Category Archives: Melanie Phillips

Here lies Winterval: 1998-2011?

November 8, 2011 – 8:55 pm

So, after a lot of resistance – distorted, truth-bending resistance – the Daily Mail have published a correction after Melanie Phillips claimed that: Christmas has been renamed in various places ‘Winterval’. Tabloid Watch has charted the great effort the complainant – regular Tabloid Watch reader James – went to in order for the Daily Mail [...]

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Melanie Phillips and libel

September 29, 2011 – 8:50 pm

Melanie Phillips’ second email to me is really quite interesting for such a short piece of writing. She claims that my blog post is: highly defamatory and contains false allegations for which you would stand to pay me significant damages in a libel action. OK, fair enough, so immediately it leads you to think: she [...]

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Publishing emails…

September 28, 2011 – 11:10 pm

I have had some criticism on Twitter and in the comments on site – not to mention from Melanie Phillips herself – for publishing contents of the emails that she sent to me. I can understand the criticism, and it is something I have never done before and I doubt I will ever need to [...]

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Melanie Phillips on Winterval

September 27, 2011 – 10:57 pm

About half an hour ago I sent Melanie Phillips an email regarding her repetition of the famous ‘Winterval’ myth on which I happen to think myself quite the expert – having traced the myth back to its origins in 1997 and written extensively on its development over the years since. Amusingly Melanie Phillips has been [...]

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Melanie Phillips’ dishonest attack on Rory Weal

September 27, 2011 – 9:27 pm

One of the main criticisms of the welfare state I seem to hear about is that it rewards the idle, whilst punishing the hard-working who ultimately have to fund the system through direct and indeed indirect taxation. It is a point made by Ed Miliband in his speech today, in which he wants his new [...]

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