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| | Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The changing face of Melanie Phillips |
 | | Phillips is different from the other middle-aged men and women with scowling picture bylines: because of her background, her choice of subject, and the quality of her anger. |
 | | When Phillips says that modern liberals are "false" and "corrupted", and that "the left have become parasites on decline and disintegration", the biblical language she uses seems sincere, not metaphorical. |
 | | Phillips' increasingly apocalyptic worldview, he says, has come from seeing her ideas about how Britain should be reformed, acquired from years of dogged social-policy reporting, frustrated by the inevitable compromises and evasions of democratic governments. |
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