"Melanie Phillips" is a British journalist, author and public commentator. She started on the left of the political spectrum, writing for The Guardian and New Statesman. During the 1990s she moved to the right, and currently writes for The Times, Jerusalem Post and Jewish Chronicle, covering political and social issues from a Social conservatism/social conservative perspective. Phillips defines herself as a classical liberalism/liberal who has "been mugged by reality."

Phillips has often appeared as a panellist on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze and BBC One's Question Time (TV series)/Question Time. She has written a number of books, including her memoir Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain. She was awarded the Orwell Prize#Journalism category/Orwell Prize for Journalism in 1996, while she was writing for The Observer.

In 2013 she launched a US-focused e-book publishing company called emBooks, a branch of Melanie Phillips Electric Media Limited liability company/LLC.

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We have to show a little bit of defiance. Congratulations to England but they rode their luck. If there hadn't been all those delays for rain and bad light (at the Oval) I'm sure we would have won and taken the Ashes back home.

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Despite the fact that her headmistress warned that this would leave other Muslim girls defenceless against targeting and intimidation by fundamentalists, and despite the fact that this girl was backed by just such an extremist group.

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