- Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard is a British
author andjournalist , currently President of afree-market Brussels -basedthink tank , theCentre for the New Europe . He writes columns for several publications including "The Times " and the "Daily Mail " and maintains a livelySpectator blog . He is analumnus ofJohn Lyon School andMansfield College, Oxford .Pollard is an advocate of market-based based public service reforms. He is also a frequent commentator on
Israel , and a critic ofJihad ist movement amongMuslims . [ [http://www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard/2082756/more-wikipedia.thtml More Wikipedia] , Pollard] He is a biographer ofDavid Blunkett .Formerly a journalist and leader-writer on the "
Daily Express ", he left that paper in2001 soon after it was taken over byRichard Desmond , a publisher of pornographic magazines, who began implementing radical cutbacks. His 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. Sadly modern morals hadn't collpased quite as far as he belived and the job he had lined up at "The Times " was withdrawn as they considered this to be unacceptable and insulting. [cite_news
url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,421909,00.html
publisher=The Observer
title=Who gives a Friar Tuck?
date=January 14, 2001 ]He was one of the signatory founders
2005 of theHenry Jackson Society which advocates a proactive approach to the spread ofliberal democracy across the world. The fact of his having written for the "Fabian Review" in 1993 ("More Southern Discomfort"), discussing ways by which the Labour Party could reform itself enough to gain power, suggests that his career has seen a fair degree of political movement from Left to Right.References
External links
* [http://www.stephenpollard.net/index.html www.stephenpollard.net]
* [http://www.spectator.co.uk/stephenpollard/ Stephen Pollard's Blog on the Spectator]
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