Showing posts with label Polly Toynbee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polly Toynbee. Show all posts
Monday, May 19, 2025

Zack Polanski and Alistair Darling: Two soft rides from the Guardian

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I'm late to the party on last week's Guardian interview with Zach Polanski , but I've still decided to come. Reading it today, I...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The risk Starmer runs by backing the two-child benefit cap

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Embed from Getty Images Labour's self-elected sensible tendency has been busy today praising Keir Starmer's decision not to scrap th...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Ignore Polly Toynbee by all means, but what lessons should the Lib Dems learn from the Coalition years?

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Embed from Getty Images Polly Toynbee has an article in today's Guardian whose headline tells you all you need to know: Why ...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

The shorter Polly Toynbee

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We're all doomed .
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Lord Bonkers' Diary: Richard III, Twycross Zoo and Foxton Locks

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The new issue of Liberator arrives, which means that it is time for another visit to Bonkers Hall. His lordship's remarks here appea...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Polly Toynbee vs Charles Masterman

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I wrote this back in September 2009 as In dejection near Polly Toynbee . Polly Toynbee had a column in the Guardian yesterday extolling L...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Polly Toynbee on measuring happiness

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Last month, while noting that Rutland has been found to be the happiest place in England by an Office of National Statistics report, I gave...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

On preferring Ludlow to Zoe Williams

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  And so they came to Ludlow, which some say is the fairest country town in England. In the twelfth century its wall were pierced with seven...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Educational Maintenance Allowance and trusting teenagers

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Yesterday I wrote about the way the left does not parents. I am not sure they trust teenagers that much either. Take this Polly Toynbee ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Life expectancy: A history lesson for Madeleine Bunting

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Commenting on Barbara Strauch's new book The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain in the Guardian the other day, Madeleine Bunting wrote:...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Public funding of the arts: Leicester shows big is not always beautiful

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I spent part of Friday at the Creative Garden event at Phoenix Square in Leicester. I met some old friends, made some useful new contacts a...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Polly Toynbee: Quick, everyone agree with me

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I know I plugged my article about Larry , but I didn't go this far. Yesterday evening Polly Toynbee sent this tweet , which rather sm...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

A refusal to mourn the death of Building Schools for the Future

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Michael Gove made an awful mess of the announcement that some the construction of some new schools under the Building Schools for the Future...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Polly Toynbee's Elementary Mistake of the Day

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Polly Toynbee writes in today's Guardian : Rebalancing £2bn in child tax credits will help redress the worst effects of the VAT rise f...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Six of the Best 42

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In vintage form, Quaequam Blog! tells Polly Toynbee what she can do with her clothes peg. Why did Nick Clegg do less well in the YouGuv pol...
Saturday, April 03, 2010

House Points: In the green room at Ask the Chancellors

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My House Points column from the current Liberal Democrat News. I liveblogged the debate while I was there. Tough at the top They have fierc...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Liveblogging Ask the Chancellors

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Hello from the green room at Channel 4 studios on London's prestigious South Bank. Channel 4 kindly asked if I would like to come and ...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

The Liberal England Year: Part 2

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Part 1 was posted yesterday. We continue with... July I helpfully explained why parents cheat over school admissions and marked the death ...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

In dejection near Polly Toynbee

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Polly Toynbee had a column in the Guardian yesterday extolling Labour's bright new generation and the party's achievements in Lambe...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Professional and family models of public childcare

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Channel 4's season on children in the care system is an honourable attempt to shed light on a forgotten group, even if its centrepiece ...