This lady is one of the best speakers I’ve come across in YEARS! Highly intelligent, yet explains our history in such a manner, that she’s easy to understand. Why oh why can’t we have a PM like her?
You can tell Mr Anderson isn't a professional interviewer and I mean that as a compliment. He actually lets the interviewee speak without interrupting them!
An outstanding interview Melanie you are one of my heroes and I salute you for your contribution in educating us about the tyranny that is at the door. You are in my prayers God Bless you.
Huge fan of Melanie Phillips, straight talking, fearless and absolutely slays the politically correct wimps.. Keep on doing what your doing Mel. Your fan club is ginormous.
@@kevinherbert4256 Try to stop saying that because it has no effect on intelligent people. Go back into your sheep flock. I'll be you couldn't even give a coherent explanation of what racism is. You only shout out the word from an empty head.
Such a joy to listen to this woman who is saying things that are to many of us, reality..... and which we havnt heard for a very long time except from a very few e.g. Douglas Murray.....
Today's Jeremiah! Melanie understands the determined ignorance, implacable resistance to commonsense, and the visceral hatred and intimidation Jeremiah experienced. Praying for this incredible gutsy lady!
This lady hits the nail on the head! What she is describing is exactly what is going on! I can’t even have a real conversation with my grandson or my best friend anymore. It is heartbreaking! Horrifying to watch American ideals not being passed down to generations. God help us!
This woman just articulated the “why” I’ve been unable to pin down. I could not explain why this insidious war on western society had begun. She nailed it. She states quite clearly the reduction of education to ideology, but fails to mention the corruption of our judicial system with the same ideology.
I was thinking the same thing myself: The first 15 minutes is a summary of what, why and how it all started to go wrong. The 'pin down' is what keeps me listening to these debates about the culture wars: Melanie does it brilliantly
She's a perfect example of Zionist ethno-supremacism propaganda in full flight...what a load of psychobabble.......given that an increasing majority of UK Jews do not accept this Zionist tosh in 2020...as shown by the predominantly Jewish Golders Green electorate refusing to elect the Zionist stooge MP Lucian Berger in the last election...indeed..all of the Zionist aligned UK Change Labour MP deserters, were not re-elected in the recent elections....says it all really....
@@acohen1980 What are you saying. Not everyone lives or understand the British Politic. I understand what she is saying about the left. Maybe you live in the Left.
Thank you both John and Melanie, outstanding interview. Everyone who desires to live a fully fair and free life badly needs to watch and listen to this.
I used to believe Melanie Phillips to be a beyond-the-pale reactionary. I now realise she is absolutely correct. Very powerful interview indeed. Frightening really.
It sounds like you - like me - had to "think the unthinkable" - to get (literally) to the other side. It's often a worthwhile exercise just for itself, you don't always have to accept the results, but they usually are interesting.
The only thing vile and frightening is the level of abuse she faces from very powerful forces. How she copes, I have no idea. She is one of a handful of very brave commentators.
#MeToo... I was going out with a lefty woman, she introduced me to "Meanie" as the Devil. Now I realise Melanie was right all along and she'd been slandered.
I have to keep reminding myself that this is just before the pandemic, before the overt censorship on social media (sort of), before the release of the twitter files etc. this interview has perfectly articulated everything I see today.
We need clear-thinking people like Melanie Phillips in politics.. she's wasted as a journalist. She summed up the UK political leadership vacuum beautifully..
Her website is excellent. Also, I highly recommend "Guardian Angel". Peter Whittle's interviews are excellent. They're called "So what you're saying is". Melanie has been a guest. There's also another podcast,"Triggernometry", well worth watching. After 58 years , I've given upon the BBC.
@@deborahrobertson8606 The BBC is nothing more tha a glogalist propaganda mouth piece. Litteraly everyone from the prersenters to the celebs that work there have a tag line they NEVER deviate from. they're like a tentical of a Bond vilains organization. the head of the organization being a certain multibillionair, i wonder if you can guess who I'm refering to. yea OK i'm going all conspiracy theory on you now but just for fun.
@@deborahrobertson8606 Thanks for those insights. I have watched a few of "So What You're Saying Is" but haven't seen the one with Melanie yet but will do now as I'm a great fan of her and that prog. Not heard of "Triggernometry" but will look it up, thanks.
