Melanie Phillips

Mark Steel: Why do people cling to the myth of the nuclear family?

So that settles it. The sceptical might wonder how we know this grave contains the whole family, as there could have been loads more of them who all lived together communally, but are buried somewhere else. So this was probably...

Baby P: Socialist Liberal Conservatives To Blame And Sterilising The Guilty

BABY P Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Baby P in the news… THE SUN (front page): “SOCIAL WORKERS NEW SHAME” When a tortured and murdered baby isn’t shaming enough… “BABY P GRAN: I WARNED HARINGEY” Says she: “They didn’t...

A hand up for mothers-to-be

Pregnant women who choose to give birth find help working through life issues at Lifehouse Maternity Home Editor's note: The women interviewed agreed to speak only if their full names weren't used. She heard about Lifehouse...

AHI Invited to Encounter Books Celebration

Roger Kimball, co-editor and publisher of The New Criterion, President and Publisher of Encounter Books, and academic adviser to the AHI, served as master of ceremonies for a gala tenth anniversary celebration of Encounter...

The Illusion Of Hope Triumphs

clipped by: merrieclipper's remarks: The rout of our democracy by a combination of Marxist idealogues and arab cash is now well underway. Our republic is about to be subverted from within. Obama will preside over the greatest...

An age of barbarism

By Melanie Phillips, Spectator Twenty years ago, I started writing about the breakdown of the family, the systematic undermining of moral constraints and the ascendancy of ‘lifestyle choice’, a doctrine which forbade...

Child abuse stats are blind on family type

From The Christian Institute Marriage really is the safest and best setting for raising children. Family type is a significant risk factor in child abuse yet Government number-crunchers refuse to collect data on it, leading to...

Martin Kettle: Tabloid irresponsibility means readers get most of their political information...

Some people are lucky with their timing and their friends. Paul Dacre is one of them. This week the editor of the Daily Mail gave a lively lecture berating the judges and extolling the tabloid press, of which he is such a...

Make Way for the Mega-Mosque

Some now call London the "Muslim capital of Europe." Today East London Councilman Alan Craig joined The 700 Club to talk more about the mega-mosque and why he so staunchly opposes it. But imagine a huge modern Islamic complex...

Deeper into the trap

Within a few days of the American presidential election, Iran was already testing Obama with Ahmadinejad slyly offering him his congratulations. Obama gave a guarded, pro-forma reply that Iran had to stop supporting terror and...

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