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Cameron, with their strong rebuke against the "national crisis" of hunger so much worsened by his welfare policies. They know because their churches house the food banks used by almost a million people. (...) Like all humanity, the religious are both good and bad. The C of E is good on food banks, bad on sex and death. Faith makes people no more virtuous, but nor do rationalists claim any moral superiority. Pogroms, inquisitions, jihadist terror and religious massacres can be matched death for death with the secular horrors of Pol Pot, Hitler or Stalin. The danger is where absolute belief in universal truths, religious or secular, permits no doubt.
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obey, too impatient to get out of there"; she attributed her gaining an Oxford scholarship to its "heavily class-biased exam" being designed "to reward people of exactly my background". After deliberately taking on menial jobs, she took a job that led to her becoming a journalist, something she had never intended.
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as home secretary was a blunder and that
Braverman's promise to reduce immigration to "tens of thousands" was unworkable since more than 270,000 people arrived during the year to March 2022, mostly with visas. Only small numbers arrived in boats." Toynbee further said that Braverman's "dreams" about
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Toynbee has been described as "the queen of leftist journalists", and in 2008 topped a poll of 100 "opinion makers", carried out by
Editorial Intelligence. She was also named the most influential columnist in the UK. Andrew Marr has said that "hat makes her stand out as a journalist is not only her
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said he was impressed by one metaphor in her writings – of society being a caravan crossing a desert, where the people at the back can fall so far behind they are no longer part of the tribe. He added, "I will not be introducing Polly
Toynbee's policies." Toynbee expressed some discomfort with this
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cases were committed by black people, stating that it was "an over-simplification that is seriously misleading". She approvingly quoted academic researcher
Michael Keith, who said: "If you were to standardise for everything else – education, unemployment, housing estates, life chances – race on its
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She dropped out of university after eighteen months, which she regrets, as she was told by her tutor she would. She has variously attributed this to having an affair with a married TV presenter, to having her first novel published in her first term at Oxford, to the pressure of her scholarship and
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Toynbee has written about her privilege in the
British class system, saying that all her family "lived on the left ... locked in combat with the ... forces of conservatism", but were clearly members of a privileged class. Toynbee did badly at school as she was "too rebellious to work, too angry to
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The C of E is a confusing creature. Even while it tussles internally between conservative and liberal wings on gay marriage or female bishops, polls of its members show it's no longer the
Conservative party at prayer: more vote Lib Dem and Labour. Look at the 40 bishops' raspberry of an Easter
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magazine, Toynbee argued that the West should pursue liberal internationalism by intervening through the United
Nations to promote democracy around the world: "Spreading people's right to self-determination, and their right to think and vote for themselves, is a moral obligation… We should be
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to succeed Blair as prime minister, Toynbee continued to endorse him in the early part of his premiership. By spring 2009 she had become sharply critical of Brown, arguing that he had failed to introduce the social-democratic policies he promised, and was very poor at presentation too. She
805:; and even the plan to opt out of EU safety regulations. Conservative Kensington and Chelsea council allegedly blocking its ears to tenants' well-founded anxiety is just the immediate scandal. But this event reaches far deeper, to the very sinews of its party's policy."
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to outlaw incitement to religious hatred: "Race is something people cannot choose and it defines nothing about them. But beliefs are what people choose to identify with...The two cannot be blurred into one – which is why the word
Islamophobia is a nonsense".
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strong views but also her ferocious appetite for research. In a media world in which too many media columnists simply voice their top-of-the-head opinions, Polly always arrives heavily armed with hard facts".
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report on the matter ruled the comments were "insensitive", but did not breach any rules as the organisation's remit does not cover matters of taste and offence. She later apologised for using the term.
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707:(a former SDP member, later to be a Conservative minister) claimed Toynbee should be an influence on the modern Conservative Party, causing a press furore. Reacting to this, Conservative leader
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425:... But I very quickly discovered why people who work in factories don't usually have the energy to write when they get home." She went into journalism, working on the diary at
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431:, and turned her eight months of experience in manual work (along with "undercover" stints as a nurse and an Army recruit) into the book
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Rwanda and cruelty and putting arrivals into squalid conditions in the Manston processing centre disrupted policy."
