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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Should you be so minded, you can read an interview with me which appeared in last week's House Magazine, conducted by the Labour MP Alan Whitehead.
Page 1 is here and page 2 here.
(There are a couple of errors: I don't write for the Daily Express, and I am happy to be described as a journalist because that's what I am!).
MessageSpace
Is Pollard on the Left?
It is not uncommon to find Jewish intellectuals who [in British political terms] are on the Right, but who describe themselves as on the Left. I suppose it has something to do with the notion that to be Jewish is to be an outsider, rejected by blood and soil nationalists.
There is a difference however between liberalism and being on the Left. Although many secular Jews are on the Left – presumably because they are looking for a substitute religion – anti-Semitism is most commonly found on the illiberal Left.
On the Right a few Christian intellectuals sometimes hint at anti-Semitism, but since the demise of Christianity if Jew hatred is your thing your natural home these days [if you are not a Muslim] is on the Left.
In British political terms Pollard is clearly [to everybody except himself] on the Right, but that says more about the dominance of the Left in Europe [in politically backward bits of Europe like Scotland and the Ukraine the choice is essentially between between two sorts of Leftism - nationalist or internationalist] than it does about his liberalism.
By liberalism I mean of course [roughly speaking] the opposite of anything advocated by the Liberal Democrats or Labour. I can just imagine what his fellow Fabians thought about his views on free markets!
Alternatively, you could spend your time watching Martha Stewart
show Borat how to make a bed on the Tonight Show.