Sitemap - 2021 - Melanie Phillips
New Year’s resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council
As I was saying back in 2013...
A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews
Stranded on the political zip-wire
The magical plasticity of authenticity
Trump and Netanyahu: allies no longer?
Political values in the moral maze
Antisemitism and Islamophobia: a double standard
The closing of the Durham university mind
The new radicals of the counter-culture
The Iranian regime plays hardball. Who knew?
Imagine... a world with no defence against conquest
Bowling the googly of identity politics
Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative
Pass the smelling salts: the BBC is right
Keir Starmer and Labour's antisemitism problem
A distinctly un-wizard witch-hunt
Cracks in the bulwarks of decency
Britain's Channel invasion farce
The most urgent threat to diaspora Jews
The unconscious historical experience of the Royal Court theatre
Inconvenient truths behind climate change hysteria
The tragi-comic climate doomsday cult
What the Palestinian Arabs really want
The crucial gift of being ‘a people apart’
Irrationality and the Covid vaccine
Why we really should be terrified by COP26
The "human rights" terror laundry
The baleful consequences of cultural dogmyopia
An "acceptable" level of deaths?
America's first task at the UN Human Rights Council
What lies beneath the progressives' favourite cause
Sally Rooney’s very ugly world
Our greenwashed cognitive emergency
Another lovely review of my novel
The false accusation of "Israel apartheid"
The ongoing nakba of Britain’s Labour party
The greenwashed heirs to Lysenko
The Democrats’ baleful Iron Dome fiasco
Why "smart" people spout intersectional drivel
Downing Street's green emperor has no clothes
The cowardly enablers of thuggery
The unstoppable engine of infamy
The Booker Prize for ignorance
Twenty years on, the cultural fault-line remains
When lunatics control the academic asylum
The west's delusional fifth column
The state of the Jews in Britain and the world
The unholy alliance against civilisation
Paranoid conspiracies v sane and sober empiricism
The "post-normal science" of the climate apocalyse
Sleepless nights for the mangy British lion
What conservatives have forgotten
Code red for scientific credibility
The west's tsunami of antisemitism
The invisible victims of jihadi violence
Bacchanalian revels in the moral maze
Animal sentience in the moral maze
The real challenge of reconciling Christians and Jews
The brain-frying hijack of decency
Media malpractice as a weapon of war
Is this really what "safe and secure" means?
The real story about that Gaza death toll
Donald Rumsfeld’s disdained legacy
The elephant family in the room
The delusional faith in reason of the liberal intellectual
Transgender sport in the moral maze
The west's revolutionary chickens coming home to roost
Appeasement in our time, once again
The posthumous Nazi front against the Jews
Potty mouths in the moral maze
A source of cautious optimism – if anyone notices
How America is now threatening its allies
What's behind the antisemitism tsunami?
The virus of irrational hatred
A frog in a pot in Batley and Spen
Facing a tsunami of antisemitism, diaspora Jews cling to their bubble
My latest appearance on The View
The strange reluctance to defend liberal principles
How Israel really may lose America
The murderous doctrine of moral equivalence
Why western mobs are now sticking it to the Jews
A reality check for Gaza. But has the US noticed?
The last, overlooked but still active front of World War Two
Britain slides into an antisemitic sewer
Labour is still yoked to the holy war on the Jews
Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?
Hamas commits war crimes. Israel is blamed. Of course.
What you won't read in western media about the Jerusalem riots
A complex relationship made in heaven
The real question Labour can’t answer
How corrupted "liberalism" transforms compassion into cruelty
When "deeply uncomfortable" is deeply spineless
America smashes its moral compass and drags the world behind it
How antisemitism denial destroyed the west's moral compass
Being played for suckers by Tehran
Is the US spinning out of control?
Rattling Israel's BBC tormentors
Speaking words of principle while facilitating evil
Gladstone must be spinning in his grave
Biden's impending disaster for the west
Might this become Israel's century?
Challenging the falsehoods about white supremacism
A society that's gone off the sexual rails
Hypocrisy and hysteria over the Sewell report
The uncertainty of Covid in the moral maze
Throwing a teacher under the free speech bus
Does hyper-individualism pose a threat to democracy?
Reaping the anti-west whirlwind
Magical thinking in enfeebled America
How "tamed"Jews deny what's all around them
Jared Kushner's curious change of heart
The uncontrollable non-crisis at America's southern border
The real reason women now feel unsafe
Throwing off the shackles of ignorance and propaganda
The Sussexes take morality through the looking glass
Prince Harry and Meghan in the moral maze
The contemptible Oprah /Sussex circus
Is there a ghost in the Oval Office?
Are Jews an ethnic minority? Is the BBC a broadcaster?
Vaccine passports in the moral maze
The unfolding Biden administration horror show
Britain's Supreme Court gets something very right
The return of American anti-anti-Islamism
We recognise Haman. But where are Mordechai and Esther?
Threatening their allies and appeasing their enemies
A perfect storm of weather, wrongheadedness and wishful thinking
Why the correct answer has become the wrong answer
Theological incitement within the World Council of Churches
Personal responsibility in the moral maze
America’s pivot towards the rogue state of Iran
The absurd malevolence of the International Criminal Court
It's all about buying ourselves time
Shafting the poor to "save the planet"
Why can the left never see their own antisemitism?
The lethal legacy of Black Lives Matter
The haredi Covid tragedy has created a crisis for Judaism itself
"Systemic climate racism". Who knew?
Decency and sanity beneath the madness in Iran
No, this is not "getting back to normal"
Vaccine hesitancy and disintegrating identity
Will America remain the strong horse on Iran?
Can there be Trumpism without Trump?
On Iran, it's groundhog day all over again
Why conservatives need to...erm, conserve
Inoculation, incompetence and intolerable exceptionalism
A president for all Americans who think like him
The losing of the western mind
A disaster and a tragedy for America, Jews and decent people everywhere
Reflections on a revolutionary society