Melissa Kite is a British journalist, and current columnist for The Spectator, and GQ magazine. She has also written articles for several other newspapers, including the Daily Mail, and was deputy political editor of The Sunday Telegraph until March 2011. Kite divides her time between homes in London and Surrey. She appeared as a panelist on the 22 March 2012 edition of the BBC television programme Question Time which was broadcast from the coastal town of Grimsby in North East Lincolnshire. On the show she told the audience the Queen was "terrific value for money" following a question on whether it was time for the UK to consider becoming a republic.