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Melanie Phillips

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• 30 January 2012

  The other Britain

  Last Thursday night I was on BBC TV’s Question Time in Plymouth, which you can view here. The last question on the show came from a woman who asked whether, ‘since Israel has many more nuclear weapons than Iran’, we should agree with President Obama’s statement that no option (in other words, war with Iran) should be ruled out.

  Published in: Daily Mail

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• 30 January 2012

  Why does the ailing west aid its Islamist enemies?

  Was there ever a more perverse and self-destructive society than the contemporary West? In its attitude to the Middle East and the Islamic world, it appears to suffer from the political equivalent of auto-immune disease: turning on its allies while embracing its enemies.

  Published in: The Australian

• 30 January 2012

  The police have lost their way but the answer isn't to let them be run by meddlers like Prescott

  As has long been clear, something seems to have gone very badly wrong with the culture of British policing. While many police officers do a sterling job in preventing crime and promoting public tranquillity, barely a week goes past without some fresh revelation of gross incompetence or allegation of cronyism — or even corruption — by the police.

  Published in: Daily Mail

• 25 January 2012

  Why Iran will not ‘come to its senses’

  War with Iran is a truly fearsome prospect. Its likely consequences would include attacks on US air bases from thousands of Iranian missiles, the unleashing of terrorist attacks within the US and Europe, the rocketing of Israeli towns from the tens of thousands of missiles trained on Israel from Lebanon, the closing of the Straits of Hormuz thus paralysing western oil supplies, and doubtless other horrors.

  Published in: Daily Mail