In this clip, Melanie Phillips takes aim at some of Britain's long-standing institutions, including the BBC, the Church of England, the monarchy. She argues that the British Establishment which has operated and supported these cornerstones of British life has been complicit in the erosion of moral consensus and objectivity. The education system, she points out, has been an active participant in this.

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Melanie Phillips' column currently appears in The Times, but over the years she has been published by 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 by Encounter, New York. 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. This is the third time she and John have sat down to talk.

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