Melanie Jackson

Melanie Phillips (born 4 June 1951) is a British public commentator. She began her career writing for The Guardian and New Statesman. She currently writes for The Times, The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish News Syndicate and The Jewish Chronicle, covering political and social issues from a socially conservative perspective. During the 1990s, critics alleged that Phillips became increasingly associated with right-wing politics and the far-right, and her work has been linked by some commentators to the…