Melanie Phillips - Revision history

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Melissa Jones: cj

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Tom Mills: /* Education and ‘relativism’ */

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Education and ‘relativism’

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Londonistan

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 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">The progressive erosion of respect for other institutions such as the church, the civil service, the police, Parliament and the Royal Family, stemmed from the same cause: the collapse of external authority and its relocation in the individual.  And at the heart of this profound change into a liberal individualistic society lay a paradox: that liberal values came to turn upon themselves and began to threaten the very order and liberty on which they depend. <ref>Melanie Phillips, ''All Must Have Prizes'' (London: Warner Books, 1998) p.189</ref></blockquote>
-‘Right from the beginning,’ Phillips writes, ‘liberal values contained the seeds of their own destruction.’ <ref>Melanie Phillips, ''All Must Have Prizes'' (London: Warner Books, 1998) p.190</ref> Later she added that, ‘The great paradox of the Enlightenment was that, in liberating human thought in order to enhance civilisation, it lit a slow fuse beneath it.’ <ref>Melanie Phillips, ''All Must Have Prizes'' (London: Warner Books, 1998) p.197</ref> Phillips's critique of the Enlightenment and of the supposed decline in moral values appears to have been influenced by [[Jonathan Sacks]] who she cites in ''All Must Have Prizes'' and who had at the same time developed a critique of 'relativism' in British society influenced by American communitarian thinkers. <ref>see [[Jonathan Sacks|page]] on Jonathan Sacks for more details. Ultimately Phillips argued that liberal individualism without moral and social authority led to chaos or tyranny.  In the eighth chapter, ‘The Destruction of Morality’, she wrote: ‘If rightness is simply what is right-for-me, then who is to say that Nazism was an absolute wrong? … Moral relativism leads directly to despotism and tyranny.  It was no accident that Nietzsche, in whose long shadow our relativist society was formed, represented a significant milestone on the road to the Final Solution.’ <ref>Melanie Phillips, ''All Must Have Prizes'' (London: Warner Books, 1998) p.222</ref>
+‘Right from the beginning,’ Phillips writes, ‘liberal values contained the seeds of their own destruction.’ <ref>Melanie Phillips, ''All Must Have Prizes'' (London: Warner Books, 1998) p.190</ref> Later she added that, ‘The great paradox of the Enlightenment was that, in liberating human thought in order to enhance civilisation, it lit a slow fuse beneath it.’ <ref>Melanie Phillips, ''All Must Have Prizes'' (London: Warner Books, 1998) p.197</ref> Phillips's critique of the Enlightenment and of the supposed decline in moral values appears to have been influenced by [[Jonathan Sacks]] who she cites in ''All Must Have Prizes'' and who had at the same time developed a critique of 'relativism' in British society influenced by American communitarian thinkers. <ref>see [[Jonathan Sacks|page]] on Jonathan Sacks for more details.</ref> Ultimately Phillips argued that liberal individualism without moral and social authority led to chaos or tyranny.  In the eighth chapter, ‘The Destruction of Morality’, she wrote: ‘If rightness is simply what is right-for-me, then who is to say that Nazism was an absolute wrong? … Moral relativism leads directly to despotism and tyranny.  It was no accident that Nietzsche, in whose long shadow our relativist society was formed, represented a significant milestone on the road to the Final Solution.’ <ref>Melanie Phillips, ''All Must Have Prizes'' (London: Warner Books, 1998) p.222</ref>
 ===Neoconservatism===

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 [[Image:MelaniePhillips.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Melanie Phillips. Picture by Flickr user Get Down]]
-'''Melanie S Phillips''' (born 4 June 1951) is a controversial British journalist, author and social critic. She has a reputation as an outspoken right-winger but has said she considers herself a 'liberal in the true sense' and 'certainly not of the right'.<ref>James Silver, '[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/melanie-phillips-truth-justice-and-the-melanie-way-752256.html Truth, justice and the Melanie way]', ''Independent'', 9 May 2005.</ref> She has said she has been 'very influenced' by American neoconservatives,<ref>Andy Beckett, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/mar/07/dailymail.pressandpublishing The changing face of Melanie Phillips]', ''The Guardian'', 7 March 2003.</ref>  and considers neoconservatism as 'the only truly moral response to the times in which we live'.<ref>Melanie Phillips, '[http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001617.html Why we need neoconservatism]', Melanie Phillips's Diary, 6 March 2006.</ref> Her 2001 book ''America's Social Revolution'', which laments 'family breakdown' and 'welfare dependency', was published by the right-wing think-tank [[Civitas]] in association with the ''[[Sunday Times]]''.<ref>Melanie Phillips, ''[http://www.civitas.org.uk/pdf/cs15.pdf America's Social Revolution]'' (Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society, 2001)</ref>
+'''Melanie S Phillips''' (born 4 June 1951) is a controversial British journalist, author and social critic. She has a reputation as an outspoken right-winger but has said she considers herself a 'liberal in the true sense' and 'certainly not of the right'.<ref>James Silver, '[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/melanie-phillips-truth-justice-and-the-melanie-way-752256.html Truth, justice and the Melanie way]', ''Independent'', 9 May 2005.</ref> She has said she has been 'very influenced' by American neoconservatives,<ref>Andy Beckett, '[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/mar/07/dailymail.pressandpublishing The changing face of Melanie Phillips]', ''The Guardian'', 7 March 2003.</ref>  and considers neoconservatism as 'the only truly moral response to the times in which we live'.<ref>Melanie Phillips, '[http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001617.html Why we need neoconservatism]', Melanie Phillips's Diary, 6 March 2006.</ref> In March 2011 Phillips wrote a column  on the murder of an Israeli settler family in which she referred to 'the moral depravity of the Arabs' and wrote that 'the Israelis will quite rightly never trust any agreement with such savages'. <ref>Melanie Phillips, '[http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/6779100/armchair-barbarism.thtml Armchair barbarism]', Spectator Blog, 13 March 2011</ref>
 ==Biography==

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 ==Londonistan==
-[[Londonistan]] is Phillips's variation on the [[Eurabia]] theme. In 2006, Phillips published ''Londonistan: How Britain Has Created a Terror State Within''. In a 2008 foreword, she wrote that "Britain is even now sleepwalking into Islamisation."
+In 2006, Phillips published ''Londonistan: How Britain Has Created a Terror State Within''. [[Londonistan]] is Phillips's variation on the [[Eurabia]] theme.  In a 2008 foreword, she wrote that "Britain is even now sleepwalking into Islamisation."
 <blockquote style="background-color:ivory;border:1pt solid Darkgoldenrod;padding:1%;font-size:10pt">Some people will read that sentence and think this is mere hyperbole. That's the problem. Britain still doesn't grasp that it is facing a pincer attack from both terrorism and cultural infiltration and usurpation. The former is understood; the latter is generally not acknowledged or is even denied, and those who call attention to it are pilloried either as 'Islamophobes' or alarmists who have taken up residence on Planet Paranoia.<ref name="Lon">Melanie Phillips, ''Londonistan: How Britain Created A Terror State Within'', Gibson Square, July 2008, pvii.</ref></blockquote>