Oh, what would we do without Melanie Phillips, the Daily Mail's matriarch of all moralisers, the grumpy woman who has transformed fury into an art form?
When a story such as the three teenage mothers living with their mother, Julie Atkins, and their babies in a council house in Derby arrives in all its grotesque glory, you can rely on Ms Phillips: it helps to know, then you'll know you're not thinking what she's thinking.
In case you've given up buying the Mail because it is so horrible, let me remind you. Ms Phillips crowns Ms Atkins as the worst mother in the world.
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