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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I don't think I've ever read a piece by Bryan Appleyard that hasn't made me think. Typically, his piece in last Sunday's Sunday Times on blogging is full of insights and stimulation. Do have a read. (And I recommend a look at his excellent blog.)
MessageSpace
Many thanks, Stephen.
Characterising Web 2.0 (which term I abhor) as being about journalism is typical of the solipsistic, nay onanistic, viewpoint of the typical ink-stained wretch, who can only see the world through a lens that has him in the shot. The freedom that the Internet represents does not exist in the abstract expression of op-ed columnists and those latter-day pamphleteers, the bloggers. It exists in the hundredfold reduction in transaction costs that a widget maker enjoys when he's sourcing raw materials or scouting for buyers. It exists in the ability of a housewife in Bangalore to get insurance quotes from a company in Bremerhaven. The scads and gobs of opinion that make up the visible epidermis of the Internet are transient, trivial and usually spurious. Walmart's automated supply-chain management or Pricewatch's consumer electronics quote aggregation, on the other hand, are for the Age.