Stephen Pollard
Stephen Pollard is Editor of the JC, with a weekly column in the Express. He also writes regularly for The Times and Telegraph and was The Spectator\'s first Blogger. He wrote a bestselling biography of David Blanket and his new book, Deaths of the Great Composers, will be published in 2018.
Margaret Thatcher And The Middle East
Azriel Bermant’s Margaret Thatcher and the Middle East presents a fresh analysis of Britain’s role in the Middle East, based on recently declassified papers. Bermant questions claims that the Prime Minister sought to counter the Foreign Office’s Middle East policy, and maintains that Thatcher was in close agreement with the Whitehall bureaucracy on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Thatcher is revealed to be at odds with Reagan’s administration over key issues and a new angle is offered on t...