Melanie Philips is now two for two.
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Orac (a US blogger on ScienceBlogs) has stumbled across this article and has identified the Clinically Sane One as an example of a particular type:
"A while back, Mark Hoofnagle coined a term that I like very much: Crank magnetism. To boil it down to its essence, crank magnetism is the phenomenon in which a person who is a crank in one area very frequently tends to be attracted to crank ideas in other, often unrelated areas. ... Mark had coined a punchy, clever term to describe the tendency. I stashed it away to be used when I feel the need.
I feel the need now.
You see, I just came across an article by a certain British pundit named Melanie Phillips ... "
US citizens have a succinct way with our language, do they not? One of Orac's commentors says (apropos her image in the Spittator, I think):
"Holy crap that woman has crazy eyes. I'd cross the street to avoid her."
More reactions from a stunned nation here