Thanks

Alex R

best of luck

Miv Tucker

Please, Steve - make your first priority at the JC the getting rid of those acres of witless "society" photos and their replacement by some informed, serious comment. Thanks.

But good luck however you approach the job!

Adam B.

Thanks Steve! I've enjoyed your blog. Please make the JC less tabloidy!

Tom Burroughes

Congratulations Stephen and good luck.

Tiberius

God's speed, Stephen, and Come on You Spurs.

michael

Does this mean the JC is about to turn nasty?

Marin

Best wishes. I'm looking forward to reading the new blog.

Joe Camel

On the contrary, Stephen, thank *you*!

I look forward to pestering you at the new address you have so nonchalantly made available to the general public. You have cautiously put the verb in the future tense ("the address will be . . . ") and I wonder: When? Not yet, my computer tells me.

patrcia

Good night and good bye.

Susan Hill

Stephen, please will you contact me ? I`ve no way of getting a message to you otherwise. I hope the mods. get this with my e-mail address on to you. ThanksS

THX1138

Better be nice to estate agents now they are paying your wages. Lots more society photo's please.

michael

Has he gone yet? Why is his post here if he is not...

Anybody there?

Eyal Bebak

Good luck and get rid of the Hamas appeasers there

The Dandiprat

Best of luck Stephen in the new job.

I take it there are moves to find a replacement.
If so, would it be possible to have someone different?
By that I mean someone not Home Counties, perhaps someone outside the journo' 'hub'.

Why not someone who works in another field and who can float a couple of daily ideas from a wider pool?

A working copper, a teacher, a brickie godammit.

It's all truffles and West End and 'I'm in Beijing for a few days'. Fairy snuff, but there are so many other tunes that I would have thought had a place in blogsville.

Not just here but blogs in general have settled into a pretty samey club. Sedentary and cossetted and therefore, estranged from us strugglers.

Let's have some front line stuff for a change?

Huw Thornton

Congratulations, Shephen, and all the very best in the future. I've enjoyed your blog, and you will be missed (from here).

phil

G-D speed Stephen you will be missed here .best of luck ,and I will watch your new site

Branwen

Happy Blogging

THX1138

This getting very boring can someone please press delete and get someone new up.

Morus

Congratulations on the new job, Stephen!

The very best of luck to you.

jameshigham

Good luck, Stephen.

Louise

Stephen, your article "Bowen, BBC and bias: a case of selective myopia" in the current JC was masterly.
I'm delighted that you are taking the helm.
Mazel Tov on your appointment, and all good wishes.

RUTH

Why is this muppet's blog still up?

Wakey Wakey Moderator Man... Let Mr Pollard Rest in Peace.

logdon

Steven, congratulations on the new job and also for your excellent showing on last night's Any Questions. Boy, was I impressed! You stuck it to them with facts that the audience certainly took in and responded to. What a refreshment? If you bring half as much wisdom to the JC you'll be heading in the right direction. I usually post over on Melanie's brilliant blog and here's my take...

logdon
January 16th, 2009 3:37pm
Am I alone in observing this but did last night's Any Questions from Leeds display the emergence of a sea change in attitude from the usual baying anti Israel hate fests? The audience, rather than the same old, same old seemed to grasp, at last, what is going on. Of course the odious Jenny Tonge* tried her level best to command the moral high ground with her well honed but ultimately repetetively hollow diatribes, as she always does, but for me the star of the show was, without any doubt Jewish Chronicle editor, Stephen Pollard. No slick, oily and ultimately dissembling politico, he seemed to capture the audiences attention with his slightly nerdy wit and informed honesty. The politicians of all hues ultimately always dissappoint, churning out the cliches of ceasefire without having the slightest clue as to what they were talking about but, you know, I detected from the great and lively audience that they've been rumbled. Sitting on a very high fence looking this way and that without any valid examination of the huge disparity of concern for human rights between one side or the other, they betray the very job description which persuaded citizens to vote for them in the first place. TS Eliot's Hollow Men to a man (and woman in Tonge's case) they chunter on as if this was almost abstract. Either that or the stupid David and Goliath analogy. It isn't, as the violence and destruction perpetrated by Muslims in the name of Palestine, but really Islam, across Europe and the US is demonstrating. What was it about giving them enough rope? But returning to my original optimism, the tender green shoots of progress, to paraphrase the hapless Ms Vadera? In this context it could be happening. * The Tonge agenda of balance and deliberation courtesy of Google....Lib Dem MP: Why I would consider being a suicide bomber | Politics ...
23 Jan 2004 ... Jenny Tonge was summoned to explain her comments to the Liberal Democrat chief whip after telling a Westminster rally that the daily ...
www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/jan/23/israel.liberaldemocrats - 78k - Cached - Similar pages

Eda Spinka

Please read this week's Hamodia's excellent article (in B9) The Great Disengagement Debate, which contains an interview with Arik Sharon's son, Gilad. It puts the blame for the situation subsequent to the disengagement squarely on Olmert's shoulders.

michael

You ve got to be joking!

His question time appearance was absolutely awful!