I have just read journalist Melanie Phillips’ autobiography, Guardian Angel: My Journey from Leftism to Sanity, published by Bombardier Books in the US. The title is typically robust and challenging, much as her views have always been; as a courageous, counter-cultural voice I have often agreed with Phillips’s viewpoint when I have heard her speak on The Moral Maze and elsewhere. Her book charts her move from a Left-wing ideological position on every social and political question to where she is now: neither on the Right nor the Left but “a Jew who believes in making the world a better place and a journalist who believes in speaking truth to power.”