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Polly Toynbee

The money goes on Gordon going

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...

Toynbee: the great comic figure of the age

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...

‘I’m not an ambassador for New Labour, I’m an MP’

When I came to play back the recording of my recent interview with Bob Marshall-Andrews, the serially rebellious Labour MP for Medway, for a second or two my blood ran cold. As I remembered it, while I’d been drawing him we’d...

I haven't had such fun since Tracey got me Googles in a twist... QUENTIN LETTS takes a sneak peek...

Hey oop, campers, JP here. Scroll down for more John Prescott: A slip of titanic proportions Nonetheless she's a grand lass, is Pauline, there's no one like her in the wives' deportment. The point of this fishnet site - oops!...

Letters: Labour, leaders and enduring elites

For someone who can write with pinpoint accuracy about the government's failure to reduce inequality, Polly Toynbee's comments on David Miliband's article (This week, Miliband made winning look possible again, August 2) were a...

Polly Toynbee: Greed has brought us here, fairness must lead us out

Anger over the wealth gap is huge. A recent Harris poll found public opinion "strikingly consistent" across Europe, Asia and the US, with large majorities protesting that the gap between rich and poor has grown too wide -...

Polly Toynbee: The government must be challenged on corporate excess

Labour's wilful silence over pay will need to be challenged by any serious contenders to succeed Gordon Brown. They will have to speak because the fruits of corporate excess, especially in banking and finance, are scattered all...

Polly Toynbee and David Walker: an extract from their new book on the widening gap between rich...

The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever. Here were professionals who deal daily with money, yet know next to nothing about other people's incomes. An encounter with the facts didn't seem to impinge in the ensuing...

A long time in politics...

The volatility of the opinion polls (not to mention that of those who write about them) is demonstrated today at Political Betting. Less than 2 weeks after Mike Smithson said he thought the Lib Dems were closing in on Labour to...

Polly Toynbee: This week, Miliband made a Labour win look possible again

Suddenly everything changed. David Miliband stepped up as the man with a plan to take the fight to the Tories, the man to free the party from the bondage of disastrous leadership. Judging from an avalanche of emails pouring in,...