I so LOVE Melanie Philips and have for years since "The Worlds Upside Down". Here in the US she is to me a voice of reason and a voice of truth for us in Western Civilisation. As someone in the Jewish community in the UK I could only wish that she would have an influence in the Jewish community who remain on the far left here in the US .
Melanie has such a wonderful way of putting reality into words and holding you onto her conversation and agreeing wholeheartedly, such an intelligent mind. Thankfully there are those on social media who are really standing up for our civilisation, but like Melanie says, they don’t get the platform through msm or academia without being vilified. Now the EU is doing all they can to stop the spread of western thoughts on social media with the new copyright/censorship laws. love your interviews John, you speak to my current day hero’s, I hope those in parliament listen to them also.
@Georgia: there is no stopping what is currently happening. The radical left owns all the high ground. I fear we will have to pass through rather than avoid what is coming. The ones I feel most sorry for are the ones sold the bill of goods. Those folks do not understand the endgame.. The Gulag Archipelago outlines what the endgame looks like very well indeed.l
Excellent interview. And yes, I knew what I was voting for when I voted for Brexit. If social media is correct, Jordan Peterson will not be going to Cambridge uni as planned because of students protest. I thought university education was all about broadening the mind? Yes, the west is going under!
Clear and reality-based review of how we arrived at our modern predicament in the West. Makes all of the moves by our governments much easier to understand. They are not inept. They are on plan. Thank you, Ms. Phillips, for your wisdom.
This interview is of a very high quality. I just discover Melanie Philips. She gave such a deep analysis that it’s easy. to understand what we are living today. Why don’t we have people like that in government? We are losing so much all over the world because of this ideology that sounds more and more like a new religion.
@23:22. "If there's no such thing as objective truth, there's no such thing as a lie." That explains a great deal about the quality of modern discourse.
I am reminded of C.S. Lewis's book, "That Hideous Strength." Thank God it ended well. May our struggle end well. I also thank God for Melanie Phillips who can articulate the concerns on these matters so intelligently and fearlessly.
I am proud of the British national identity and when the final fight comes I, along with many others, am more than willing to play my part. I am waiting and preparing.
I have just had the pleasure of listening to Ms. Melanie's discussion. The lady is utterly charming, euridite with a deep spiritual grasp of the situstion and the moral courage to articulate same. Most enjoyable listening to her.
Thank you Melanie Philips how really illuminating and as it has turned out now 2023 England passed that test and left the European Union.I am also impressed with our charming and admirable John Anderson that he obviously very much appreciates what you have to say.Thank you both so much.🌹
This person needs to be listened to. She articulates what I have been feeling for decades now. I particularly resonate with her idea that she had not left the liberal Left, the Left has left her.
What a fabulous interview. Thank you John & Melanie. It starts to explain for me why good people who are products of the university system think the way they do.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. MP erudite as always, JA (as always), the quiet optimist, getting the best out of his interviewees...they might have quoted, "If there is hope it lies In the proles". It didn't work out well for Winston Smith though did it? Tortured eventually, into painful, dull eyed somnolence, passivity and slavery - serious words all of them.
Fantastic interview. I love JA. He is amazing because he allows his guests to talk. re: this interview, the chickens came home to roost in the December 2019 election when the left was truly and quite rightly spanked within an inch of its life. Hopefully, Corbyn has destroyed Labour for good. We (I am a traditional conservative) tolerated the insults and name calling, even from our own friends and family with frenzied, illogical arguments, backed up increasingly from the MSM. The internet allows us to access proper debate and discourse and they (the left) find themselves wanting in almost every case when investigated or put under scrutiny. The silent majority rose up. Frankly we got fed up with the insults and accusations of being nazis and bigots. We are not nazis and bigots. Thank you
Another Brit here-- completely agree. The glorious irony of the election result in December 2019 was that Corbyn should have been an ally to many conservative-minded socialists in the North. He supported Brexit far longer than Boris Johnson. He wanted to re-nationalise the railways, bringing to mind an important conversation about selling our industries to foreign nations. But Corbyn completely squandered this, through his genuflecting to the same progressive dogmas that his traditional voters found repellent and threatening to British culture. Furthermore, I would add his shameful handling of anti-Semitism in his party also helped seal his doom. But this just goes to show that traditional conservatives can span both ends of the political spectrum.
