Stephen Pollard

By Stephen Pollard

Opinion

You work harder as civil servants take summer off (Express)

May 16, 2012 10:28
1 min read

My Express column on the civil service's 7 week 'work from home' wheeze this summer is here.

Editor’s picks

01

The opera singer who won’t be silenced on Israel

Chai note: Ilona Domnich (Photo: Omer Barr)
02

Exclusive: Top eye surgeon reposted tweets about ‘cult Zions’ controlling the BBC

Michel Michaelides is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hospital. (Photo: London Medical)
03

From Berlin to Finchleystrasse: the Jews who redefined the Finchley Road

Bohemian haunt: Cosmo, a meeting place for intellectuals and eccentrics from 1933 to 1998 (Photo: Marion Manheimer)
04

Marseille 1940 by Uwe Wittstock: one hack’s mission to save Jewish intelligentsia from the Nazis

Rescued: (clockwise from top) Max Ernst, Andre Breton, Hannah Arendt, a Jacques Lipchitz sculpture, Jacques Lipchitz, Walter Benjamin, Lion Feuchtwanger, Marc Chagall and journalist Varian Gray
05

The settler activists who attack the soldiers sent to protect them

Members of a diplomatic delegation from the European Union inspect the damage at Kafr Malik village in the West Bank, following an attack by Israeli settlers (Image: Getty)

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