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John Kampfner on the Tories' retreat into their political comfort zone

guardian.co.uk     12-Aug-2008   4 related          

Why Huggy Cameron has performed a vanishing act The Tories have slipped back into their political comfort zone, which is a shame for us and a lost opportunity for them These were words to gladden the heart. While the Tories are...                    

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Opinion: Oxford is doing its best to widen participation, says Tom Kemp

guardian.co.uk     12-Aug-2008          

The cultural fissure faced by pupils of Capital City academy of Brent on their visit to Oxford's St John's College is vividly and convincingly evoked by Polly Toynbee and David Walker (Education Guardian, August 5). I am only...                    

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Eat the rich, not the well-off

thisismoney.co.uk     10-Aug-2008          

Bookmakers, for example. This last group has taken a pasting in recent days, spurred on by a new book from The Guardian's Polly Toynbee as well as a Tory endorsement for egalitarian-style bonus schemes from the likes of John...                    

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What Toynbee doesn't get

spectator.co.uk     09-Aug-2008   3 related          

For those who haven't leafed through a copy, or read the extracts in the Guardian this week, Polly Toynbee and David Walker's new book is effectively an extended diatribe against the Unjust Rewards of those who, say, work in...                    

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Can weak Brown resist this empty challenge?

moneyweek.com     08-Aug-2008   2 related          

“Americans do it clean, Britons do it dirty,” says Simon Jenkins in The Guardian. In Britain, for the second time in just over a year, we have to “contemplate a small political club choosing a new ruler without so much as a...                    

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Editing other blogs

curly15.wordpress.com     08-Aug-2008          

Who would you edit if you could? Via Devil’s Kitchen The Devil picked up the idea from Comment is Free and asks who would you edit if you had the chance (and yes I know and understand that a few around South Shields would go...                    

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The money goes on Gordon going

politicalbetting.com     08-Aug-2008          

What are the chances of him still being there on election day? Probably the best long-term market where we can plot trends on betting attitudes to Gordon’s survival is the one from Betfair on the line-up of party leaders at the...                    

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To club or not to club, Sir Simon, Anthony Barnett

opendemocracy.net     07-Aug-2008          

Anthony Barnett (London,OK): There was a very odd column by Simon Jenkins in Wednesday's Guardian. He says that we don't have democracy, we still have rule by clubland. Especially when it comes to choosing leaders. He is very...                    

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View from the top updated....................with a little help from Polly Toynbee!

libdemblogs.co.uk     07-Aug-2008          

Having spent most of my working life in drafty decrepit youth centres and on badly lit street corners (as a detached youth worker I hasten to add!)............the grandeur of Canary Wharf never ceases to amaze me. Cheek by jowl...                    

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Toynbee: the great comic figure of the age

thefirstpost.co.uk     07-Aug-2008          

Journalist Polly Toynbee is in no position to criticise rich hypocrites, says Lewis Jones None of us," boomed Polly Toynbee the other day, in her now famous attack on the super-rich, "like to feel guilty about our comfortable...                    

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