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Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist. Her books include Dismembered: How the attack on the state harms us all, co-authored with David Walker. 

April 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    It’s Sunak’s doom loop: the more desperate and cruel the Tories become, the more voters reject them

    Polly Toynbee
    The hatred these Conservatives feel for their country isn’t just because of the polls: they also despise the sea change in British politics, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
  • Polly Toynbee

    The Tories’ poisonous anti-culture politics has crushed the arts. Bring on election night

    Polly Toynbee
    Museums have closed and festivals lost funding – but Labour will restore Britain’s creative superpower status, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

    • The expansion of free childcare has been a Tory-fied mess of a bright Labour idea

      Polly Toynbee

    • Let’s end the annual torture of GCSE resits – and give students qualifications they’ll actually use

      Polly Toynbee

    • Jammed 999 lines and not enough ambulances to go round: come see the sharp end of this NHS crisis

      Polly Toynbee

February 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    The manifesto Britain needs
    The Tories have sucked the joy from the education system. Here are three ways Labour can bring it back

    Polly Toynbee
  • Polly Toynbee

    Most Britons say poor people deserve support. So what do Sunak’s Tories do? Cut, cut, cut

    Polly Toynbee
  • Polly Toynbee

    The Commons needed to focus on the horror in Gaza. Instead this was a grubby game of political chess

    Polly Toynbee
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    The Tory press can publish all the tax avoidance guides they like – the rich won’t flee a Labour government

    Polly Toynbee

  • The voters of Wellingborough and Kingswood said one thing with one voice: the Tory era is over

    Polly Toynbee

  • Today in Focus
    Why is it becoming so hard to retire in the UK?

  • We’ve heard lots about what Labour won’t do, but here’s something they should: close the Tories’ tax loopholes

    Polly Toynbee

  • Starmer’s £28bn green plan was bungled but Labour still has bold hopes for the country – and the planet

    Polly Toynbee

  • First photo ID, now votes for expats: the Tories are showing us exactly what election rigging looks like

    Polly Toynbee

  • It’s time for Labour to kick back against the Tory attacks. This is where it should start

    Polly Toynbee

January 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Wales has been brave enough to completely rethink the hated council tax. Take note, England

    Polly Toynbee
    The Senedd’s plan to shift the burden of this levy away from those on lower incomes shows how real levelling up can work, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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    Banning prayer rituals in school? Just get religion out of education completely

    Polly Toynbee
    Many who praise a headteacher for preventing Muslim prayers are oddly sanguine about the number of faith schools in Britain, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

    • Sunak is praying for the Lords to block the Rwanda bill – so he can blame the left

      Polly Toynbee

    • Ben Shankland is a GP, but the rightwing press would tell you he’s an enemy of the people. Don’t listen

      Polly Toynbee

    • Britain is a poorer, sicker place. No wonder disability claims have trebled in a decade

      Polly Toynbee
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