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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Tim Worstall nails the argument for the licence fee put forward by Will Hutton (and pretty much everyone else who believes in putting people in prison if they don't hand over the cash to pay for Strictly Come Dancing):
The poor should be hit with a regressive tax so that I, a wealthy upper middle class type, can get the TV I like.
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No dafter than expecting a cleaner in Widnes or a factory worker in Sheffield to subsidise Mr. Pollard's trips to the opera.
The BBC and opera companies should stand on their own feet. And if they can't, they should go tits up like all other failed businesses.
And I feel exactly the same way about art galleries and museums.
Ooh you phillistine!
"Ooh you phillistine!"
Not at all. I just don't see why my pleasures - anyone's pleasures - should be paid for out of the public purse.
Socialism is such a very ugly thing. Socialism has been responsible for the impoverishment and deaths of more people than any other ideology. I suppose it was inevitable that the adherents of an ideology so repellent should become the leading proponents of anti-Semitism.