Stephen Pollard"Never knowingly understated"An enigmatic insult to Elgar (The Times)- May 31, 2007 The following Notebook of mine is in today's Times: Saturday is the 150th anniversary of Sir Edward Elgars birth. Thats Elgar as in the greatest British composer of the past 250 years. The composer of the finest cello concerto in...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003252.html Food as art, or pie in the sky (The Times)- May 17, 2007 The following piece of mine is in today's Times: I have never eaten a Velzquez. Or a Picasso, come to that. But I have eaten an Adri. And it was pretty tasty. Never heard of the Spanish artist Ferran Adri...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003251.html What are the Tories thinking of ditching grammar schools (Daily Mail)- May 17, 2007 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....http://www.stephenpollard.net/003250.html A waste of time and money (Spectator)- May 10, 2007 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 Blairs first Health Secretary. For...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003249.html Surprise! People will pay for good schools (The Times)- May 5, 2007 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...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003248.html Onwards and upwards- May 2, 2007 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...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003247.html Ironic idiocy- May 2, 2007 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...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003246.html Worth a vote after all- May 2, 2007 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,...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003245.html Vanquish the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them all, down to the very last one.- May 1, 2007 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...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003244.html Bye bye Chelsea- May 1, 2007 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...http://www.stephenpollard.net/003243.html |