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Stephen Pollard
Registered: 22 April 2008
Location: Finchley
Stephen Pollard is editor of the JC.

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Abu Qatada's threat to national security (Express)

By Stephen Pollard, February 7, 2012

My Express column on the outrageous decision to release Abu Qatada from prison is here.

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Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte

By Stephen Pollard, February 2, 2012

There is only one reason to see this ninth revival of Jonathan Miller's production of Mozart's Così Fan Tutte. But it's compelling.

Sir Colin Davis' conducting is peerless. It's easy to take him for granted, so familiar a presence is he in London's musical life.

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'Yet another farce from the hated Human Rights Act' (Express)

By Stephen Pollard, January 13, 2012

I have a piece in today's Express on the law suit brought against the government by Cait Reilly. It's here.

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UK's Iran sanctions are a game-changer, says Israel

By Stephen Pollard, January 12, 2012

It's rare to find consensus on anything among Israeli politicians, soldiers and analysts.

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PA shares Israel's nuclear Iran fears

By Stephen Pollard, January 12, 2012

The Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, has attacked the behaviour of Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said that he shares Western - and Israeli - concerns with the Iranians' nuclear project.

Speaking in his Ramallah headquarters, Prime Minister Fayyad said that the Palestinians were "greatly harmed" by the Iranian leader's conduct.

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From Castro to Chavez: with great power comes truly great paranoia (Telegraph)

By Stephen Pollard, December 30, 2011

My Telegraph column today on Hugo Chavez's idea that the US has tried to assassinate him with cancer: http://goo.gl/7pLg1

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Opera: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg

By Stephen Pollard, December 22, 2011

For the ROH's Christmas treat, a six hour midsummer opera. Perverse you might think, until you hear Antonio Pappano's wondrous conducting of perhaps the most beautiful of all opera scores.

He brings an Italianate delicacy, never remotely ponderous, and is easily the best thing about this otherwise pleasant but hardly compelling revival.

The main problem is Wolfgang Koch's Sachs.

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