I'm watching this in 2020 on the 1st of September. Its quite profound how accurate she is a year earlier. Re watch to make yourself incensed as we are on the precipice.
What a brilliant mind and how wonderfully articulate. I only discovered her video interviews a few days ago but I find her an enormous inspiration and a brilliantly clear analyst.
Melanie Phillips was very critical of Trump in the early days, but demonstrated a level of humility and realism about him in this interview which means she has the capacity to learn rather than just stick to rigid views. I respect her for that.
For an excellent analysis of the underlying philosophy of our day, Post-Modernism, I highly recommend "Explaining Post-Modernism" by Stephen Hicks. It's even available as a pdf on line
Melanie Phillips always makes clear distinctions, does not exploit slogans, and does not glamourise her own side. You can tell that her progress from the Left to conservatism is motivated only by conviction. You can see this in her devastatingly clear critique of Margaret Thatcher, revered by conservatives on both sides of the pond. When conservatives get it wrong, she says so. As a result, you can be sure when listening to Phillips, that she has thought through her views independent of trends. Phillips also has a wonderful way of explaining things that many others only feel, but can never put into words. While lucid and well-read (unsurprisingly, she attended Oxford University), she never looks down on those with less eloquence and education. In fact, she takes what they feel and gives it clear expression, causing you to say, "Aha! *That's* what was going on! That's what I have felt all along!" Her CSPAN interview is excellent in this regard. I have "All Must Have Prizes" on my bookshelf, which has opened my eyes to the calamity in education, which I *knew* was going on, but I could not understand why. Sadly, nothing has changed since she wrote that damning book. Many thanks to John Anderson for making such a quality interview available to us.
2:41 The difference between Common Law and Civil Law. The Common Law system was exported to the Anglosphere: Canada, Australia, most of the USA, New Zealand etc.
Her explanation on 27:55 was exactly what happened when she appeared on BBC question time last week when Nish Kumar couldn't prove what he was pontificating.
@1:20: "... Freedom...... Is it Safe? Is it Secure?" That is an awesome and vital question, especially as I write from August 2020. It also reminds me of a quote from Gandalf in the first "Lord of the Rings" movie: "Is it secret? Is it safe?" Today, more than ever, I think a radical-left "Sauron" is making a move for global power.
John's videos deserve more views. The balanced, enlightened perspective with a stable host, is worth 1,000x more than another inflammatory talking head with nothing to say.
Amazing thinker and speaker. Thank God for Phillips, Paglia, Sommers, the guys (Haidt, Pinker, Harris, Murray, Peterson, Weinstein). I'm gay, so disagree with her regarding parenting (multiple studies demonstrate there is no difference on impact on children with straight or gay parents; though agree 2 is double the help as a team, but that is not always possible in life), but feel she would respect me as an individual and my life and perspective; really Phillips is a real treasure for England.
I am not convinced that there is reason for hope yet. Sounded good on the surface but the media onslaught on Nigel/Brexit Party shows there is a concerted effort to castigate a clean break Brexit and put through 95% of Mrs May's deal unchanged. We shall see - I was a conservative for over 40 years - no longer.
Even within my own extended family, there are some who make it abundantly clear that they regard me - a 'leave' the EU voter - as MORALLY inferior to them, because I did not vote as they did. This is accomplished with a sneering disdain, a "so, what you're saying is......." type of response, and the occasional 'sigh'. There is an 'hauteur' to them, which I will never be able to forgive, or forget; even when BREXIT is honoured (as it will be; even if it takes a General Election to "drain the swamp"!). When you speak of the Church of England as having utterly failed to counter our militant secularism, you neglect to mention the calibre of our bishops these days. Gone are the great theologians and scientists who used to form the Bench of Bishops. In their place are academic lightweights; who cannot even perceive the difference between two historical figures (Jesus of Nazareth and Mohammed) as revelatory exemplars of the divine. They are as different as chalk and cheese; and yet modern bishops - especially the female ones - view them as of equal revelatory status! These are VERY stupid people: and they have the temerity to claim that they have been 'called' by the Father.
