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PERSONAL LIFE, EDUCATION, AND CAREER Phillips was educated at Putney High School , a girls' Independent School in Putney , London , and later read English at St Anne's , Oxford , before training as a journalist on the ''Evening Echo'', a local newspaper in Hemel Hempstead , England . After a short period at the '' New Society '' magazine, she joined '' The Guardian '' newspaper in 1977 and soon became its Social Services correspondent and social policy leader writer. After a stint as the paper's news editor, she started writing her own opinion column in 1987 . As a writer for ''The Guardian'' in 1982 she defended the Labour Party at the time of the split with the Social Democratic Party . Leaving ''The Guardian'', Phillips first took her opinion column to the ''Guardian'' sister-paper '' The Observer '', and then to the '' Sunday Times '', before starting to write regularly for the '' Daily Mail '' in 2001. She also occasionally writes for the '' Jewish Chronicle '' and other periodicals. Since 2003, she has maintained a blog . She was awarded the Orwell Prize For Journalism in 1996. She is Jewish, and married to '', 6 June 2006 They have two children. POLITICAL VIEWS The 2003 . Accessed 22 April 2007. Israel Phillips has described the paper " 2006 In a recent article, she criticised the membership and leadership of the , 2006 Iraq Study Group Phillips has described the members of the 2006 VIEWS ON SCIENCE Evolution Phillips argues that 2002 She has also defended the teaching of Creationism in schools.
MMR vaccine Despite a scientific consensus is that there is no link between the 2005 . Global warming Phillips has said of Global Warming that the current "warm spell is well within the normal cyclical fluctuations in temperature from century to century", Phillips, Melanie. "The global warming con-trick" , ''Daily Mail'', 25 February 2002 that blaming "warming on mankind’s activities in producing carbon dioxide" is "utter garbage",Phillips, Melanie. "The global warming fraud" , ''Daily Mail'', 12 January 2004 and that global warming alarmism is like a " Witch-hunt " Phillips, Melanie. "Wet, but not the end of the world" , ''Daily Mail'', 12 August 2002 and is “one of the greatest scientific scams of the modern age”. Phillips, Melanie. "Blame the trees!" , ''Daily Mail'', Daily Mail, , ''The Guardian'', 19 September 2006 BOOKS BY PHILLIPS Her most notable book is ''All Must Have Prizes'' (1996), which offered a detailed critique of the British education system, claiming that an egalitarian and non-competitive ethos had led to a catastrophic fall in standards. (The title comes from the description of the caucus-race in Lewis Carroll 's '' Alice In Wonderland ''.) In 2003, she published ''The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement''. As well as the history, the book also detailed the evolution of the various ideas that lay behind the movement. Her latest book, '' Londonistan '', was published in 2006. In it, Philips claims that radical Islamism has established London as a base of operations, blaming what she sees as the broader failures of Multiculturalism , Cultural Relativism and Appeasement in Britain.
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