Arrogant, abusive and oh-so smug - why do so many cyclists think they're...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: It’s high time such cyclo-fascists were brought down off their towering saddles and made to observe the same laws and social conventions as the rest of us.
View ArticleWhen Russell Brand and Richard Branson are helping shape drug policy,...
Today’s report from the Home Affairs Select Committee recommends something whose only purpose is to bring about drug legalisation — while pretending to be moderate and responsible.
View ArticleThey say they are the most family friendly government ever. So why such...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: One of the most pressing anxieties of responsible parents is how to stop their children from accessing pornography on the internet. Nearly three-quarters of nine to 16-year-olds in...
View ArticleRaising a child as Christian worse than sex abuse? Oh, do put a sock in it,...
I passionately believe that if Britain and the West are to continue to be civilised places, it is imperative that the decline in Christianity be reversed.
View ArticleMy resolution for 2013 is to conquer my greatest fear . . . and you¿ll NEVER...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: This is the year when I’ll definitely, absolutely and without any shadow of a doubt finally learn to swim. If you note a degree of over-emphasis behind this new year’s resolution, it...
View ArticleFrom Baby P to this hospital of horrors, the Welfare State is protecting...
The Government must stop bowing down to the sacred cow of the NHS and rethink the basis of the Welfare State if care services are to become, in the Health Secretary’s words, ‘worthy of a civilised...
View ArticleUntil we learn to be as single-minded as the fanatics - at home and abroad -...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: The Algerians refuse to negotiate because they know that the Islamists’ position is simply non-negotiable. Such terrorists regard with contempt all negotiation as a sign of weakness....
View ArticleWhat Mary Berry can teach today's feminists about not treating women as...
Is it surprising that women who have battled through real obstacles in their lives tend to view modern feminism with contempt? Asks MELANIE PHILLIPS.
View ArticleWhy failing to stand up for marriage is the reason Tories are always in crisis
MELANIE PHILLIPS: Plots against David Cameron appear to be seeding like dandelion spores. With some honourable exceptions, today's Tories don't appear to know what conservatism is for and what it is...
View ArticleA generous deal for the elderly? No, this is just cynical smoke and mirrors
Today, the government is due to unveil its proposals for dealing with the vexed and emotive issue of how to pay for long-term care for the elderly, writes MELANIE PHILLIPS.
View ArticleI'd be overjoyed if this was the end of the foreign criminals fiasco- but...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: The truth is that it is human rights law that has undermined democracy by giving judges the power to arbitrate between competing rights and thus make decisions that properly belong in...
View ArticleDo we need IQ TESTS for juries? Vicky Pryce trial has exposed a breathtaking...
By discharging the jury which had failed to reach even a majority verdict in the Vicky Pryce case, the judge, Mr Justice Sweeney, did not hide his astonishment and dismay at the way it had behaved,...
View ArticleCover-up culture and a political class that's rightly held in contempt
Are we really to believe that Mr Clegg’s office knew about the claims of sexual impropriety with number of women by Lord Rennard, but that he himself did not, and that Lord Rennard had been asked about...
View ArticleI know where the political common ground is, Dave. The question is: do you?
MELANIE PHILLIPS: The unhappy fact for Cameron is that his government is not trusted to do anything it may say. Its credibility is shot. And it is hard to exaggerate the fury and despair among...
View ArticleArchbishop of Canterbury: You don't beat poverty by trapping families on...
How very disappointing. It appears that the arrival of a new head of the Church of England has not managed to prevent the collective clerical knee from jerking in the same old way over the poor, writes...
View ArticleThe Press is the last bastion of free thinking that the Left has not managed...
MELANIE PHILLIPS: Press freedom is the one that guarantees all the rest. Without it, the corrupt, the criminal and the compromised can get clean away with wrongdoing — and thus uninvigilated, the...
View ArticleGPs given licence to make a fast buck out of taxpayers. This isn't reform,...
At the weekend, it was reported that certain members of the new NHS commissioning groups have a financial stake in private companies or organisations which can then bid for lucrative contracts with the...
View ArticleParis Brown tweets: The true scandal's the fortune being wasted on non-jobs...
It is astounding that yet another bureaucratic empire should now be spawning yet more jobs that have everything to do with power and status and nothing to do with what the public actually needs, writes...
View ArticleHas Cameron at last learnt Blair's lesson that the British are NOT naturally...
The Prime Minister has realised that people that do not want their country to be transformed into an international entrepot of competing tribes, but to identify with the recognisable and shared...
View ArticleMELANIE PHILLIPS: The drug zealot I exposed a decade ago and how the BBC's...
Brighton's local public health agency may introduce what is euphemistically called a drug 'safe consumption room', otherwise known as a 'shooting gallery', writes MELANIE PHILLIPS.
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