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'Melanie Phillips' (born June 4 1951) is a British columnist and author. Her articles appear mainly in the ''Daily Mail'' newspaper and focus on political and social issues. She has previously written for ''The Guardian'' and other publications. Phillips is a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 programme, ''The Moral Maze'' and on BBC One's ''Question Time''.
Phillips was educated at Putney High School, a girls' independent school in Putney, London, and later read English at St Anne's, Oxford, before training as a journalist on the ''Evening Echo'', a local newspaper in Hemel Hempstead, England. After a short period at the ''New Society'' magazine, she joined ''The Guardian'' newspaper in 1977 and soon became its social services correspondent and social policy leader writer. After a stint as the paper's news editor, she started writing her own opinion column in 1987. As a writer for ''The Guardian'' in 1982 she defended the Labour Party at the time of the split with the Social Democratic Party.
Leaving ''The Guardian'', Phillips first took her opinion column to the ''Guardian'' sister-paper ''The Observer'', and then to the ''Sunday Times'', before starting to write regularly for the ''Daily Mail'' in 2001. She also occasionally writes for the ''Jewish Chronicle'' and other periodicals. Since 2003, she has maintained a blog.
She was awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1996.
She is Jewish, and married to Joshua Rozenberg, formerly legal affairs correspondent for the BBC, now Legal Editor of the ''Daily Telegraph'' newspaper."The multicultural menace, anti-semitism and me", Jackie Ashley meets Melanie Phillips, ''The Guardian'', 6 June 2006 They have two children.
The BBC has described Phillips as "one of the media's leading right-wing voices",[1] although she defines herself as a progressive and a defender of liberal democracy[2]. She began her career on the liberal left with the ''Guardian'' newspaper, and her gradual drift to the right of the political spectrum has been mirrored by her journalistic career: she now writes for the conservative ''Daily Mail''. She has used her ''Daily Mail'' columns and her blog to criticise, amongst other issues, progressive teaching methods,[3] scientism,[4] Islamism,[5] and anti-semitism; to defend Israel;[6] to oppose equal partnership rights for homosexuals;[7][8] and to support strict anti-drug policies.Phillips, Melanie. "The international drugs fifth column", ''Daily Mail'', 14 January 2003. Accessed 22 April 2007.
Phillips has described the paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" as a "particularly ripe example of the 'global Zionist conspiracy' libel" and expressed her astonishment at "the fundamental misrepresentations and distortions in the paper".[9]
In a recent article, she criticised the membership and leadership of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in Britain, and specifically the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, accusing them of antisemitism because of remarks made by the Archbishop about the plight of Bethlehem Christians under Israeli occupation; another factor was an opinion poll showing that the majority of Anglicans were opposed to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The article ended with a condemnation of what she sees as the churches failure to criticise the President of Iran's desire to "destroy Israel", and that "the churches in Britain are not only silent about the genocidal ravings emanating from Iran but are themselves helping pave the way for a second Holocaust".[10]
Phillips has described the members of the Iraq Study Group as being "as intellectually deficient as they are morally malodorous".[11] She has also written that James Baker and Jimmy Carter are "the kept creatures of the Arab world" and that "they are intent on smoothing the path to Israel's destruction."[12]
Phillips argues that evolution is "merely a theory." She writes that it "does not explain the irreducible complexity of certain cells for example, which cannot have been formed by simple organisms coming together". She claims that it "does not explain human self-consciousness; it does not explain altruism; it does not explain how existence began."Phillips, Melanie. "Intolerance against religion", ''Daily Mail'', 15 March 2002 She has also defended the teaching of creationism in schools.
Despite a scientific consensus is that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism,[13] Phillips has repeatedly questioned the safety of the vaccine,[14][15][16][17] insisting that "urgent questions about the vaccine’s safety remain unanswered."[14] Science writer Ben Goldacre has called Phillips "the MMR sceptic who just doesn't understand science".[19]
Phillips has said of global warming that the current "warm spell is well within the normal cyclical fluctuations in temperature from century to century",[20]
that blaming "warming on mankind’s activities in producing carbon dioxide" is "utter garbage",[21]
and that global warming alarmism is like a "witch-hunt"[22]
and is “one of the greatest scientific scams of the modern age”.
