Sorry, Melanie, this is Goodbye. I finally Part Company with Melanie Phillips.

Long ago, I saw Melanie Phillips as an ally against many of the follies of the modern world. In the following years, we have grown apart especially over the Iraq war on which she seemed to me to have been gravely mistaken. I have had one or two other quarrels with her. But now it is the end.

Alas, though I may continue to agree with her on one or two specific subjects, I must declare a formal, irrevocable rift. In the greatest national controversy of our lives, she has taken the side of panic...