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1982:"Asbos for the millionaires: A strong and hopeful analysis of the growing gap between Britain's rich and poor"
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1212:"Why can't I get behind Corbyn, when we want the same things? Here's why | Polly Toynbee"
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2086:"At last, Jeremy. Now Labour's mission must be to prevent any Brexit: Polly Toynbee"
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RSA Vision webcast – Polly Toynbee elaborates on the findings of her new book
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2068:"Theresa May was too scared to meet the Grenfell survivors. She's finished"
1900:"News >> Commission's decision in the case of various v The Guardian"
1390:"What my privileged start in life taught me about the British class system"
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409:) until she was expelled by the government. She published her first novel,
363:, leaving with 4 O-levels, which she describes as 'bad'. She then attended
2018:"Don't fall for Philip Hammond's budget trickery. There is an alternative"
2001:"If Theresa May really cares about the poor, she must change course – now"
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subsequently called for his departure, voluntary or otherwise. In the
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Lost Children: Story of Adopted Children Searching for Their Mothers
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Toynbee is a member of the Labour Party. She and her first husband,
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Unjust Rewards: Exposing the Greed and Inequality in Britain Today
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1673:"The fight for the centre ground is throttling British politics"
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Toynbee also criticised Sunak's initial decision to miss the
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In 1995, Toynbee criticised Metropolitan Police Commissioner
607:), reacting instead by rejoining Labour only after the rump
1724:"Polly Toynbee the Tory guru: that's barking. Or maybe not"
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Toynbee previously worked as social affairs editor for the
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in the 1983 general election. She now broadly supports the
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1961:"Review: Unjust Rewards by Polly Toynbee and David Walker"
1614:"(Re-)ordering the world: dilemmas of liberal imperialism"
775:(2008) they argued that "excess at the top hurts others".
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In October 2010, Toynbee was criticised for an article in
1942:"Polly Toynbee Voted UK's 'Most Influential' Commentator"
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Polly Toynbee and Andrew Pierce on air and rail strikes
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about an experimental period voluntarily living on the
2530:"Polly Toynbee forgets to check her privilege on Marr"
587:(SDP) breakaway from Labour in 1981, both signing the
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Social Democratic Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
1840:"Your heart might say Clegg. But vote with your head"
268:, although she was critical of its left-wing leader,
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for journalism in 1998 (for journalism published by
2337:"Polly Toynbee – Congregations – University of Kent"
1822:"Throw out bad councils and vote Lib Dem for Europe"
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An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and other Radicals
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767:With her partner, former Social Affairs editor of
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2144:National Secular Society. Retrieved 27 July 2019
545:Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
1429:"Polly Toynbee: Reborn, as a lady of the right"
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829:in November 2022, Toynbee argued that choosing
2628:Political Journalist of the Year 2003 citation
2140:"National Secular Society Honorary Associates"
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973:Toynbee was awarded an honorary degree by the
755:, which Toynbee said was not her intention. A
2429:"Media top 100 2007 : 79. Polly Toynbee"
1446:Professor David P Forsythe (11 August 2009).
955:; she has opposed both religious and secular
879:. Consider transferring direct quotations to
839:2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference
676:over their nose if they had to, to make sure
313:, the second daughter of the literary critic
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1654:"Toynbee: the great comic figure of the age"
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538:assistant, during which time she contracted
2367:"Seven honoured by the University of Leeds"
2216:(London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), p. 182.
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627:own would have virtually no significance."
386:family expectations, and to taking up with
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1452:. Oxford University Press. pp. 164–.
908:, Toynbee is an Honorary Associate of the
668:, "Giving Blair a bloody nose". She urged
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1884:. London. 29 October 2010. Archived from
1583:"Mugging: is it a black and white issue?"
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1179:The International Who's Who of Women 2002
794:and its adverse effects on patient care.
641:intervening now in the Congo and Sudan."
