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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About: 'Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which is currently appearing in The Times, has appeared over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She is a regular panellist on BBC Radio's The Moral Maze and appears frequently on BBC TV's signature political shows Question Time and The Daily Politics. She also writes regularly for the Jewish Chronicle and the Jerusalem Post.'

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: the Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power OCLC 435419419,  Encounter books, 2010


 * and see: melaniephillips.com books

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Articles: 2016

 * The secretive elite are facing a mass uprising - Conspiracy theories about Bilderberg meeting are part of the backlash against backstairs deals - 14th June
 * Turkey is a Trojan horse endangering Europe - Erdogan has exploited the migrant crisis to demand visa-free travel and is a dangerous Islamist - 7th June
 * How dare the BBC toss feisty Titty overboard - Great books like Swallows and Amazons shouldn’t be vandalised by filmmakers - 30th May
 * Holy war over the Gospel according to Hitchens - The polemical atheist showed signs of spiritual leanings towards the end of his life - 24th May
 * We must shame firms into stamping out slavery - Consumer pressure is the key to freeing more than 20m people living in servitude across the world - 17th May
 * Poor Shakespeare must be turning in his grave - Having an artistic director at the Globe who doesn’t understand the playwright is beyond parody - 10th May
 * Hatred of Israel and Jews can’t be separated - The left is institutionally anti-Israel, while the media has conspired to ignore Palestinian racism - 3rd May
 * America’s drug experiment has been a disaster - The legalisation of cannabis financed by Soros and encouraged by Obama will lead to social decay - 26th April
 * William shows he is out of step with the Queen - Our selfless monarch would never have consented to a ‘look at me’ photo-opp at the Taj Mahal - 19th April
 * Let’s abandon our broken NHS and move on - The only solution to the health service’s problems is a continental-style insurance scheme - 12th April
 * These awful tattoos show we’re turning pagan - The craze for body art signifies a deep shift in western values away from respect for humanity - 5th April
 * Our immigrants need to read British fiction - Great writers more than anyone can convey a sense of nationhood and love of one’s country - 22nd March
 * Hillary’s scandals would have sunk anyone else - From the Libyan disaster to the email controversy, the former first lady always dodges the blame - 15th March
 * The scandal of women’s violence towards men - Feminists ignore the fact that aggression in the home is a female, as well as a male, problem - 11th March
 * Science is turning back to the dark ages - Overplaying the threat to coral reefs is just the latest example of ideology distorting research - 4th March
 * Project Fear looks more like mafia blackmail - Military leaders strong-armed, civil service hobbled . . . this is blatant government manipulation - 26th February
 * It’s right to give prisoners a chance to change - At the heart of Gove’s enlightened reforms is a belief that people are capable of redemption - 19th February
 * Tories are peddling piffle to glue us to the EU - If we want political freedom the only way is Out. An independent UK will not end up isolated - 12th February
 * Gay activists want to have their cake and eat it - Equality row between Christians and gay men shows how victims have become the oppressors - 5th February
 * School class warriors only hurt the poor - It isn’t a crime to have gone to Eton. The real enemy of social mobility is the comprehensive system - 29th January
 * Nazi refugees who changed our world forever - George Weidenfeld was a conciliator, Henry Kissinger a warrior; both have left a lasting impact - 22nd January
 * 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
 * ''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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Articles: 2016

 * Turning enemies into friends and friends into foes - Iran is confident that Obama will lift sanctions whatever the regime may do, since if Iran walks away from the nuclear deal this would strip away the figleaf of progress and destroy Obama’s legacy - 21st January



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 * Safe? Such lies spell danger - Support free speech? Of course you do. So you support people defaming Israel as an apartheid state? Hmmm. Tricky, isn't it? Freedom of expression is a core western value which has been turned into a battleground - 25th February 2016
 * Exposing the enemy within - I've been reading with particular interest about the row over Tuvia Tenenbom's exclusion from a Limmud panel - 14th January 2016
 * The graduates of hatred - The current Arab murder campaign against Israeli Jews is being incited by the Palestinian leadership - 3rd December 2015
 * History lessons needed - Years ago, I asked the editor of an Israeli newspaper why Israel never acknowledged that the wellspring of the Arab onslaught against it lay in Islamic extremism - 22nd October 2015
 * The response to the migration crisis is blinkered emoting - It is very difficult for any diaspora Jew to deal rationally with Europe's migration crisis - 10th September 2015
 * Wars for Western minds - In the words of the 17th-century English diplomat Sir Henry Wotton, an ambassador is "an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country" - 30th July 2015
 * Still tormented by the past - In December 1990, a year after the Berlin Wall fell, Dina Gold, then a BBC investigative reporter, marched into the Ministry of Transport at Krausenstrasse 17/18 in former East Berlin and announced to the bemused official on duty, "I've come to claim my family's building." - 18th June 2015
 * A silence that imperils us - ... the President of the United States is poised to surrender the security of the west to its mortal enemy, Iran - 7th May 2015
 * Loyalty of Israel's true friend - In New York last week, I was talking to American Jews anxious about the very difficult relationship between President Obama and Israel's newly re-elected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu - 26th March 2015
 * Not afraid? What planet are you on? - Apparently, civilisation is saved! Some 3 million people took to the streets of Paris last Sunday to declare "Je suis Charlie" and that they would fight off the threat to freedom just like the French resistance - 15th January 2015
 * A deeply unsettling attack - An 11 year-old Israeli child, Ayala Shapira, suffered third-degree burns to her face and body last month when a car driven by her father Avner was firebombed in Ma’ale Shomron, part of the disputed territories - 6th January 2015



News & updates:

 * 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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