Stephen Pollard

1 week ago | commentary.org | Stephen Pollard

It is a statement of the obvious that the most immediate threat to Israel comes from Islamist terror. And now, with self-described allies such as the UK, France, and Canada turning on Israel and joining more long-standing hostile nations such as Ireland, Norway, and Spain (largely to appease their Muslim...

1 week ago | spectator.com.au | Stephen Pollard

It’s understandable that the focus of coverage of Israel’s strikes on Iran, and the Iranian regime’s response, has been entirely on the potential regional consequences of Israel’s mission to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. But although this may seem more like a version of Neville Chamberlain’s infamous ‘quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing’ than an issue of immediate relevance to British national security, it is most definitely the latter.

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Stephen Pollard

It’s understandable that the focus of coverage of Israel’s strikes on Iran, and the Iranian regime’s response, has been entirely on the potential regional consequences of Israel’s mission to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability. But although this may seem more like a version of Neville Chamberlain’s infamous ‘quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing’ than an issue of immediate relevance to British national security, it is most definitely the latter.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Stephen Pollard

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Stephen Pollard

For all my adult life I have been an advocate of the “Jenkins’ Law”, a guide to public policy based on the writings of the commentator Sir Simon Jenkins. Jenkins’ Law is simple, useful and infallible: whatever he writes, the opposite is correct. In recent years, however, a variant of this law has emerged. Not so much a variant as a complementary alternative: Creasy’s Law. The principle is similar.