Stephen Pollard


Stephen Pollard is a British author and journalist. Since 2008 he has been the editor of The Jewish Chronicle.

Early life

Pollard had what he calls a "normal, nominally orthodox north-west London Jewish upbringing". His childhood dream was to become a barrister.

Career

He was a researcher for Labour MP Peter Shore.

Think tanks

In 1993, Pollard worked for the Fabian Society. In 1996, he joined the Social Market Foundation.
In 2005, Pollard was a Senior Fellow at Civitas. In 2007, he was president for the Centre for the New Europe.
In 2007, it was announced that he would be the first chair of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.

Journalism

Stephen Pollard started at the Evening Standard. He then worked at the Daily Express, 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 The Times and the Daily Mail as well as writing for The Independent and Sunday Telegraph.
In November 2008, he became editor of The Jewish Chronicle. During his editorship, IPSO made eight findings against the paper. 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, The Spectator apologised and paid damages and costs to the organisers of the Islam Expo 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 The Daily Telegraph.

Books

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 ". He believes in a flat tax.
He was a signatory founder of the Henry Jackson Society, a neoconservative British foreign policy think tank.
He says that he began to think about Judaism seriously and to feel loyalty to Israel in his mid-thirties.