Phillips, Melanie. "Blame the trees!", ''Daily Mail'', Daily Mail, 13 January 2006; corrections added. George Monbiot has accused her of "scientific illiteracy" and says she is aligned with a "denial industry" funded by oil and tobacco companies.[23]
Her most notable book is ''All Must Have Prizes'' (1996), which offered a detailed critique of the British education system, claiming that an egalitarian and non-competitive ethos had led to a catastrophic fall in standards. (The title comes from the description of the caucus-race in Lewis Carroll's ''Alice in Wonderland''.)
In 2003, she published ''The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement''. As well as the history, the book also detailed the evolution of the various ideas that lay behind the movement.
Her latest book, ''Londonistan'', was published in 2006. In it, Philips claims that radical Islamism has established London as a base of operations, blaming what she sees as the broader failures of multiculturalism, cultural relativism and appeasement in Britain.
★ ''Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within''. Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2006. ISBN 1-903933-76-5.
★ ''The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind it''. Little, Brown, 2003. ISBN 0-316-72533-1.
★ ''America's Social Revolution''. Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2001. ISBN 1-903386-15-2.
★ ''The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male''. Social Market Foundation, 1999. ISBN 1-874097-64-X.
★ ''All Must Have Prizes''. Warner, 1998. ISBN 0-7515-2274-0.
★ ''Doctors' Dilemmas: Medical Ethics and Contemporary Science'' by Melanie Phillips & John Dawson. Harvester Press, 1985. ISBN 0-7108-0983-2.
★ ''The Divided House: Women at Westminster''. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980. ISBN 0-283-98547-X.
1. [1]
2. Phillips, Melanie. "Why I am a progressive", ''New Statesman'', 1 January 2000
3. Phillips, Melanie. The national literacy debacle, ''Daily Mail'', 3 March 2005
4. Phillips, Melanie. Arrogance, dogma and why science - not faith - is the new enemy of reason, ''Daily Mail'', 6 August 2007
5. Phillips, Melanie. "No Surrender", ''Daily Mail'', 11 July 2005
6. Phillips, Melanie. "The Tories’ disproportionate response", ''Jewish Chronicle'', 6 October 2006
7. Phillips, Melanie. "Orwellian Britain", ''Daily Mail'', 12 December 2005
8. "The non-existent backlash against gay marriage", Johann Hari, JohannHari.com, 20 February 2006
9. Phillips, Melanie. "The graves of academe", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', March 21 2006
10. Phillips, Melanie. "Peace on earth, but hatred towards Israel", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', December 18, 2006
11. Phillips, Melanie. "Bush Alone", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', December 10 2006
12. Phillips, Melanie. "The kept creatures of the Arab world", ''Melanie Phillips's Diary'', December 21 2006
13. Geoffrey North, for example, states that “there is a clear and strong scientific consensus: the overwhelming scientific evidence is that the triple MMR vaccine does not cause autism”. North, Geoffrey. “Which expert should I believe?”, ''Current Biology'', Volume 15, Issue 12, 21 June 2005, Page R433. Accessed 7 April 2007.
14. Phillips, Melanie. "MMR: the unanswered questions", ''Daily Mail'', 31 October 2005
15. Phillips, Melanie. "‘Evidence-based’ ignorance over MMR", ''The Guardian'', 8 November 2005
16. Phillips, Melanie. "The MMR controversy, yet again", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', 8 November 2005
17. Letters in response to Phillips' ''Guardian'' MMR article, ''The Guardian'', 9 November 2005
18. Phillips, Melanie. "MMR: the unanswered questions", ''Daily Mail'', 31 October 2005
19. Goldacre, Ben. "The MMR sceptic who just doesn't understand science", ''The Guardian'', 2 November 2005.
20.
Phillips, Melanie. "The global warming con-trick", ''Daily Mail'', 25 February 2002
21. Phillips, Melanie. "The global warming fraud", ''Daily Mail'', 12 January 2004
22.
