Melanie Phillips joins Spectator.co.uk

Matthew d’Ancona, editor of The Spectator, writes:
I am proud to welcome Melanie Phillips to Spectator.co.uk as one of our regular bloggers. The essence of The Spectator, in print and online, is distinctive voices and great writing. Melanie is one of the best and most fearless columnists in Britain today, constantly forcing us to reconsider our preconceptions and to challenge stodgy orthodoxies. In her writings on politics, education, family policy, the Middle East, Islamism and countless other subjects, she is simply unmissable: she has received acclaim around the world, quite rightly, for her magnificent book, Londonistan, which exposed the extent to which our capital city had become a hub in which radical Muslims plotted and recruited freely.

So her blog, www.Spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips, is yet another reason why you cannot afford to miss what’s going on every day at the Spectator online (if you want her posts to come to you automatically, you can set up an RSS feed by clicking