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 on the idiot that is Mark Steel (one of those unfunny 'comedians' who think that saying 'Labour is just like the Tories' is a side-splittingly original witticism):
So far, they've only gone part way down this route, for example by placing a series of businessmen from companies such as Deloitte and Touche on NHS boards.Clearly appalling when we have people who understand accountancy helping to run something that swallows 9% of the entire nation's output.
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Listen mate, considering the screaming fuck-up that our accountancy-trained Secretary of State for Health has made of the NHS, I think we could not have done worse if we had picked the first bum from the park benches. Besides, these great experts are those who continuously failed to spot all the fraudsters from Robert Maxwell to the pension missellers, until all the money was gone. Trust a rattlesnake before a politician, but trust ten politicians before a Big Four accountant.
