Thanks
You'll have noticed that this blog has hardly been updated for the past few weeks. That's because I am about to start as Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, and I have been winding other things down and preparing to take over.
I've had this blog for eighteen months, and it's been - for me, at least - wonderful. I could not have wished for a better host than the team at the Spectator, who never once interfered with anything other than positive suggestions. James Forsyth and Pete Hoskin are stars, both.
I first started blogging in May 2002, before I had heard of the word. I simply put all my newspaper pieces up on a site, and started to add little posts. Soon it became a habit.
And I have loved every minute of it since. (Well, almost.) And although this blog will be stopping, that won't be the end of my life as a blogger. I will be blogging from next week - all being well technologically - at the JC's site. The address will be www.thejc.com/stephenpollard
I hope that you'll find that although the blog's style will be rather different, it'll still be worth a visit.
Thanks for reading me here, and I hope the Spectator blogs go from strength to strength.
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Alex R
November 19th, 2008 9:20pmbest of luck
Miv Tucker
November 19th, 2008 9:44pmPlease, 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.
November 20th, 2008 12:09amThanks Steve! I've enjoyed your blog. Please make the JC less tabloidy!
Tom Burroughes
November 20th, 2008 7:48amCongratulations Stephen and good luck.
Tiberius
November 20th, 2008 5:01pmGod's speed, Stephen, and Come on You Spurs.
michael
November 21st, 2008 10:50amDoes this mean the JC is about to turn nasty?
Marin
November 21st, 2008 2:29pmBest wishes. I'm looking forward to reading the new blog.
Joe Camel
November 21st, 2008 2:32pmOn 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
November 21st, 2008 3:43pmGood night and good bye.
Susan Hill
November 22nd, 2008 3:00pmStephen, 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
November 24th, 2008 11:59amBetter be nice to estate agents now they are paying your wages. Lots more society photo's please.
michael
November 25th, 2008 11:23amHas he gone yet? Why is his post here if he is not...
Anybody there?
Eyal Bebak
November 26th, 2008 5:22pmGood luck and get rid of the Hamas appeasers there
The Dandiprat
November 27th, 2008 8:50pmBest 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
November 29th, 2008 11:34pmCongratulations, Shephen, and all the very best in the future. I've enjoyed your blog, and you will be missed (from here).
phil
December 1st, 2008 6:14pmG-D speed Stephen you will be missed here .best of luck ,and I will watch your new site
Branwen
December 1st, 2008 6:19pmHappy Blogging
THX1138
December 4th, 2008 8:24amThis getting very boring can someone please press delete and get someone new up.
Morus
December 30th, 2008 10:09pmCongratulations on the new job, Stephen!
The very best of luck to you.
jameshigham
January 1st, 2009 9:29pmGood luck, Stephen.
Louise
January 6th, 2009 8:51amStephen, 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.