Phillips, Melanie. "Wet, but not the end of the world", ''Daily Mail'', 12 August 2002
23. Monbiot, George. "The Denial Industry", George Monbiot, ''The Guardian'', 19 September 2006
★ Phillips' personal website
★ Her blog
★ The danger of Melanie Phillips, Jonathan Freedland, ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 30 March 2007
]]
| Contents |
| Personal life, education, and career |
| Political views |
| Israel |
| Iraq Study Group |
| Views on science |
| Evolution |
| MMR vaccine |
| Global warming |
| Books by Phillips |
| References |
| External links |
Personal life, education, and career
Phillips was educated at Putney High School, a girls' independent school in Putney, London, and later read English at St Anne's, Oxford, before training as a journalist on the ''Evening Echo'', a local newspaper in Hemel Hempstead, England. After a short period at the ''New Society'' magazine, she joined ''The Guardian'' newspaper in 1977 and soon became its social services correspondent and social policy leader writer. After a stint as the paper's news editor, she started writing her own opinion column in 1987. As a writer for ''The Guardian'' in 1982 she defended the Labour Party at the time of the split with the Social Democratic Party.
Leaving ''The Guardian'', Phillips first took her opinion column to the ''Guardian'' sister-paper ''The Observer'', and then to the ''Sunday Times'', before starting to write regularly for the ''Daily Mail'' in 2001. She also occasionally writes for the ''Jewish Chronicle'' and other periodicals. Since 2003, she has maintained a blog.
She was awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1996.
She is Jewish, and married to Joshua Rozenberg, formerly legal affairs correspondent for the BBC, now Legal Editor of the ''Daily Telegraph'' newspaper."The multicultural menace, anti-semitism and me", Jackie Ashley meets Melanie Phillips, ''The Guardian'', 6 June 2006 They have two children.
Political views
The BBC has described Phillips as "one of the media's leading right-wing voices",[1] although she defines herself as a progressive and a defender of liberal democracy[2]. She began her career on the liberal left with the ''Guardian'' newspaper, and her gradual drift to the right of the political spectrum has been mirrored by her journalistic career: she now writes for the conservative ''Daily Mail''. She has used her ''Daily Mail'' columns and her blog to criticise, amongst other issues, progressive teaching methods,[3] scientism,[4] Islamism,[5] and anti-semitism; to defend Israel;[6] to oppose equal partnership rights for homosexuals;[7][8] and to support strict anti-drug policies.Phillips, Melanie. "The international drugs fifth column", ''Daily Mail'', 14 January 2003. Accessed 22 April 2007.
Israel
Phillips has described the paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" as a "particularly ripe example of the 'global Zionist conspiracy' libel" and expressed her astonishment at "the fundamental misrepresentations and distortions in the paper".[9]
In a recent article, she criticised the membership and leadership of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches in Britain, and specifically the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, accusing them of antisemitism because of remarks made by the Archbishop about the plight of Bethlehem Christians under Israeli occupation; another factor was an opinion poll showing that the majority of Anglicans were opposed to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The article ended with a condemnation of what she sees as the churches failure to criticise the President of Iran's desire to "destroy Israel", and that "the churches in Britain are not only silent about the genocidal ravings emanating from Iran but are themselves helping pave the way for a second Holocaust".[10]
Iraq Study Group
Phillips has described the members of the Iraq Study Group as being "as intellectually deficient as they are morally malodorous".[11] She has also written that James Baker and Jimmy Carter are "the kept creatures of the Arab world" and that "they are intent on smoothing the path to Israel's destruction."[12]
Views on science
Evolution
Phillips argues that evolution is "merely a theory." She writes that it "does not explain the irreducible complexity of certain cells for example, which cannot have been formed by simple organisms coming together". She claims that it "does not explain human self-consciousness; it does not explain altruism; it does not explain how existence began."Phillips, Melanie. "Intolerance against religion", ''Daily Mail'', 15 March 2002 She has also defended the teaching of creationism in schools.
MMR vaccine
Despite a scientific consensus is that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism,[13] Phillips has repeatedly questioned the safety of the vaccine,[14][15][16][17] insisting that "urgent questions about the vaccine’s safety remain unanswered."[14] Science writer Ben Goldacre has called Phillips "the MMR sceptic who just doesn't understand science".[19]
Global warming
Phillips has said of global warming that the current "warm spell is well within the normal cyclical fluctuations in temperature from century to century",[20]
that blaming "warming on mankind’s activities in producing carbon dioxide" is "utter garbage",[21]
and that global warming alarmism is like a "witch-hunt"[22]
and is “one of the greatest scientific scams of the modern age”.
