It is now an archive for my newspaper and magazine pieces. My blog can now be read at: www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard
Politics, economics and culture from the master. Unmissable.
Melanie Phillips home page
Melanie Phillips' peerless blog. Read, and learn.
Daniel Finkelstein's Times Comment Central
A daily must-read.
Tim Worstall
Lots of interesting nibbles - and a ruthless swatter of economic gibberish.
Harry's Place
Must-read left of centre blog from writers who understand the threat to the West.
Clive Davis
Always interesting selection of culture and politics, from an Anglo-American bent.
Samizdata
Libertarian blog, packed every day.
Norm's blog
The thoroughly sensible thoughts of renowned left-wing academic Norman Geras, Professor of Government at Manchester. And cricket, too.
Public Interest
Peter Briffa's inimitable take on The Yazzmonster and other assorted demons.
Reform
The public sector reform group; their website is an invaluable source of data and ideas.
Centre for the New Europe
The leading European public policy think tank.
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Here's an amazing thing. I'm listening to Talking Politics on Radio 4 at the moment, on the subject of Western intervention, and the programme is entirely sensible. After interviews with Rory Stewart and William Hague, the round-table discussion is between Amir Taheri, Alan Mendoza and Robert Fox. Fox is very wrong on the big issues - and insufferably pompous and patronising (I used to do a regular radio slot with him) - but he is at least a man of intelligence and knowledge.
Not a single friend of Saddam, not a single West-hater and not a single fellow traveller of terrorism.
Wonders will never cease.
MessageSpace
As long as it is on radio, they imagine it cannot do much harm. The test is going to be how soon sensible views are allowed on prime-time TV.
