Melanie Phillips 
Do Israel's critics think there are not enough dead Jews?
Jerusalem It’s the moral equivalence which is so devastating. When Egypt this week proposed its ceasefire in Gaza, a BBC presenter asked whether both sides would now conclude that… Read more
The Revd Paul Flowers ticked all the right 'progressive' boxes — that's why he could get away with anything
Listen to Melanie Phillips and Jesse Norman discuss Paul Flowers: Yet again, one particular question has formed on lips up and down the land. How in heaven’s name could so… Read more
The elderly are driving the recovery. It's time for generational jihadists to say 'thanks'
You can blame it on David Willetts. A while back, he published a book called The Pinch arguing that the older generation had swindled the young out of their rightful… Read more
I think, therefore I’m guilty
Britain is a liberal and progressive utopia – and the authorities will arrest anyone who disagrees Everyone can agree that today’s Britain — which we’re always being told has become… Read more
Welcome to the Age of Irrationality
It is a truth universally acknowledged that reason and religion are mortal foes. Reason deals a death blow to religion; religion is clearly irrationality on stilts. If only religion didn’t… Read more
Al-Qa’eda has relocated to Africa
There has been general shock at the attempted downing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 over Detroit. It isn’t just that yet another aeroplane terrorist atrocity was averted only by luck… Read more
Melanie Phillips
To Edinburgh, that most gracious and civilised of cities, for what promises to be a less than altogether agreeable experience. I have to confess that, when BBC1’s Question Time rang… Read more
The clash of uncivilisations
The BNP are using the public’s real fear of Islamism to attract support for their racist movement, says Melanie Phillips. If the political class wants to take on Griffin, it… Read more
Beware the new axis of evangelicals and Islamists
Last weekend the Revd Stephen Sizer, vicar of Christ Church, Virginia Water appeared at an anti-Israel meeting with an Islamist called Ismail Patel. Patel has not only accused Israel of… Read more
Happy 60th birthday, Israel: well done for surviving
What would Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have said if, on the day that he declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he had known that… Read more
A major defeat in the war to defend the free world
Shortly after the release of Alan Johnston from Gaza the website of Conflicts Forum, a group advocating engagement with Islamists and which is run by the former MI6 officer Alastair… Read more
The wizards of Oz have got it right
Coming from Britain to Canberra to interview members of the Australian government is like leaving a fetid malarial swamp to be douched with fresh cold water from a mountain spring.… Read more
A terror so great we forgot it at once
Dhiren Barot’s case faded because it revealed unbearable truths Dhiren who? Mention Dhiren Barot to anyone and the chances are that you’ll be met with a blank look. At best,… Read more
Hezbollah cells await Iran’s orders
At a recent Stop the West rally (yes, I know, but that’s their real agenda) demonstrators waved placards proclaiming ‘We’re all Hezbollah now’. Really? If so, why were they allowed… Read more
Melanie Phillips
I am currently sporting a plaster cast on my left arm which is further encased in a sling. People wonder solicitously whether I have been attacked by enraged human-rights lawyers… Read more
Let’s bring back stigma and shame
The Turkish government recently announced that it intended to make adultery a criminal offence. This was not altogether surprising, since the Turkish government adheres to the principles of Islam, under… Read more
Why do politicians lie? Because they have to
Tony is fighting Gordon while fending off Robin and Clare and trying to shaft Geoff while Jack beats him up about David. Iain is being knifed by Michael and Vanessa,… Read more
Honest Tony
Tony Blair told us the truth. There, said it. Shocking, isn’t it? Something you would never dream of reading in a family publication. Especially The Spectator – the paper that… Read more
Road-map to Hell
Colin Powell has said that he can see signs of progress over the Middle East road-map. Israel, he noted, had taken measures which ‘constitute the beginning of the road-map process’.… Read more
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‘Oh my goodness! Four and twenty, you say?’
‘In light of these figures, I will be doing the honourable thing and standing on someone.’
‘If women can be bishops, I want to be a synchronised swimmer.’
‘It’s a Philip Treacy mitre.’
