Stephen Pollard

Stephen Pollard (born ca. 1965) is a British author and journalist, currently editor of The Jewish Chronicle. 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. He has written columns for several publications, including The Times and the Daily Mail, and also maintains a blog.

Pollard is an alumnus of John Lyon School and Mansfield College, Oxford.

He is an advocate of market-based public service reforms. He is also a frequent commentator on Israel, and a critic of Jihadist movements., Stephen Pollard, The Spectator,

Career

Formerly a journalist and leader-writer on the Daily Express, Stephen Pollard left that paper in 2001 soon after it was taken over by Richard Desmond, a publisher of pornographic magazines, who began implementing radical cutbacks. Pollard's last leader for the paper, on the problems of the British farming industry, turned out to contain the words "Fuck you, Desmond" spelt out with the first letter of each sentence. A standing job offer at The Times was withdrawn as they considered the acrostic in the article to be "unacceptable" and "insulting".

After early articles for the Fabian Review in 1993 (e.g. "More Southern Discomfort", discussing ways by which the Labour Party could reform itself sufficiently to regain power), Stephen...
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