Political Correctness is madness mate, and that’s why I voted to leave... Islamic Terrorism? Oh I can’t refer to verses like 9:29 in the Quran which state: “Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled” And when read in conjunction with the previous verse and Hadith, literally means what it states. I can’t then study the life of Muhammad, and the fact his prophetic career is split into two, the time initially in Mecca where he converted next to nobody for many years then the time in Medina where he began raiding trade caravans and building up an army, before returning to conquer Mecca. And that the above verse is in the later Medina period, and therefore abrogates (cancels out) the earlier ones which are deemed peaceful... Now what happens when numbers reach 20-30%, then I’m affraid as demonstrated throughout history, conflict ensues, Lebanon being a recent example during the 1970s
This lady is one of the best speakers I’ve come across in YEARS! Highly intelligent, yet explains our history in such a manner, that she’s easy to understand.
Why oh why can’t we have a PM like her?
As usual Melanie Philips has THE most intelligent things to say, on all the subjects she choses to speak upon. So refreshing. Thank you Melanie!
A brilliant examination of the state of society, and the path by which we arrived at the NOW.
You can tell Mr Anderson isn't a professional interviewer and I mean that as a compliment. He actually lets the interviewee speak without interrupting them!
Peter Hill :
He is no Charlie Rose;
Thank goodness.
Mr. Anderson is a respectful man who listens to the answer to his question, regardless how long it takes.
he is the ex leader of a political party, served as Deputy Prime Minister
Very good point - I was almost subconsciously wondering why I was enjoying the interview so much - you put it in a nutshell, thanks.
@@keithjenkinson7825 A politician who listens is even more remarkable than an interviewer who does.
This interview should be mainstream. Let's keep sharing this until it hits a million views.
An outstanding interview Melanie you are one of my heroes and I salute you for your contribution in educating us about the tyranny that is at the door. You are in my prayers God Bless you.
Excellent analysis. Melanie a gem. Great questions from Anderson.
Glad Melanie is getting platformed all over the place , big fan .
Huge fan of Melanie Phillips, straight talking, fearless and absolutely slays the politically correct wimps..
Keep on doing what your doing Mel. Your fan club is ginormous.
she's a liar and a Zio stooge
marvellous, thanks again John for the terrific work you're doing letting these voices be heard
A very smart lady. She superbly describes the situations.
she's a racist
@@kevinherbert4256 Try to stop saying that because it has no effect on intelligent people. Go back into your sheep flock. I'll be you couldn't even give a coherent explanation of what racism is. You only shout out the word from an empty head.
Such a joy to listen to this woman who is saying things that are to many of us, reality..... and which we havnt heard for a very long time except from a very few e.g. Douglas Murray.....
Today's Jeremiah! Melanie understands the determined ignorance, implacable resistance to commonsense, and the visceral hatred and intimidation Jeremiah experienced. Praying for this incredible gutsy lady!
agreed!
I love the book of Jeremiah!
This lady hits the nail on the head! What she is describing is exactly what is going on! I can’t even have a real conversation with my grandson or my best friend anymore. It is heartbreaking! Horrifying to watch American ideals not being passed down to generations. God help us!
Melanie Phillips is absolutely spot on!
I keep coming back to this interview. Thank you John and Melanie. It gives so much clarity to the situation we are currently facing here in Australia
This woman just articulated the “why” I’ve been unable to pin down. I could not explain why this insidious war on western society had begun. She nailed it. She states quite clearly the reduction of education to ideology, but fails to mention the corruption of our judicial system with the same ideology.
I was thinking the same thing myself: The first 15 minutes is a summary of what, why and how it all started to go wrong. The 'pin down' is what keeps me listening to these debates about the culture wars: Melanie does it brilliantly
She's a perfect example of Zionist ethno-supremacism propaganda in full flight...what a load of psychobabble.......given that an increasing majority of UK Jews do not accept this Zionist tosh in 2020...as shown by the predominantly Jewish Golders Green electorate refusing to elect the Zionist stooge MP Lucian Berger in the last election...indeed..all of the Zionist aligned UK Change Labour MP deserters, were not re-elected in the recent elections....says it all really....
