Stephen Pollard

Columnist at The Critic Magazine (UK)

Editor-at-large @JewishChron, Turf Account columnist @TheCriticMag, author (if I get off this site and do the work) The Wandering Jew (2026) #coys

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Articles

Keir Starmer is wrong to think immigration is just a numbers game

3 days ago | spectator.co.uk | Stephen Pollard

Should the government set a cap on immigration? Do we need to pull out of the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) to take control of our borders? Will Keir Starmer’s plan to cut numbers – which involves cutting the recruitment of overseas care workers – work? All vital questions, not least because the result of the next election may depend on the answers.
Trump is stumbling into a catastrophic diplomatic error

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Stephen Pollard

As Donald Trump prepares to visit Riyadh, the one seemingly consistent and firm thread to his foreign policy in both his first and second terms – his backing of Israel – is fast becoming as unpredictable and unreliable as he is in almost every other sphere.
Trump is stumbling into a catastrophic diplomatic error

5 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Stephen Pollard
Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House: ‘Wagner played to perfection’ - The Jewish Chronicle

1 week ago | thejc.com | Stephen Pollard

There is a strong case that Wagner’s Die Walküre is the greatest opera ever written. It has everything, from the broad sweep of the Ring cycle as a whole (it’s the second of the four) to the intimate passion, family drama (that’s putting it mildly!) and soaring music that expresses both the epochal themes of the Ring cycle and the personal elation – and anguish – of the characters. But for every production that works, there are half a dozen that don’t.
The new campus normal: harass the Jews, protect the mob - The Jewish Chronicle

1 week ago | thejc.com | Stephen Pollard

And yet it is also a devastating, shocking compilation of examples of the scale of Jew hate on campus. It shames our nation – and it shames the university authorities which permit it. Page after page of the report details clear and unambiguous support for Hamas and Hezbollah, two proscribed organisations – as if the university authorities think there some sort of exemption from the law if you break it on campus.
Sectarian politics in the UK could go mainstream - The Jewish Chronicle

1 week ago | thejc.com | Stephen Pollard

Their victories follow those of the four “Gaza independents” in July in Leicester South, Blackburn, Birmingham Perry Barr and Dewsbury and Batley, after similar candidates had won two months earlier in local elections in Blackburn, Bradford and Oldham.
Political Islam is now a feature of British elections: Gaza is just the symptom, not the cause

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Stephen Pollard

Reform’s strength now poses perhaps a greater threat to Labour even than to the Conservatives. Contained within Thursday’s results, however, is another threat to the party – but one which, unlike the Reform surge, builds on a development evident since last year’s general election. That threat is the rise of independent Muslim candidates on platforms designed to appeal to their fellow Muslims.
Gaza is just the symptom, not the cause

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Stephen Pollard
Winning big might become Reform’s worst nightmare

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Stephen Pollard

The local election votes won’t be counted until Friday, but it’s pretty obvious from the polls that it’s all about Reform. As well as the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, there are 1,641 seats across 14 county councils up for grabs. Along with eight unitary authorities, one metropolitan district, five regional mayoralties and one city mayoralty. Most parties go out of their way to manage expectations down, so that whatever the actual result, they can say they’ve done better than anyone expected.
Winning big might become Reform's worst nightmare

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Stephen Pollard