Phillips, Melanie. "Blame the trees!", ''Daily Mail'', Daily Mail, 13 January 2006; corrections added. George Monbiot has accused her of "scientific illiteracy" and says she is aligned with a "denial industry" funded by oil and tobacco companies.[23]
Books by Phillips
Cover of the book ''All Must have Prizes''
Her most notable book is ''All Must Have Prizes'' (1996), which offered a detailed critique of the British education system, claiming that an egalitarian and non-competitive ethos had led to a catastrophic fall in standards. (The title comes from the description of the caucus-race in Lewis Carroll's ''Alice in Wonderland''.)
In 2003, she published ''The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement''. As well as the history, the book also detailed the evolution of the various ideas that lay behind the movement.
Her latest book, ''Londonistan'', was published in 2006. In it, Philips claims that radical Islamism has established London as a base of operations, blaming what she sees as the broader failures of multiculturalism, cultural relativism and appeasement in Britain.
★ ''Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within''. Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2006. ISBN 1-903933-76-5.
★ ''The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind it''. Little, Brown, 2003. ISBN 0-316-72533-1.
★ ''America's Social Revolution''. Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2001. ISBN 1-903386-15-2.
★ ''The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male''. Social Market Foundation, 1999. ISBN 1-874097-64-X.
★ ''All Must Have Prizes''. Warner, 1998. ISBN 0-7515-2274-0.
★ ''Doctors' Dilemmas: Medical Ethics and Contemporary Science'' by Melanie Phillips & John Dawson. Harvester Press, 1985. ISBN 0-7108-0983-2.
★ ''The Divided House: Women at Westminster''. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980. ISBN 0-283-98547-X.
References
1. [1]
2. Phillips, Melanie. "Why I am a progressive", ''New Statesman'', 1 January 2000
3. Phillips, Melanie. The national literacy debacle, ''Daily Mail'', 3 March 2005
4. Phillips, Melanie. Arrogance, dogma and why science - not faith - is the new enemy of reason, ''Daily Mail'', 6 August 2007
5. Phillips, Melanie. "No Surrender", ''Daily Mail'', 11 July 2005
6. Phillips, Melanie. "The Tories’ disproportionate response", ''Jewish Chronicle'', 6 October 2006
7. Phillips, Melanie. "Orwellian Britain", ''Daily Mail'', 12 December 2005
8. "The non-existent backlash against gay marriage", Johann Hari, JohannHari.com, 20 February 2006
9. Phillips, Melanie. "The graves of academe", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', March 21 2006
10. Phillips, Melanie. "Peace on earth, but hatred towards Israel", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', December 18, 2006
11. Phillips, Melanie. "Bush Alone", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', December 10 2006
12. Phillips, Melanie. "The kept creatures of the Arab world", ''Melanie Phillips's Diary'', December 21 2006
13. Geoffrey North, for example, states that “there is a clear and strong scientific consensus: the overwhelming scientific evidence is that the triple MMR vaccine does not cause autism”. North, Geoffrey. “Which expert should I believe?”, ''Current Biology'', Volume 15, Issue 12, 21 June 2005, Page R433. Accessed 7 April 2007.
14. Phillips, Melanie. "MMR: the unanswered questions", ''Daily Mail'', 31 October 2005
15. Phillips, Melanie. "‘Evidence-based’ ignorance over MMR", ''The Guardian'', 8 November 2005
16. Phillips, Melanie. "The MMR controversy, yet again", ''Melanie Phillips' Diary'', 8 November 2005
17. Letters in response to Phillips' ''Guardian'' MMR article, ''The Guardian'', 9 November 2005
18. Phillips, Melanie. "MMR: the unanswered questions", ''Daily Mail'', 31 October 2005
19. Goldacre, Ben. "The MMR sceptic who just doesn't understand science", ''The Guardian'', 2 November 2005.
20.
Phillips, Melanie. "The global warming con-trick", ''Daily Mail'', 25 February 2002
21. Phillips, Melanie. "The global warming fraud", ''Daily Mail'', 12 January 2004
22.
Phillips, Melanie. "Wet, but not the end of the world", ''Daily Mail'', 12 August 2002
23. Monbiot, George. "The Denial Industry", George Monbiot, ''The Guardian'', 19 September 2006
External links
★ Phillips' personal website
★ Her blog
★ The danger of Melanie Phillips, Jonathan Freedland, ''The Jewish Chronicle'', 30 March 2007
]]
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