Agreed, and I have felt this in the British education system as well.
@@acohen1980 What are you saying. Not everyone lives or understand the British Politic. I understand what she is saying about the left. Maybe you live in the Left.
She didn’t mention the courts specifically but the courts are part of the institutions taken over by the Left.
Thank you both John and Melanie, outstanding interview. Everyone who desires to live a fully fair and free life badly needs to watch and listen to this.
I used to believe Melanie Phillips to be a beyond-the-pale reactionary. I now realise she is absolutely correct. Very powerful interview indeed. Frightening really.
It sounds like you - like me - had to "think the unthinkable" - to get (literally) to the other side. It's often a worthwhile exercise just for itself, you don't always have to accept the results, but they usually are interesting.
Me too. I used to think she was vile.
The only thing vile and frightening is the level of abuse she faces from very powerful forces. How she copes, I have no idea. She is one of a handful of very brave commentators.
Bullshit.
#MeToo... I was going out with a lefty woman, she introduced me to "Meanie" as the Devil. Now I realise Melanie was right all along and she'd been slandered.
Melanie Phillips has explains our current cultural problems to me, so extremely well. This is great.
I have to keep reminding myself that this is just before the pandemic, before the overt censorship on social media (sort of), before the release of the twitter files etc. this interview has perfectly articulated everything I see today.
How have I never seen this lady speaking at length before? Like finding a diamond in the attic.
Agreed, her interview with CSPAN was also great.
Me too,just fond her on youtube yesterday,very happy :)
Maybe you are too young Richard. She had a column for many years in the Daily Mail I think. I used to love to read her comments back then.
Agree, read her books if you haven't yet, she has a great perspective. She is not afraid to speak her own mind and says it like it is.
Because you weren't listening to BBC Radio4 Moral Maze
This lady should be PM
In Israel!
Absolutely brilliant analysis. Timely in 2022-23
We need clear-thinking people like Melanie Phillips in politics.. she's wasted as a journalist. She summed up the UK political leadership vacuum beautifully..
She should be PM
I think we e got o e in Boris.... hopefully 🙏
Melanie is in the right career. As a politician she would be straightjacketed into the party philosophies.
I only discovered Melanie today and I'm a fan already.
Her website is excellent. Also, I highly recommend "Guardian Angel". Peter Whittle's interviews are excellent. They're called "So what you're saying is". Melanie has been a guest. There's also another podcast,"Triggernometry", well worth watching. After 58 years , I've given upon the BBC.
@@deborahrobertson8606 The BBC is nothing more tha a glogalist propaganda mouth piece. Litteraly everyone from the prersenters to the celebs that work there have a tag line they NEVER deviate from. they're like a tentical of a Bond vilains organization. the head of the organization being a certain multibillionair, i wonder if you can guess who I'm refering to. yea OK i'm going all conspiracy theory on you now but just for fun.
Found her today its amazing what she has to say. Except when it comes to religion then im off again like many of these people.
@@deborahrobertson8606 Thanks for those insights. I have watched a few of "So What You're Saying Is" but haven't seen the one with Melanie yet but will do now as I'm a great fan of her and that prog. Not heard of "Triggernometry" but will look it up, thanks.
What a smart great lady. She should be in Downing Street.
"What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed" Superb, thank you.
I so LOVE Melanie Philips and have for years since "The Worlds Upside Down". Here in the US she is to me a voice of reason and a voice of truth for us in Western Civilisation. As someone in the Jewish community in the UK I could only wish that she would have an influence in the Jewish community who remain on the far left here in the US .
I read this Lady's columns over many years , as a teenager then young man, I was a fan then and remain so. I'm 53 now and admire still.
Melanie has such a wonderful way of putting reality into words and holding you onto her conversation and agreeing wholeheartedly, such an intelligent mind. Thankfully there are those on social media who are really standing up for our civilisation, but like Melanie says, they don’t get the platform through msm or academia without being vilified. Now the EU is doing all they can to stop the spread of western thoughts on social media with the new copyright/censorship laws. love your interviews John, you speak to my current day hero’s, I hope those in parliament listen to them also.
She also has a wonderful way of putting fantasy into words.
