http://www.stephenpollard.net/ "Never knowingly understated" en-us 2007-06-19T14:07:27+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003254.html Politics, a long-deceased British statesman once said, is the art of the possible. For Gordon Brown, who takes over as the U.K.'s prime minister on June 27, politics is going to be the art of the impossible. Imminently, Mr. Brown... UK politics Stephen Pollard 2007-06-19T14:07:27+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003253.html The following piece of mine is in today's Jewish Chronicle: How ironic that the fortieth anniversary of Israel’s victory in the Six Day War should fall between the publication of the Winograd Commission’s interim and final reports into last year’s... Stephen Pollard 2007-06-01T14:29:59+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003252.html The following Notebook of mine is in today's Times: Saturday is the 150th anniversary of Sir Edward Elgar’s birth. That’s Elgar as in the greatest British composer of the past 250 years. The composer of the finest cello concerto in... Stephen Pollard 2007-05-31T14:27:07+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003251.html The following piece of mine is in today's Times: I have never eaten a Velázquez. Or a Picasso, come to that. But I have eaten an Adrià. And it was pretty tasty. Never heard of the Spanish artist Ferran Adrià?... Food and drink Stephen Pollard 2007-05-17T07:48:38+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003250.html The following piece of mine is in today's Daily Mail: No one can deny that our state education system today is shamefully bad, with one in five school leavers functionally illiterate and able pupils left to fester in sink schools.... Education Stephen Pollard 2007-05-17T07:41:31+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003249.html The following piece of mine appears in The Spectator's supplement, 'Blair: A Modern Tragedy': New Labour had its limits, even in 1997. Those limits were made flesh by the appointment of Frank Dobson as Tony Blair’s first Health Secretary. For... Health Stephen Pollard 2007-05-10T11:03:33+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003248.html The following column of mine is in today's Times: Tony Blair is not the only one to have a tenth anniversary. In 1997, a book I wrote on class was published. A Class Act argued that for the first two... Stephen Pollard 2007-05-05T08:12:29+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003247.html So now I can reveal the big tease over the past weeks. I'm moving sites and becoming the Spectator's blogger. Clive Davis is doing the same thing, the idea being my site will be the 'front half' of the magazine... Stephen Pollard 2007-05-02T19:00:45+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003246.html I'm afraid I don't have a link for this, but I have just been sent a press release on a debate held last night at the Oxford Union: 66% OF OXFORD UNION AUDIENCE BELIEVE THE PRO-ISRAELI LOBBY STIFLES WESTERN DEBATE... Middle East Stephen Pollard 2007-05-02T16:15:09+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003245.html Peter Briffa speaks for me: "Tories are promising tax and spending cuts up and down the country if they win. Rightwing ideologues took over Hammersmith and Fulham a year ago from a well-run Labour group, cutting council tax by 3p,... UK politics Stephen Pollard 2007-05-02T09:22:18+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003244.html It's always instructive to go by what people say, rather than the perception of them that mainstream opinion holds. So here's a question to those who say that Hamas is moderating in office - that the reality of authority is... Anti-semitism Stephen Pollard 2007-05-01T22:59:43+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003243.html What a wonderful night! What a wonderful week! First Chelsea lose the Premiership, and now they've been bundled out of the Champions League. Fingers crossed there'll be more good news at the end of the season and they'll get... Footie Stephen Pollard 2007-05-01T22:47:22+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003242.html Whatever the rights and wrongs of the original story, the fact is that Lord Browne had admitted that he lied under oath. I can't think of a single reason why he should not be prosecuted for perjury. It's clearly in... Crime and punishment Stephen Pollard 2007-05-01T19:34:36+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003241.html The Yazzmonster thinks bloggers are 'malign creeps'. Malign creep. Hmmm. Now which Independent columnist might that phrase be applied to? And she has been affronted by the behaviour of two people recently: One came disgracefully late to dinner the other... Buffoons Stephen Pollard 2007-04-30T17:53:54+00:00 http://www.stephenpollard.net/003240.html Never let it be said the French are not perceptive people: PARIS (Reuters) - The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday. The survey of six nations, carried out... Europe Stephen Pollard 2007-04-30T10:18:12+00:00