Hey there. Lea Liya Leibowitz here, and welcome back to Ruthless.

My guest today, the journalist Melanie Phillips, has spent decades hearing that she is wrong,

that she is a racist and Islamophob, a bigot.

Few believed her reports about Britain strangely succumbing to movements and ideas

that believe the exact opposite

of what traditional Western liberal values believe.

So when reports started coming out of large-scale gangs,

comprised mainly of men of Pakistani heritage, grooming and brutally raping tens of thousands

of British girls, some as young as 12.

It took the United Kingdom a long time to believe the reports and even longer to do anything

about it.

Now, as Melanie tells us in her terrific new book, The Builders Stone, we have no choice

but to fight for the survival of the West, a fight in which Jews and Jewish values

are as ever critical. Melanie, welcome to Ruthless. Hello, Liel, such a pleasure and

privileged to be with you. Pleasure is all mine, been a fan for a very long time. I have a million

things I want to talk to you about, but the first is kind of baffling and it's very, very timely because we read in the

papers about all sorts of very, very, very strange things happening.

Tell us, what the heck is going on in England these days?

Well, what's going on is that an extremely unpopular government has been elected at the last

general election with a staggeringly large parliamentary majority. Get your head around that for a start.

But this is a Labour government which has gone kind of in the opposite direction to the so-called

populist movements that we've seen in Europe,

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