@@ha-dt4or And you have a most excellent way of acting like a moron. Well done indeed.
@Georgia: there is no stopping what is currently happening. The radical left owns all the high ground. I fear we will have to pass through rather than avoid what is coming.
The ones I feel most sorry for are the ones sold the bill of goods. Those folks do not understand the endgame.. The Gulag Archipelago outlines what the endgame looks like very well indeed.l
What a great channel. I missed Melanie Philips and her sharp insights.
Excellent interview. And yes, I knew what I was voting for when I voted for Brexit. If social media is correct, Jordan Peterson will not be going to Cambridge uni as planned because of students protest. I thought university education was all about broadening the mind? Yes, the west is going under!
LancashireLass NowUpNorth
glub, glub, glub;
going down with the ship.
Not if Trump has his way
Just found her, thank you, youtube. She's amazing, and now one of my heroes.
31:31 Their lives are rooted in reality" Melanie you are brilliant .
Clear and reality-based review of how we arrived at our modern predicament in the West. Makes all of the moves by our governments much easier to understand. They are not inept. They are on plan. Thank you, Ms. Phillips, for your wisdom.
This interview is of a very high quality. I just discover Melanie Philips. She gave such a deep analysis that it’s easy. to understand
what we are living today. Why don’t we have people like that in government? We are losing so much all over the world because
of this ideology that sounds more and more like a new religion.
Melanie's explanation in the first 10 mins of the UK and Europe postwar is superb
Read "All Must Have Prizes"-- she is well read.
@23:22. "If there's no such thing as objective truth, there's no such thing as a lie." That explains a great deal about the quality of modern discourse.
Indeed
Love this interview. Great conversation and very relevant in 2020 where i sit and listen today.
Amazing woman! God Bless her! 🙏🙏🙏
Most eloquent and knowledgeable speaker I have ever heard.
My favorite Australian and favorite British journalist. Groovy
I am reminded of C.S. Lewis's book, "That Hideous Strength." Thank God it ended well. May our struggle end well. I also thank God for Melanie Phillips who can articulate the concerns on these matters so intelligently and fearlessly.
Such an "awakening" conversation. God Bless you both.
A Real WoMan... I adore this lady !
Outstanding Interview - Thank You !
Melanie's observations match my own. The words of Yuri Besmenov and John Birch ring in my ears as I see what is taking pace n in the West today.
It makes the mind boggle how people can turn their backs on the truth.
Just the WAY she speaks. It's so rare and so perfect. What an exceptional role model..
Very wise lady and I totally agree with her shame this is not televised
At the same time, we should be grateful that such deep interviews are available on TH-cam.
Keep it up John. Excellent series. Much is wrong with internet discourse, but the demand for the intelligent long form interview is high. Bravo!
I've always liked this Woman and she is spot on here.. Thank goodness for her clarity honesty and a certain bravery I say.
Read "All Must Have Prizes"-- explains so much of the decay in education and society. Really opened my eyes.
I so love all your interviews.
I am proud of the British national identity and when the final fight comes I, along with many others, am more than willing to play my part. I am waiting and preparing.
The British people won the first battle on a Thursday. Thank heavens for democracy.
I have just had the pleasure of listening to Ms. Melanie's discussion. The lady is utterly charming, euridite with a deep spiritual grasp of the situstion and the moral courage to articulate same. Most enjoyable listening to her.
Thank you Melanie Philips how really illuminating and as it has turned out now 2023 England passed that test and left the European Union.I am also impressed with our charming and admirable John Anderson that he obviously very much appreciates what you have to say.Thank you both so much.🌹
This person needs to be listened to. She articulates what I have been feeling for decades now. I particularly resonate with her idea that she had not left the liberal Left, the Left has left her.
Agreed, she resonates with so many.
She’s one smart woman. Beautifully explained.
This woman speaks common sense.
What a fabulous interview. Thank you John & Melanie. It starts to explain for me why good people who are products of the university system think the way they do.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. MP erudite as always, JA (as always), the quiet optimist, getting the best out of his interviewees...they might have quoted, "If there is hope it lies In the proles". It didn't work out well for Winston Smith though did it? Tortured eventually, into painful, dull eyed somnolence, passivity and slavery - serious words all of them.
