Stephen Pollard



Profile:
Full name: Stephen Pollard

Area of interest: Politics, Society, Health, Education

Journals/Organisation: The Jewish Chronicle | Daily Express | The Times

Email: [mailto:stephen@stephenpollard.net stephen@stephenpollard.net]

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Blog: http://www.thejc.com/blogs/stephen-pollard | http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/stephen-pollard

Representation: http://authors.simonandschuster.co.uk/Stephen-Pollard/65784563

Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/stephenpollard



Biography:
About: Stephen Pollard is a writer and journalist author of a biography of David Blunkett and co-author (with Andrew Adonis) of A Class Act: the Myth of Britain’s Classless Society (Penguin). He has written for The Times and Daily Mail and now writes a column for the Daily Express. He was once described by the The Sunday Times as a New Labour "guru", but by the New Statesman as a leading "British neo-conservative". He is a former Chairman of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and a former president of the Centre for the New Europe, a free-market think tank based in Brussels

Education: John Lyon School; Mansfield College, Oxford

Career: Fabian Society: Research Director (specialising in health and education policy), 1992/1995; Social Market Foundation: Head of Research, 1995-98; Daily Express: Columnist and Chief Leader Writer, 1998/2001; currently blogs at The Spectator and is a guest contributor at The Times Current position/role: Editor of The Jewish Chronicle, regular Daily Express columnist


 * also writes/written for: written columns for several publications, including The Times and the Daily Mail, and also maintains a blog.

Other roles/Main role: Previously a Visiting Lecturer in Health Policy at Harvard Business School, and an Associate Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington DC; was a signatory founder of the Henry Jackson Society, 2005; is currently President of Brussels based think tank The Centre for the New Europe

Other activities: author

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight: [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1375237.ece It’s unfair. My argument should be as loud as yours] The Times, 13th February 2007

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Controversy/Criticism:
 * Coded message sent to Richard Desmond in final article for Daily Express, see: Kathryn Hughes Who gives a Friar Tuck? The Observer, 14th January 2001
 * Neil Clark blog: The mind of Stephen Pollard 2nd January 2007

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Books & Debate:
Books: A Class Act: the Myth of Britain’s Classless Society (co-author Andrew Adonis) (London: Hamish Hamilton; New York, NY: Penguin Books USA, 1997) OCLC 38054735

Latest work: David Blunkett (Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; 14 Dec 2004) ISBN 0340825340

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 * No regular column



Articles:

