewards another enemy of freedom - His Cuban policy suggests Obama has learnt nothing from his naive outreach to Putin’s Russia - 22nd December
 * A painful truth: ‘torture’ can be morally right - There are moments when, to save innocent life, you may have to dole out rough treatment - 15th December
 * Isis can only be destroyed on the ground - While Islamic State controls a swathe of territory and great wealth, it will find it easy to recruit - 8th December
 * How James found order in a taste for death - After years of private pain and grief, the great detective story writer’s solace was in fiction - 1st December
 * A desert island free from the tide of vulgarity - Though the home secretary gave little away on Desert Island Discs, that in itself was revealing - 24th November
 * The murder of Christians is our guilty secret - Barbaric assaults on religious liberty are greeted in the West with an embarrassed silence - 17th November
 * Let’s not be handcuffed by this arrest warrant - The home secretary is wrong. Britain should not surrender its legal system to foreign courts - 10th November
 * Sympathy for jihad is a monster we have fed - Hand-wringing in the West over Islamophobia only serves to confirm the Isis world view - 3rd November
 * I can tell you already what this inquiry will say - Even when someone is found to lead the child abuse investigation, don’t expect to learn much - 27th October
 * None dare call it treason, but we all should - Allegiance to Isis should be treated as seriously as support for Nazi Germany once was - 20th October
 * Recognising Palestine won’t promote peace - British MPs should reject this dangerous proposal – just as the Arabs have so often done - 13th October
 * We’re the voyeurs in this nasty marital mess - The film Gone Girl betrays the deep anxiety that exists today about trust within relationships - 6th October
 * Labour plans to use Obama’s secret weapon - Micro-targeting voters helped elect the president – and could do the same for Ed Miliband - 22nd September
 * Vive la political différence. It may save the UK - Scottish women don’t trust politicians – particularly Labour – but may be swayed by economics - 15th September
 * The heart says Yes. No wonder it’s winning - It’s difficult to ask people to be Better Together when they don’t feel part of a shared identity - 8th September
 * This power-hungry Speaker must be sacked - MPs should vote John Bercow out and reclaim their role as protectors of the constitution - 1st September
 * You’re not getting the real truth about Gaza - Innocent civilians will continue to die until the brutal manipulations of Hamas are exposed - 4th August
 * The West is leaderless and Putin knows it - Russia is able to act with impunity because Barack Obama refuses to be the world’s policeman - 28th July
 * A British bill of rights won’t restore our liberty - Even if David Cameron can neuter the Strasbourg human rights court, the EU could step in to enforce its rulings - 2nd July
 * Forget reform, the NHS is beyond repair - The untouchable status of the health service is at the heart of its moral and financial crisis - 14th July
 * Assisted dying transforms doctors into killers - Lord Falconer’s draft law, which would allow the terminally ill to die, ushers in a new dark age - 7th July
 * Keep the censor away from lessons of history - Banning Mein Kampf would be wrong. Such evil hatred must be confronted, not hidden - 30th June
 * Forget Isis. Iran remains our deadliest foe - A misguided President Obama may let Tehran acquire nuclear weapons if it helps to defeat Isis - 23rd June
 * Britain is in denial over creeping Islamisation - Liberal values are under threat but the instinct of many institutions is to accommodate Sharia - 16th June
 * Sometimes justice has to be done in secret - We cannot let distrust of the security services undermine our defences against terrorism - 9th June
 * Cry ‘cover-up’ and ignore the lessons of Iraq - Whatever private letters between Bush and Blair contained, the threat from Saddam was real - 2nd June
 * Ukip isn’t a protest. It’s a counter-revolution - Voters’ views on the EU have been treated with disdain – and now the main parties are in a fix - 26th May
 * Britain today: a mess of bigotry and outrage - Ofsted will itself be accused of intolerance if it insists Muslim children learn about gay rights - 19th May
 * Vested interests blight Europe’s fig-leaf democracy - As mainstream politics breaks down, the lobbying that corrupts Brussels is heading for the UK - 12th May
 * The peace process can’t deliver true justice - In Northern Ireland’s Faustian pact, the price of no more bombs was a blind eye to terror - 5th May
 * Snowden’s only prize should be for treachery - Fear of government blinds left and right to the role surveillance plays in thwarting our enemies - 21st April
 * Intolerance wins as a brave woman is snubbed - A liberal US university has dropped plans to honour a campaigner for Muslim reformation - 14th April
 * Liberal high priests pursue another heretic - The American CEO forced out for opposing gay marriage is a victim of ideological intolerance - 7th April
 * We want morality-free, godless religion - Western minds are not closed to the supernatural. They are closing to traditional moral codes - 31st March
 * True liberals should be wary of open borders - Mass immigration can do great damage to progressive societies. The numbers do matter - 24th March
 * In the age of post-moral politics, cynicism rules - Farage and Boris are immune to scandal because they seem to connect with ordinary people - 17th March
 * Corruption: the cancer that’s killing the Met - The Lawrence inquiry accused the police of racism while the bigger issue was being ignored - 10th March
 * Europe’s fascist fringe is awakening again - When mainstream political parties ignore voters’ everyday concerns, extreme groups resurface - 3rd March
 * A legal ivory trade is an insult to elephants - If the world is going to stop this barbaric practice it needs to choke off demand, not add to it - 17th February
 * It’s too late to tell Scots to believe in Britain - Cameron’s plea for a strong and united nation rings hollow after so much loss of sovereignty - 10th February
 * [http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/article3993482.ece ''Gove needs more allies against “un-teaching” - Even the Ofsted inspectorate is populated with educationalists gripped by failed theories - 3rd February
 * Come to Londonistan, our refuge for poor misunderstood Islamist victims - According to remarks attributed in the past few days to security sources, no fewer than 1,200 Islamist terrorists are biding their time within British suburbs - 6th June 2006



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 * Melanie Phillips: The scourge of the Left has joined the world of e-publishing. She’s gone from the left-wing establishment to celebrity status on the right. But will anyone buy her branded mugs? Profile by Andy McSmith in The Independent, 12th May 2013
 * O brave new world, That has such people in’t! - Readers may be interested to know that my 12-year relationship with the Daily Mail is about to change - Melanie Phillips, Melanie's Blog, 10th September 2013



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