Very captivating. It uncovers what is rotten in British politics. Thanks for this.
Melanie Phillips is brilliant. Also I love the music at the beginning.
I'd say that the most important thing to do right now is to tell that the People is right. They sense this but they need to be sure
Fantastic interview. I love JA. He is amazing because he allows his guests to talk. re: this interview, the chickens came home to roost in the December 2019 election when the left was truly and quite rightly spanked within an inch of its life. Hopefully, Corbyn has destroyed Labour for good. We (I am a traditional conservative) tolerated the insults and name calling, even from our own friends and family with frenzied, illogical arguments, backed up increasingly from the MSM. The internet allows us to access proper debate and discourse and they (the left) find themselves wanting in almost every case when investigated or put under scrutiny. The silent majority rose up. Frankly we got fed up with the insults and accusations of being nazis and bigots. We are not nazis and bigots. Thank you
Another Brit here-- completely agree. The glorious irony of the election result in December 2019 was that Corbyn should have been an ally to many conservative-minded socialists in the North. He supported Brexit far longer than Boris Johnson. He wanted to re-nationalise the railways, bringing to mind an important conversation about selling our industries to foreign nations. But Corbyn completely squandered this, through his genuflecting to the same progressive dogmas that his traditional voters found repellent and threatening to British culture. Furthermore, I would add his shameful handling of anti-Semitism in his party also helped seal his doom. But this just goes to show that traditional conservatives can span both ends of the political spectrum.
Melanie Phillips...you are a light....
This is third interview of her that I’ve read, and second today and only 10 minutes in, had to add her two recent books to my shopping cart on Amazon!
She is an excellent writer.
Erudite. Considered. Outstanding. Melanie is a bright light in this dark and murky world.
Excellent interview..she's.absolutely correct.
Brilliant and brave woman.
Thanks, Melanie. Great Interview, Mr Anderson. Best wishes friom Indonesia
What a sensible, well-spoken lady! Thanks for the interview!
Thank you Melanie! ...I'm tryin' to think up some other thanks for John but that's takin' me longer!
I'm watching this in 2020 on the 1st of September. Its quite profound how accurate she is a year earlier. Re watch to make yourself incensed as we are on the precipice.
What a brilliant mind and how wonderfully articulate. I only discovered her video interviews a few days ago but I find her an enormous inspiration and a brilliantly clear analyst.
ha ha ha ha...she's a Zio stooge...a racist
Melanie Phillips was very critical of Trump in the early days, but demonstrated a level of humility and realism about him in this interview which means she has the capacity to learn rather than just stick to rigid views. I respect her for that.
For an excellent analysis of the underlying philosophy of our day, Post-Modernism, I highly recommend "Explaining Post-Modernism" by Stephen Hicks. It's even available as a pdf on line
What a wonderful mind.
Melanie Phillips always makes clear distinctions, does not exploit slogans, and does not glamourise her own side. You can tell that her progress from the Left to conservatism is motivated only by conviction. You can see this in her devastatingly clear critique of Margaret Thatcher, revered by conservatives on both sides of the pond. When conservatives get it wrong, she says so. As a result, you can be sure when listening to Phillips, that she has thought through her views independent of trends. Phillips also has a wonderful way of explaining things that many others only feel, but can never put into words.
While lucid and well-read (unsurprisingly, she attended Oxford University), she never looks down on those with less eloquence and education. In fact, she takes what they feel and gives it clear expression, causing you to say, "Aha! *That's* what was going on! That's what I have felt all along!" Her CSPAN interview is excellent in this regard. I have "All Must Have Prizes" on my bookshelf, which has opened my eyes to the calamity in education, which I *knew* was going on, but I could not understand why. Sadly, nothing has changed since she wrote that damning book.
Many thanks to John Anderson for making such a quality interview available to us.
Liberty... what is it? I would say liberty is freedom within the bounds of responsibility.
Brian GC - I like your definition.
this is still relevant,thankyou to the working class.
2:41 The difference between Common Law and Civil Law. The Common Law system was exported to the Anglosphere: Canada, Australia, most of the USA, New Zealand etc.
South Africa?
