New Year Dishonour
On Saturday morning we awoke to the news that the former prime minister, Tony Blair, and the broadcaster and former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, had been awarded knighthoods,...
Category: Phillips, Melanie
Charlie Gard and NHS versus private care
So, the tragic story of Charlie Gard, the terminally-ill baby boy whose parents have fought a legal battle to stop doctors at Great Ormond Street in London from turning off his life support, has...
Melanie Phillips has her history wrong
There is an article in the Times today (paywalled) in which Melanie Phillips proclaims that the Scots and Northern Irish have no right to secede at the expense of the “authentic”, “ancient” British nation...
Populist bigots need not be fascists
Yesterday there was an article published in the Times by Melanie Phillips (it is paywalled, but a scanned image can be found here), a writer whose rantings against Muslims used to be a favourite...
Taj Hargey is wrong on grooming
Last week seven men from Oxford were found guilty of various sexual offences, including rape, for ‘grooming’ young girls and ultimately raping and allowing other men to rape them. Many of them were in...
Let’s not panic over Mali and Algeria
Until we learn to be as single-minded as the fanatics - at home and abroad - we’re ALL hostages | Mail Online In response to the attack by an “al-Qa’ida franchise” on the gas...
Melanie Phillips is not mad
When I first got into blogging in 2004, one of the most prominent voices in the blogosphere (she was, and is, also a newspaper columnist) was Melanie Phillips, who by that time wrote for...
“9/11 a dry run for Tel Aviv ram raid”
The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips | Digested read | Books | The Guardian This is a pretty hilarious parody of Melanie Phillips’s latest book, The World Turned Upside Down. The Guardian’s...
JPost editorial tells Europe how to deal with Muslim women
Jerusalem Post: Rejecting the burka As Muslims it’s been our recent experience that many of the voices raised loudest against Muslims in the west have connections to Israel, particularly in the United States but...
Mad Mel: ban Shari’ah to stop terrorism
MELANIE PHILLIPS: To our eternal shame, Britain is STILL a hub for Islamic terror | Mail Online Melanie Phillips, in response to the attempted aeroplane bombing on Christmas day, writes another of her rants...
Dignifying the BNP, blaming the victims
Melanie Phillips: The true cause of the BNP’s rise Melanie Phillips had this article published yesterday in the Daily Mail (also on her home page) and she comes out with her usual line about...
IJ gets a mention in the Spectator
I was browsing through the Spectator the other day, and noticed that Melanie Phillips had contributed a piece about a “new axis of Islamists and Evangelicals” against Israel. The subject was nothing other than...
Notes on the Sheffield hymn scandal
Islamophobia Watch and a Muslim Facebooker drew my attention to the “scandal” of the head-teacher in Sheffield who was “forced out” after Muslim pupils (and, presumably, parents) objected to her whole-school assemblies. She had...
Muslims and Neturei Karta
Reading Mas’ud Khan’s account of his recent exchange with Melanie Phillips ([1], [2], [3]), I noticed that he had mentioned Neturei Karta to her, asking her whether she regarded them as “self-hating Jews”. NK,...
Bombay attacks may have been by Mafia
Misha Glenny, a noted author of books on the underworld, suggests that the Bombay-Karachi mafia known as “D-Company” may have been involved in last week’s attacks, as they were in earlier bombings. The “kingpin”...
Here’s gratitude for you
The Spectator this week led with a “Happy 60th Birthday, Israel” feature by Melanie Phillips. Perhaps there is nothing unusual about that, given that it repeats a whole load of the usual pro-Israeli claims...
The presumption of Melanie Phillips
Today the storm over the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech last Thursday rumbles on, with the Scum newspaper having circulated a complaint form which it urged its readers to fill in and send to the...
“Cultural separatism” and the Islamic studies conference
Islamophobia Watch - David Cameron accuses Muslims of ‘cultural separatism’ David Cameron gave this speech at a conference on “Islam and Muslims in the World Today”, hosted in London by Cambridge university earlier this...
Our alleged duty to respect Israel
Melanie Phillips’s Diary; The Islamic duty to respect Israel Melanie Phillips, courtesy of “Arabs for Israel”, has found a selection of Qur’anic verses which supposedly enjoin Muslims to respect Israel - not the prophet...
Mad Mel’s short memory
Melanie Phillips delivers her usual denunciation of what she calls “two egregious additions on British television to the demonisation of Israel and the consequent furtherance of Jew-hatred”, one of them being a Channel 4...