A Leftie who saw the light: What the cruel death of my parents taught me...
Doctors who hid the truth about her mother's crippling illness for 25 years. Nurses who lied to cover their neglect. The shattering experiences that made MELANIE PHILLIPS despair of the way we treat...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: Too many immigrants today expect Britain to adopt THEIR...
In the concluding part of a personal new memoir, Mail columnist MELANIE PHILLIPS reveals why she fears the West is sleepwalking towards self-destruction — and why she despises the global warming...
View ArticleWhy is the Left so blind to the link between today's sex scandals and the...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: During the Seventies and Eighties, sexual licence was considered acceptable and anyone who spoke against it was treated as a pariah. All constraints on sexual behaviour were removed....
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: The more abuse Mr Gove gets from the teachers, the more...
Michael Gove has been attracting unprecedented amounts of flak from the teaching profession on account of his education reforms. At the weekend, he came under fire from head teachers at their annual...
View ArticleUntil our leaders admit the true nature of Islamic extremism, we will never...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: Government officials have always refused to admit that this is a religious war. They simply don’t understand the power of religious fanaticism. Yet the killers of Drummer Rigby...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: Yes, the feminists were strident and shrill - but they...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: Some people have claimed there is no evidence that pornographic images have any effect on behaviour. Common-sense would suggest, however, that at least some measure of cause and...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: Part-time women doctors ARE a real problem. Why is it...
Last week in commons, junior Health Minister Anna Soubry spoke of ‘the unintended consequences’ of the number of women training to be doctors. What in heaven’s name is ‘sexist’ about that? Asks...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: Blackadder and a celebrity-obsessed honours system that...
In recent years, the honours list has produced a certain lowering of the original spirit. For a number of names on it seem to have arrived there for cynical, venal or opportunistic reasons, writes...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: Why these squalid NHS cover-ups?
Nationally, the NHS employs more than 1.7million people. They enjoy good wages, salaries, pensions and job security, and fight to protect such benefits. For tactical reasons, they prefer to call this...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: Patriotism. Good manners. Courage. No wonder even...
As a spectator, I am left cold by most sports. Cricket remains a source of bafflement, rugby seems like war by other means, and as for Formula One — well, forget it! But Wimbledon is different, says...
View ArticleA vicious crime boss, his corrupt police cronies and a scandal that could...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: The Metropolitan Police is descending into what is possibly the most serious crisis in its existence. It is being all but swamped by one claim of misconduct or cover-up after...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: Hope at last on the pathway to death - but the NHS still...
According to advance reports, the Government will announce today the end of the deeply controversial Liverpool Care Pathway. But we are still not at the root of our health-care problems, writes...
View ArticlePM David Cameron acts over online porn
Today, David Cameron is set to declare that, in a dramatic reversal of existing practice, anyone who wants to access online porn will have to positively opt in to get it, writes MELANIE PHILLIPS.
View ArticleThe Tories are just as desperate as Labour to hide the real truth about...
A measure of immigration is very good for the country. But if the numbers are too high, the infrastructure just cannot cope and priorities become distorted
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: NHS 111 service has been a disaster from the start
Staff numbers decline dramatically during night and weekend shifts, leaving unqualified workers to make snap decisions about people who may be critically ill
View ArticleI despair of a Tory Party that bribes mothers to get others to take care of...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: With truly eye-watering illiberalism, the Government is once again trying to hammer family life into a shape that millions of us would reject.
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: An unholy war in the Girl Guides and why we must ALL fight...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: Like a poorly knotted woggle, the attempt by the Girl Guides to rope in the new generation is now steadily unravelling.
View ArticleSir David Frost dies: What the bully boys of broadcasting today could learn...
Sir David Frost’s hallmark characteristic was his affability and niceness. It was this good-natured quality that encouraged people to drop their guard, says MELANIE PHILLIPS.
View ArticleThe election of Australia's new PM Tony Abbott is clear evidence that...
A true conservative won a general election on true conservative principles. This has just occurred in Australia where the leader of the Liberal (conservative) Party, Tony Abbott, has been elected...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil
A liberal society should permit cultural or religious minorities to wear distinctive clothing - but only if that doesn’t get in the way of an institution’s ability to enforce basic standards of...
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