Brilliant discussion
Wow, Truth Overload!!!
racist overload...she's a fraud
This lady should be made a,Dame .God bless her.
Dame of Tel Aviv
Yes possibly but you have to admit she does speak sense
But I understand your opinion.
Such an important interview! Thank you!
Excellent, thank you both
Melanie Philips, I love you. You are may be the leader Great Britain needs. I would vote for you, I would advocate for you from the top of Ben Nevis.
Her explanation on 27:55 was exactly what happened when she appeared on BBC question time last week when Nish Kumar couldn't prove what he was pontificating.
chidera James diversity box ticking by the BBC...
You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in it's mouth... We must leave, today.. no deal.
Great interview. Thank you
Wow! John, Melanie, come to the United States. Tell us your story. Maybe we will listen to unacceptable prophets for our future.
I think Melanie Phillips has done interviews in America. She did an extensive interview with C-SPAN.
@1:20: "... Freedom...... Is it Safe? Is it Secure?" That is an awesome and vital question, especially as I write from August 2020. It also reminds me of a quote from Gandalf in the first "Lord of the Rings" movie: "Is it secret? Is it safe?" Today, more than ever, I think a radical-left "Sauron" is making a move for global power.
Crazy how relevant this has become a year later. Scary.
John's videos deserve more views. The balanced, enlightened perspective with a stable host, is worth 1,000x more than another inflammatory talking head with nothing to say.
Amazing thinker and speaker. Thank God for Phillips, Paglia, Sommers, the guys (Haidt, Pinker, Harris, Murray, Peterson, Weinstein). I'm gay, so disagree with her regarding parenting (multiple studies demonstrate there is no difference on impact on children with straight or gay parents; though agree 2 is double the help as a team, but that is not always possible in life), but feel she would respect me as an individual and my life and perspective; really Phillips is a real treasure for England.
Watching this a year later in Nov 19, it is very interesting to see Britain has a leader who is trying to take the nation with him. Reason for hope?
I am not convinced that there is reason for hope yet. Sounded good on the surface but the media onslaught on Nigel/Brexit Party shows there is a concerted effort to castigate a clean break Brexit and put through 95% of Mrs May's deal unchanged. We shall see - I was a conservative for over 40 years - no longer.
Superb. Thank you.
Even within my own extended family, there are some who make it abundantly clear that they regard me - a 'leave' the EU voter - as MORALLY inferior to them, because I did not vote as they did. This is accomplished with a sneering disdain, a "so, what you're saying is......." type of response, and the occasional 'sigh'. There is an 'hauteur' to them, which I will never be able to forgive, or forget; even when BREXIT is honoured (as it will be; even if it takes a General Election to "drain the swamp"!). When you speak of the Church of England as having utterly failed to counter our militant secularism, you neglect to mention the calibre of our bishops these days. Gone are the great theologians and scientists who used to form the Bench of Bishops. In their place are academic lightweights; who cannot even perceive the difference between two historical figures (Jesus of Nazareth and Mohammed) as revelatory exemplars of the divine. They are as different as chalk and cheese; and yet modern bishops - especially the female ones - view them as of equal revelatory status! These are VERY stupid people: and they have the temerity to claim that they have been 'called' by the Father.
Mark Dyer you should make it clear that they are intellectually inferior to you ;)
Political Correctness is madness mate, and that’s why I voted to leave... Islamic Terrorism? Oh I can’t refer to verses like 9:29 in the Quran which state:
“Fight those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled”
And when read in conjunction with the previous verse and Hadith, literally means what it states.
I can’t then study the life of Muhammad, and the fact his prophetic career is split into two, the time initially in Mecca where he converted next to nobody for many years then the time in Medina where he began raiding trade caravans and building up an army, before returning to conquer Mecca.
And that the above verse is in the later Medina period, and therefore abrogates (cancels out) the earlier ones which are deemed peaceful...
Now what happens when numbers reach 20-30%, then I’m affraid as demonstrated throughout history, conflict ensues, Lebanon being a recent example during the 1970s
@@JonJon-rz5el Thanks Jon Jon!
The destruction of reason... Nailed it.
Just noticed the date of this interview. I'm watching it in Sept 2020. They ain't seen nothing yet.