Melanie Phillips I | Liberty and the West

John Anderson talks to British journalist, author and broadcaster Melanie Phillips about the sources of political and personal liberty in Britain and The West, the contemporary threats to that liberty and what can be done to preserve it.

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.

#Journalism #Christendom #Jewish
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00:00 Introduction
5:24 The Demoralisation of Britain
14:43 The Disparity Between Citizens and the Cultural Elite
24:38 What are the Ideologies Controlling the Cultural Elites?
33:00 The Consequences of Losing the Democratic Process
43:12 Social Media and Cancel Culture
51:39 Nationalism and President Trump
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