Stephen Pollard

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Stephen Pollard is best known as a British author and journalist, although he is President of a free-market/neoliberal Brussels-based think tank, the Centre for a New Europe. He writes columns for several publications including The Times and the Daily Mail and maintains a lively blog. He is an alumnus of John Lyon School.

Pollard has been an enthusiastic advocate of market-based based public service reforms such as university top-up tuition fees.

He is the official biographer for David Blunkett and is an occasional guest on the BBC's flagship Question Time discussion show.

Formerly a journalist and leader-writer on the Daily Express, he left that paper in 2001 soon after it was taken over by Richard Desmond, a publisher of pornographic magazines, who began implementing radical cutbacks. His last leader for the paper is still fondly remembered. Ostensibly addressed to the problems of the British farming industry, it was not until several million copies had gone to print that examination revealed taking the first letter of each sentence spelt out the uncompromising message "Fuck you Desmond".^[1]

He was a founding signatory in 2005 of the Henry Jackson Society principles. The Society is widely dubbed 'neoconservative', but claims to advocate a proactive approach to the spread of liberal democracy across the world, often via military intervention.