“Inshallah” on the BBC: a cultural cringe?
Melanie Phillips’s Diary » The Beeb’s cultural cringe Melanie Phillips reproduces emails one Brian Gilbert sent to her (not sure who he is; there is a film director by that name, but it may...
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Mad Mel and the gift horse’s wide-open mouth
Melanie Phillips’s Diary » The emperor’s green new clothes Melanie Phillips lapped up the recent documentary entitled “The Great Global Warming Swindle”, a polemic produced by Martin Durkin, a veteran of the old Revolutionary...
Melanie Phillips: Liar or Ignoramus?
Mad Mel’s Diary: the “War Against the West” Mel comments on the King Fahad Academy controversy, in which a sacked former teacher accuses the school of teaching from a textbook which makes some unflattering...
Rats out, roaches in as Nazis try to butter up Jews
There is a letter in the current edition of the Jewish Chronicle, the “establishment” paper of the British Jewish community, from Alan Goodacre defending the British National Party from this article by Melanie Phillips...
Mad Mel repeats blood libel
Apparently unaware of the irony of perpetuating a racial libel when she routinely refers to attacks on Israeli military practices as “blood libels”, Melanie Phillips reproduces this appalling smear against the British from one...
Moral Maze fails to rebut Mel’s misrepresentations
This week the BBC’s panel discussion programme The Moral Maze discussed the issue of religious symbols, in a week following not only the infamous niqab debate but also an incident where a flight attendant...
Mad Mel in the Guardian
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Jackie Ashley meets Melanie Phillips I’m sure some of you are getting sick to death with this and wondering if I have an infatuation with Melanie Phillips, but...
Simon Heffer on “Londonistan” (with replies)
Simon Heffer has written what amounts to a puff piece for Melanie Phillips’ book Londonistan in the Daily Telegraph, alleging among other things that Phillips had difficulty “exercising her freedom of speech” on account...
Mel with Anita Anand on her supporters
A snippet from Anita Anand’s conversation with Melanie Phillips (hat tip: Saracen; you can listen to it here until next Monday; it’s 1hr 45mins in. Anita: This is another text that’s come in just...
Mad Mel’s audience
Just checking for reviews of Melanie Phillips’ new book, and came across this, on Amazon … the details of what people who bought Londonistan also bought. Bawer, Fallaci, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom, Bat Eeyore...
Mad Mel soundbite (and book hold-up)
Melanie Phillips has latched onto the Inayat Bunglawala / Little Green Footballs controversy in her usual way, with a reference to “the truly demented ‘Zionist conspiracy’ theory emanating from Londonistan (Charles isn’t even a...
Crocodile tears for Ayaan
With Ayaan Hirsi Magan’s resignation after the exposure of her asylum grounds as largely false and her Dutch citizenship now in serious doubt, the hypocritical crocodile tears are beginning to flow in large numbers. Robert Spencer calls it “persecution”, the immigration minister Rita Verdonk “lamentable” and the politicians involved “despicable, black-hearted Dutch dhimmis” who “evidently want to take the greatest stateman they have produced in this age and send her back to Somalia and certain death”. Melanie Phillips talks of the Dutch being “in the throes of a pathological moral convulsion” and her downfall “a development that shames the Dutch people and should strike a chill throughout the rest of dhimmi Europe”.
The vast left-wing conspiracy
Something I’d been meaning to blog on as part of my “Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week” series, now that she’s started blogging again, but Stuart Jeffries in today’s Guardian has pretty much beaten...
Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week (3)
I was going to blog this clanger in Mad Mel’s latest diary entry, but PhobeWatch and Saracen beat me to it. This is Mel excoriating “Britain’s man of straw”, the man MPACUK wanted to...
Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week (2)
In response to the civil union in the Netherlands involving a man and two women, Mad Mel wonders where all this liberalisation is leading us: [Charles] Krauthammer, however, sees all these developments merely as...
Melanie Phillips soundbite of the week
In the style of the “Donald Rumsfeld soundbite of the week” the BBC’s Broadcasting House programme used to have on a Sunday, in which the public was left to laugh at Dumbsfeld tripping over...
Mad Mel: it’s the Muslims’ fault
Melanie Phillips once again turns her fire on the BBC, complaining that in a recent feature for Today on the recent violence in the French ghetto suburbs, the presenters “simply excised all references to...
Amir Butler on Sydney riots
Br Amir Butler has provided his own account of the recent riots in Sydney. To my knowledge, this is the first Muslim blog account of the incidents (surprisingly, Irfan Yusuf doesn’t seem to have...
Another dispatch from a parallel Britain
As Matthew Turner has noticed, Melanie Phillips is fast running out of friends. In just two days, she has decided that the Conservative party, the Metropolitan Police and the Daily Telegraph have somehow deserted...
Shock news: Arabs don’t wear poppies. Cabbie talks out of his backside.
Melanie Phillips today linked this tragi-comic piece of Front Page drivel, The First Step to Britishness Is Your Poppy. In it, Carol Gould describes how she was accosted by some idiot of Arab origin...