It's when you're down and out that you find out who your friends are. Take a moment, then, to consider visiting the new website of conservative Daily Mail columnist, author and blogger Melanie Phillips. Ms. Phillips just exited the Spectator's blog under highly shrouded circumstances. Fleet Street is abuzz. Was it journalistic error?  Or political persecution?  It's simply impossible to get at the facts. At the bottom of it all appears to be the British ruling class' eroding support for Israel -- a phenomenon not unknown elsewhere in the West.  Like Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post and Pam Geller of atlasshrugs.com, Ms. Phillips has proved herself to be a great Lioness of Judah in resisting the rot. As such, in today's Western Europe, Melanie Phillips stands out. As one gleeful Muslim website recounts, this wasn't the first time Ms. Phillips' enemies got a piece of her fur.  This second time, a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission was not acted on....(Read Full Post)