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Stephen Pollard (born 18 December 1964) is a British author and journalist. From 2008 until December 2021, he was the editor of ''
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'' and remains a senior advisor and writer on the paper.


Early life

Pollard had what he calls a "normal, nominally orthodox north-west London Jewish upbringing". His childhood dream was to become a barrister. He attended
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at the same time as
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.


Career

He was a researcher for
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MP
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.


Think tanks

In 1993, Pollard worked for the
Fabian Society The Fabian Society is a British socialist organisation whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow. The Fa ...
. In 1996, he joined the
Social Market Foundation The Social Market Foundation (SMF) is an independent British political public policy think-tank based in Westminster, London. It is one of the 'Top 12 Think Tanks in Britain' and was named 'UK Think Tank of the Year' by Prospect in 2012. Its pur ...
. In 2005, Pollard was a Senior Fellow at
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. In 2007, he was president for the
Centre for the New Europe The Centre for the New Europe (CNE) was a free-market think tank founded in 1993 and based in Brussels. It focused on EU issues such as economic growth, managing environmental change, health and welfare policy, competition policy, and innovation. ...
. In 2007, it was announced that he would be the first chair of the
European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism The European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (EISCA) was established in 2007 as a think-tank to examine the growth and development of antisemitism in the world today and to explore new strategies for countering it in all its for ...
.


Journalism

Stephen Pollard started at the ''
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''. He then worked at the ''
Daily Express The ''Daily Express'' is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published as a broadsheet i ...
'', leaving in 2001. In his final article for the paper, he used the first letter of every paragraph to spell out the phrase "Fuck you Desmond". He has been a political columnist with ''
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'' and the ''
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'' as well as writing for ''
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'' and ''
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''. In November 2008, he became editor of ''
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''. During his editorship, as of October 2020, the
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and its successor IPSO have made fourteen rulings against the paper. The publication has also been forced to pay damages for libel on several occasions throughout his tenure. It was announced in April 2020 that the paper was going into voluntary liquidation, despite a planned merger with ''Jewish News'', announced in February 2020. Pollard resigned to join a consortium bidding for the publication's assets. The bid was successful and retained Pollard as editor. In September 2010, ''
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'' apologised and paid damages and costs to the organisers of the
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conference, in a defamation case involving a blog post written by Pollard and published in July 2008. The apology regretted the suggestion that "Islam Expo Limited is a fascist party dedicated to genocide which organised a conference with a racist and genocidal programme" and accepted that "Islam Expo's purpose is to provide a neutral and broad-based platform for debate on issues relating to Muslims and Islam." As of 2019, he writes frequently for the ''Daily Express'', and also writes for the ''Daily Mail'', '' The Sun'' and ''
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''.


Views

Pollard is an advocate of market-based public service reforms. He believes that "the state has no business running schools or hospitals" and "I object to the fact I have to pay for (the
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)". He believes in a
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. He was a signatory founder of the
Henry Jackson Society The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) is a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, based in the United Kingdom. While describing itself as non-partisan, its outlook has been described variously as neoliberal and as neoconser ...
, a
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British foreign policy
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."... he West'sfailures in the former Yugoslavia (especially Bosnia) were more than just moral. Through their impact on the credibility of our international institutions, such as NATO and the EU, they had a profound effect on the national interests of western powers. These fiascos showed that we had to engage, robustly and sometimes preventatively. The early interventions in Kosovo and Sierra Leone, although imperfect, provide an appropriate model for future action.
The Henry Jackson Society's Statement of Principles
 He says that he began to think about Judaism seriously and to feel loyalty to Israel in his mid-thirties.


Publications

* ''David Blunkett'', Hodder & Stoughton, 2004 * ''Ten Days That Changed The Nation: The Making Of Modern Britain'', Simon & Schuster, 2009 * ''Falling Off A Clef: The Lives and Bizarre Deaths of Great Composers'', The Robson Press, 2014


References

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