Stephen Pollard
Columnist at The Critic Magazine (UK)
I scribble. Turf Account columnist @TheCriticMag. Author (if I get off this site and do the work) The Wandering Jew (2026) #coys
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1 day ago |
spectator.co.uk | Stephen Pollard
The woman two tables from me at a branch of Pret in the City was talking about her chemotherapy. Her male companion asked her how her treatment was going, and she replied that it was gruelling. She was on a short break and was dreading the next round. I have leukaemia, and know the pattern of these conversations. What usually follows is sympathy, or empathy if someone has been through it themselves or knows someone who has. But there was no sympathy or empathy offered.
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2 days ago |
thejc.com | Stephen Pollard
In a speech to the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RUSI) last week, Lord Hermer said that both Nigel Farage’s Reform and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories had adopted Nazi ideology by asserting that national law supersedes international agreements, in reference to their discussing the idea of withdrawing Britain from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): “The claim that international law is fine as far as it goes, but can be put aside when conditions change, is a claim that was made in...
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4 days ago |
spectator.com.au | Stephen Pollard
My son has a penchant for fantasy movies, especially Marvel. It’s an expensive taste. The cinema isn’t cheap once you add in food and parking. So in a way I am grateful to Sir Keir Starmer. Because there’s now no need for my son to visit the cinema again. If he wants a fantasy, all he needs to do is listen to the Prime Minister speak about defence.
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4 days ago |
spectator.co.uk | Stephen Pollard
My son has a penchant for fantasy movies, especially Marvel. It’s an expensive taste. The cinema isn’t cheap once you add in food and parking. So in a way I am grateful to Sir Keir Starmer. Because there’s now no need for my son to visit the cinema again. If he wants a fantasy, all he needs to do is listen to the Prime Minister speak about defence. To be fair to the PM, he isn’t the only one.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Stephen Pollard
To understand what’s really going on with the latest British Medical Association strike threat – it is currently balloting 50,000 doctors over a putative six-month strike in support of a 29 per cent pay claim for ‘resident’ (formerly called junior) doctors – it’s instructive to look at what happened to Liverpool City Council in the 1980s. The local Labour party had effectively been taken over by Militant entryists, who then exerted de facto control of the council.
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