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Guardian Angel

My Journey from Leftism to Sanity

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Guardian Angel

By: Melanie Phillips
Narrated by: Anna Cordell
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About this listen

Guardian Angel is that rare memoir that grabs you by the shoulders with an urgency that screams, “Pay attention!”

It leaps to life with an immediacy and relevance that few books achieve.

Beginning with her solitary childhood in London, it took years for Melanie Phillips to understand her parents’ emotional frailties and even longer to escape from them. But Phillips inherited her family’s strong Jewish values and a passionate commitment to freedom from oppression.

Through her poignant story of transformation and separation, we gain insight into the political uproar that has engulfed the West. Britain’s vote to leave the EU, the rise of far-Right political parties in Europe, and the stunning election of Donald Trump all involve a revolt against the elites by millions.

Guardian Angel is not only an affecting personal story, but it provides a vital explanation why the West is at a critical crossroads today.

©2018 Melanie Phillips (P)2020 W F Howes Political Science Politicians Politics & Activism Politics & Government Liberalism Iran Middle East Socialism

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Critic reviews

“Melanie Phillips has been one of the brave and necessary voices of our time, unafraid to speak the language of moral responsibility in an age of obfuscation and denial." (Jonathan Sack)

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I have always liked Melanie on the BBC’s Moral Maze and only realised after reading this book that she has such a deep and well thought out position on the topics she touches.

More of Melanie needed please….. look forward to more from the author on Audible.

Better than expected…

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On first hearing the narrator's voice I was disappointed it was not the author's, having heard Phillips impressive interview style just prior. However, soon it mattered not as the content was so compelling. Philips speaks of things that so many of us in Britain know to be true. What was so shocking is that she recognized the dangers in permissive education, unengaged fathers, Middle-Eastern terrorism and the shameful racism of anti-semitism in the media, so long ago, in the early 90s!
But even if that content does not excite one's fascination, it's story worth telling of a world-class journalist's bagatelle journey through England's newspaper landscape over the past 40 years. With Phillip's early history and family story weaved into the work, it has a third string to it's bow as an autobiography, compete enough to give a good understanding of what makes this fine journalist.tick and why she followed her path.

insightful, brave & honest

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A compelling memoir that had me hooked from start to finish. A must read (or listen) for anyone trying to make sense of what is happening in British politics and culture over the last three decades.

Fearless assessment of the far left in the UK.

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Melanie's love of Britain and its people as well as her commitment to telling truth clearly warrant her status as public enemy number one. This is about the most anti-establishment book imaginable!

Her story doesn't only devastate the reputation of the Guardian but the entire "intellectual" sphere of the left.

Thank you Melanie and more power to you!

Brave and brutally honest

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A must read if you value our cultural values and wish to maintain our way of life

A must read

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