Melanie Newman
Melanie Newman is a freelance journalist who trained as a lawyer. She writes on legal, health and other issues for a range of publications. She tweets at @Melanie_Newman
The parent trap
Are social workers targeting mothers who serve frozen meals?
The trans rights that trump all
Julie Bindel and Melanie Newman say women’s rights were not considered in legislation that allows trans people to effectively decide their own gender
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Sir David Attenborough at sea
RRS Sir David Attenborough is a ship worthy of the great man’s name
The knife and the bone
After war and repression, Iranian dissidents believe the regime’s reckoning is near — but Tehran’s influence reaches far beyond its borders
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
