Conversations: Featuring Melanie Phillips II

John Anderson talks to British journalist, author and broadcaster Melanie Phillips about the origins of Western cultural and political freedoms, the resurgence of antisemitism around the globe and the key problems confronting the youth of today.

Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, broadcaster and author. Her weekly column, which currently appears in The Times of London, has been published over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times and Daily Mail. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News Syndicate.

Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment’s capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006. She followed this in 2010 with The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, and in 2018 with her first novel, The Legacy.

#BREXIT #Terrorism #Islamism #Israel
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00:00 Introduction
3:24 Facts vs. Feelings
13:43 The Importance of Healthy Families
24:57 BREXIT and Division in the UK
27:58 BREXIT and the Elites
44:28 The Cultural Origins of the West
50:43 The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in the West
1:03:56 Why is Israel so Hated?

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