 * Heritage snobs should let tall buildings flourish - Growing populations need homes in cities - 30th August 2016
 * Student cheats and their fixers deserve harshest penalties - Scandal of the ‘essay mills’ must be tackled urgently - 18th August 2016
 * A watchdog that won’t criticise teachers has no bite - The new head of Ofsted has not made a promising start - 1st July
 * Let’s have proper opera, not ego trips by the director - That’s quite enough Don Giovannis on the moon, thank you - 5th May 2016
 * The ‘Strictly Prom’ shows how craven the BBC has become - The world’s finest musical festival is now stooping to sequins - 15th April 2016
 * BP outlawed as a British Museum sponsor? Amazing - BP is beyond the pale as it produces not arms or cigarettes, but oil - 5th April 2016
 * The BBC should be praised for bringing cold facts to the VIP paedophile ring clamour - I'm a huge critic of Auntie Beeb, but the Metropolitan Police are wrong to attack investigative journalists for doing solid investigative work - 7th October 2015
 * Rather Jon Snow’s explicit bias than the BBC’s version - Viewers watch Channel 4 News because they want their bulletins delivered with the slant Mr Snow offers - 24th October 2014
 * Yet another Labour big beast departs the stage - The heavyweights of Straw, Brown and Blunkett helped Blair to win in 1997. Team Miliband is lightweight by comparison - 23rd June 2014
 * Don't believe the hype about a cabinet shift to the right - Take 'inside information' with a pinch of salt – there are unlikely to be fireworks, although Ken Clarke's time has run out - The Guardian, 21st August 2012
 * Boris Johnson: the Tories' prince over the water - A political heavyweight with mass appeal – Boris Johnson is the holy grail of Conservatism - The Guardian, 10th August 2012
 * Gaza flotilla II: This time, Israel took the diplomatic route - With Greece and Turkey desperate to repair relations, it was an easy matter to stop the flotilla reaching Gaza - The Guardian, 9th July 2011
 * empty gesture will not help peace'' - This snub to the JNF will cost him a chance to be an honest broker in the Middle East - 31st May 2011
 * Egon Ronay led, we’ve been slow to follow'' - Making a scene in a restaurant remains one of our greatest taboos - 14th June 2010
 * I’ll vote Tory for the first time in my life'' - Only one party is offering parents a real choice over their children’s schooling - 27th April 2010
 * Holding back a settlement - Palestinian demands to halt construction in East Jerusalem are a ruse to end negotiations, and delegitimise Israel - 19th March 2010
 * must be at the heart of social policy?'' - There is no group more shameless than the arts lobby - 15th February 2010
 * student pays about the same'' - Universities must run themselves. These funding rows are absurd - 28th December 2009
 * the extremists’ dirty work'' - Ignoring Muslim intolerance plays into the racists’ hands - 7th December 2009
 * never showed Alistair Darling my new contract'' - The Government should keep out of bankers’ pay arrangements - 16th November 2009
 * fry, but a big waste of money'' - The Children’s Commission: a squabble over a job no one has heard of, cares about or wants - 20th October 2009
 * trade will not beat poverty. Free trade will'' - The £12 million grant for coffee and chocolate is irrational - 12th October 2009
 * Poland's Kaminski is not an antisemite: he's a friend to Jews - The MEP invited to the Tory conference is a nationalist but not a neofascist - The Guardian, 9th October 2009
 * Scargill without brains or charm'' - A London Underground strike? Has Bob Crow not heard about the state of the economy? - 10th June 2009
 * Pope is deeply suspect to Jewish eyes'' - Benedict XVI’s visit to Israel is misconceived and likely to cause more harm than good - 11th May 2009
 * be fooled by the power of the blog'' - Guido Fawkes may have stirred up trouble, but the mainstream media made it a political event
 * Obama said, we are still at war'' - In an age of terrorism, we need Nato more than ever - 6th April 2009
 * for scrapping my car? Hello?'' - The Government's latest ‘green' plan is a 1970s-style investment in failing industry - 16th March 2009
 * we pay more for bad television?'' - If Channel 4 can't pay for itself, tough - viewers shouldn't foot the bill - 2nd February 2009
 * have a right to say who can join them'' - It is no business of the State to say who should belong to private organisations - 3rd November 2008
 * West End's theatre of cruelty'' - Here's an honest review: "Spend a small fortune. You'll hate every minute of it." - 20th October 2008
 * approach to eating is infantile'' - To too many people, food is just a refueling agent - 6th October 2008
 * courts are extending their reach'' - The longer we acquiesce in the spread of Islamic law in Britain, the more it will happen - 22nd September 2008
 * luck is ours. But bad luck is everyone else's'' - Why do other people expect us to bail them out when things go wrong - 15th September 2008
 * fasting for all'' - Tower Hamlets Council has told all of the borough's councillors to act like strict Muslims throughout Ramadan - 1st September 2008
 * day English classical music died'' - Composers have struggled to find a popular audience since the death of Vaughan Williams - 25th August 2008
 * firms are a boon, not our enemies'' - They are an easy target for some. But God help us if we have to live in a world devoid of their products - 18th August 2008
 * Charles should keep his GM ideas to himself'' - His views should lead him to believe that producing insulin for diabetics is wrong too - 14th August 2008


 * Stephen Pollard.net (archived columns)



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 * You work harder as civil servants take summer off - DON'T know about you but I’d love to take two weeks off for the Olympics - 16th May 2012



News & updates:

 * Stephen Pollard appointed editor of Jewish Chronicle - Press Gazette, 17th October 2008
 * 'Fantastic timing': a baptism of fire at the Jewish Chronicle - After leaving the Express in anger, Stephen Pollard is relishing his new role - The Independent, 11th January 2009
 * Stephen Pollard returns to Richard Desmond's fold - The Guardian, 21st September 2009

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 * Wikipedia biography