Polly Toynbee

                   

The panel: Would cutting taxes help ease the coming recession?

guardian.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 229 related
        

Simon Jenkins: Everything we know from past experience is that if you want to inject money fast into economy, you cut prices now, which means reducing VAT, not waiting for the effect of personal income tax to work through into...

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Comment is Free: Polly Toynbee says that ‘Judge Dacre’, the nation’s ‘bully-in-chief’ gives...

journalism.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 9 related
        

November 11th, 2008 Posted by Judith Townend in Advanced Online Research for Journalists - 1 day course An intensive one-day course covering quick tips for slicker searching and a range of other investigative techniques and...

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Polly Toynbee: Judge Dacre dispenses little justice from his bully pulpit

guardian.co.uk
11-Nov-2008 90 related
        

"Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre last night launched a passionate defence of press freedom." So reported the Daily Mail yesterday. He made a speech attacking what he claimed was a privacy law being introduced by the back door,...

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Polly Toynbee: Barack could teach Brown to say boo to the goose

guardian.co.uk
08-Nov-2008 55 related
        

What a result. For Gordon Brown to win Glenrothes with a higher percentage of the vote breaks all rules and expectations. Governments lose byelections, don't they? Despite Scottish peculiarities, make no mistake - this was a...

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Politics Weekly podcast: Glenrothes byelection and President Obama

guardian.co.uk
07-Nov-2008 472 related
        

Politics Weekly: The Brown bounce at Glenrothes Nick Watt, Polly Toynbee and Will Woodward discuss Labour's victory at the Glenrothes byelection. Plus, what now for the 'special relationship' following the election of Barack...

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From the sublime to the ridiculous.

septicisle.info
06-Nov-2008 48 related
        

The problem with the election of Obama for our own parliamentary equivalents is that it doesn't exactly show them in the most flattering light. Hazel Blears deciding to talk about political disengagement is a little like...

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Recession & social mobility

stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
05-Nov-2008
        

What impact does recession have upon social mobility? Polly Toynbee baldly asserts that the effect is adverse:What happens to social mobility now depends on the depth of the recession…If there are no jobs for young people...

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Guy Aitchison: Can New Labour renew itself?

guardian.co.uk
04-Nov-2008 2 related
        

How does a party so closely wedded to a discredited economic orthodoxy find the political will to renew itself after years of incumbency? No, that's not a hypothetical for Republicans to ponder on the day of the US elections,...

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Polly Toynbee: Signs of progress at last, but profound inequality remains

guardian.co.uk
04-Nov-2008 26 related
        

What happens to social mobility now depends on the depth of the recession, how many are unemployed, and for how long. If there are no jobs for young people leaving school, university or apprenticeships, there could be another...

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Journalist Andrew Gilligan accused of internet "sockpuppeting"

guardian.co.uk
03-Nov-2008
        

Via Wikipedia I've discovered a definition of internet sockpuppeting from the New York Times.The act of creating a fake online identity to praise, defend or create the illusion of support for one's self, allies or...

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