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Chris Huhne and Melanie Phillips - from comrades to combatants
Melanie Phillips's attack on her former colleague Chris Huhne is symptomatic of taking the leader lineYou wouldn't expect the Daily Mail to love Will Hutton – with all the "credentials of a chattering...
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The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips | Digested read
Encounter Books, £13.99This book arose from a sense of perplexity that almost everyone in the world thought I was clinically mad. Everywhere I looked there were people who believed boarding a...
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What drove Melanie Phillips to the right? | Keith Kahn-Harris
The much-mocked columnist stands as a warning of what happens when the liberal-left ignores its own weaknessesAt least in liberal-left circles, the reaction to Melanie Phillips's The World Turned...
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Conservatives defend aid spending from rightwing onslaught
Simon Heffer and Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips unite in cry of 'charity begins at home'As Enoch Powell's biographer, the Daily Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer is used to controversy. But now...
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The Spectator apologises for falsely accusing Muslim of antisemitism
Apology follows settlement in which magazine and contributor Melanie Phillips agreed to pay Mohammad Sawalha compensation and his legal costsThe Spectator and contributor Melanie Phillips today...
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PCC investigates Melanie Phillips' Spectator blog
Blogpost on media coverage of murder of Israeli family on West Bank referred to the 'moral depravity' of Arab 'savages'A Melanie Phillips blogpost on the Spectator website which referred to the "moral...
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Why Melanie Phillips quit The Spectator
Melanie Phillips claims that she resigned from The Spectator because it published an apology for one of her blog items.She writes - on her own blog - that the apology "misrepresented my post" and has...
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Norway attacks: Writer quoted by gunman hits back
Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips takes exception to 'suggestion' on blogs that her writings might have influenced Anders Behring Breivik's actionsAnders Behring Breivik's purported manifesto, a...
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When a writer's words have unintended consequences | Roz Kaveney
That Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto quotes Melanie Phillips should give all writers pause for thoughtIn times of violence, words can be weapons. WB Yeats asked himself in the 1930s "Did that play...
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When did respect turn into political correctness? | Giles Fraser
Familiar voices are protesting about the use of BC and AD. But this outcry has nothing to do with faith – it's about the BBCThe politics of being offended are complicated and subtle. In the first...
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Winterval: the unpalatable making of a modern myth
This is the story of the evolution of a simple Christmas tale that wound up, poisonously, at the Mail and Melanie Phillips's doorIn 1997 Mike Chubb was working for Birmingham city council during the...
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Hacking book: Mail's campaign of vilification against a university professor
Today's extract from the updated edition of The phone-hacking scandal: journalism on trial,* is by Ivor Gaber, who dissects what he calls "a campaign of vilification" against a university...
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Melanie Phillips' new venture will stand up for the little guy | Media Monkey
Now you can not only read Melanie Phillips, you can wear her too after the Daily Mail columnist launched her own media company with its very own bespoke branded merchandise. The publishing venture,...
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Simon Hoggart's week: would you buy a poncho from a Guardian columnist?
If rightwing writer Melanie Phillips can launch her own line of branded goods, maybe those of a leftish bent should do so too✒ When I saw that my old chum Melanie Phillips – once a Guardian lefty, now...
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Melanie Phillips: Melanie Phillips: she's putting the world to rights | profile
The controversial columnist, who has moved inexorably over the years from left to right, has now launched her own publishing empire 'to make a better world'. Will readers, including her fans in the US,...
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Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review
This is a revealing memoir of a troubled childhood and a love-hate relationship with the leftWhatever would Melanie Phillips have done without the left? It has been her life's work to fight this...
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Melanie Phillips has got Mail, but that's not enough for her
With its New York office and American staff, the Daily Mail columnist's new company, emBooks, is proof she is seeking a global audienceIf I had come across emBooks, Melanie Phillips's new publishing...
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Join us for a Question Time to remember | Open thread
Russell Brand, Boris Johnson and Melanie Phillips will all be on the BBC programme – share your comments here from 10.30pmRussell Brand, Boris Johnson and Melanie Phillips will be sharing the same...
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Russell Brand rules Question Time's clash of the egos
BBC lines comedian up with Boris Johnson and Melanie Phillips but the arguments fizzle rather than sizzleSomeone once said that politics is showbusiness for ugly people. So what happens when a pretty...
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Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time
So what really happened behind the scenes when Russell Brand turned up with his mum to take part in Question Time? And what did he make of Boris?More from acute awareness of Instant Karma's immediate...
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