Polly Toynbee
@pollytoynbee
Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist, formerly BBC social affairs editor. Her latest book An Uneasy inheritance, my family and other radicals is out in June
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/pollytoynbee 13-12-2010 15:27:25
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'Labour refuses to use the #SureStart label for fear it suggests uncounted spending, but David Bell, a former chief inspector at Ofsted, is drawing up a report for them on the future of early years: it may look something like this' Polly Toynbee theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Polly Toynbee You would have expected the tory press be full of the massive success of the 15 hour plan, but silence, I wonder why?
Polly Toynbee hitting the nail bang on the head here 🔨://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/expansion-free-childcare-tory-labour-nursery-primary-school?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Here's Polly Toynbee on the trouble with current #childcare policy: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
My piece in The Guardian about St George's Day, efforts by Keir Starmer to plant Labour's flag on patriotism, and my new book written with Marc Stears being published this week: 'England, Seven Myths That Changed a Country -and How to Set Them Straight.' theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
It's with gratitude for a life well lived as well as with great sadness that Humanists UK has learned of the death of Baroness Doreen Massey of Darwen, former Vice-Chair & Secretary of All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group, Humanists UK member for 40 yrs, & a valued patron.
humanists.uk/2024/04/22/bar…
Crystal clear critique by Polly Toynbee of the punitive English & maths 'resit' policy which young people are subject too - it does not work & needs to be changed.
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Mark Littlewood, ex-head of the unaccountable, secretly funded Institute of Economic Affairs, out & abt trying to defend the disastrous Premiership of Liz Truss. The ideas of Trussonomics came directly from Littlewood, the IEA & Tufton Street r/w think-tank mafia. #PoliticsLive
The great Will Hutton will be kicking off our summer programme on Wed 1 May. Details: bit.ly/3UiouqG Do come along if you can! Polly Toynbee steve richards Steve Bassam University of Sussex City Books Paul Johnson Rafael Behr Peter Kyle MP Tim Loughton MP 🇺🇦 Simon Fanshawe
Later today I’ll be speaking at the #WeMakeCamden summit alongside Georgia Gould, mathu_logan, Batuala Alexander, and Polly Toynbee to launch Camden Council’s Community Wealth Fund report (co-written with us at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose).
Read the report ⬇️
ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…
Um, quite a lot of policies here, for the daily Tory press release chant ‘Labour’s got no plan’. Labour Party election manifesto locals 2024: Key policies at a glance – via LabourList labourlist.org/2024/04/what-l…
Polly Toynbee Joe Miller The World at One For me, whether they benefit from public subsidies or not is immaterial. We should learn the lessons of history in Northern Ireland (as well as of segregation in the US) and ban schools that divide the community on grounds of race, religion or gender.
'The social destruction of austerity has created a health deficit that may prove more onerous to shift than the national debt'
Polly Toynbee on the parlous state of the NHS & the problem this poses for Labour & the Tories
#NHS #LVIPolitics #r4today
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Joe Miller The World at One School’s not the place for worship, but is place to learn about all religions.Time to abolish all faith schools too: why are 30% of state schools religious, mostly Christian, when we’re a majority non-religious country? Court ruling today should bring total reform.
Central that everyone makes clear that Liz Truss is entirely responsible for her own demise - no claiming Bank of England OBR HM Treasury bond foreign exchange or stock markets hedge funds, traders were responsible. She was warned so it is entirely down to her utter IEA