486:Polly Toynbee speaks at the October 2005
1930:. London. 29 October 2010. BBC. Radio 4.
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2228:(10 June 2005), quoted in Meer, p. 182.
1780:"Gordon Brown: no ideas and no regrets"
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1123:Better or Worse?: Has Labour Delivered?
176: 1970; died 1992)
2777:People educated at Holland Park School
1980:Sutherland, Ruth (14 September 2008).
940:In 2003, upon the 25th anniversary of
534:employee, a cake factory worker and a
2256:"Why are the atheists shy of debate?"
1347:Langley, William (26 November 2006).
1182:. London: Europa. 2001. p. 580.
951:Toynbee has mixed feelings about the
916:, and was appointed President of the
870:too many or overly lengthy quotations
591:. Toynbee stood for the party at the
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2170:Toynbee, Polly (28 September 2001).
1671:Toynbee, Polly (23 September 2005).
1210:Toynbee, Polly (27 September 2016).
583:(from 1970), were supporters of the
285:newspaper. She is vice-president of
2772:People educated at Badminton School
2697:Alumni of St Anne's College, Oxford
2482:Baker, Norman (23 September 2015).
959:beliefs. In April 2014, she wrote:
2687:21st-century British women writers
2672:20th-century British women writers
2454:Alliss, Peter (22 December 2003).
1959:Reeves, Richard (23 August 2008).
1856:Toynbee, Polly (25 October 2010).
1801:"Gordon Brown must go – by June 5"
1549:(London: Macmillan, 1991), p. 588.
1427:McSmith, Andy (26 November 2006).
1109:Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain
507:Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain
407:unilaterally declared independence
328:Her grandfather was the historian
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2509:Zoe Williams (29 November 2006).
1637:Chaundy, Bob (24 November 2006).
1622:Vol. 149, No. 5501 (2002), p. 52.
1509:"SPA Executive Committee 2007–08"
928:. She wrote: "The pens sharpen –
788:UK government austerity programme
555:, and serves as President of the
443:Toynbee worked for many years at
118:Social Affairs editor (1988–1995)
2682:21st-century British journalists
2662:20th-century British journalists
2554:. E-activist.com. Archived from
2456:"Some who turned the offer down"
1692:"Hold your nose and vote Labour"
1690:Toynbee, Polly (13 April 2005).
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825:Writing about the government of
319:Lieutenant-Colonel George Powell
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1922:"Are the Tories being bullied?"
1751:Toynbee, Polly (29 June 2007).
1559:Toynbee, Polly (1 March 2011).
1286:Toynbee, Polly (7 April 2015).
1021:, East Sussex. She also owns a
730:European Elections of June 2009
630:In a 2002 debate hosted by the
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2767:National Youth Theatre members
2702:British anti-poverty advocates
2667:20th-century British novelists
1820:Toynbee, Polly (1 June 2009).
1799:Toynbee, Polly (12 May 2009).
1581:Toynbee, Polly (7 July 1995).
1388:Toynbee, Polly (20 May 2023).
1242:. British Humanist Association
1005:to be made a Commander of the
601:unilateral nuclear disarmament
571:Political history and opinions
504:(2001), in 2003 she published
494:Following in the footsteps of
397:, in 1966, she had worked for
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2782:People from the Isle of Wight
1778:Toynbee, Polly (2 May 2009).
780:poverty in the United Kingdom
732:she advocated a vote for the
551:Currently Toynbee writes for
359:, a private girls' school in
136:(until 1981; c. 1990–present)
16:English journalist and writer
2737:British critics of religions
2614:Interview with Polly Toynbee
2291:London South Bank University
2160:, Volume 10, Number 4, 2001.
1652:Jones, Lewis (August 2008).
1449:Encyclopedia of Human Rights
979:London South Bank University
918:British Humanist Association
808:She is a strong opponent of
563:and deputy treasurer of the
260:and was a candidate for the
66:, Isle of Wight, England, UK
2528:Steerpike (10 April 2016).
1904:Press Complaints Commission
1007:Order of the British Empire
757:Press Complaints Commission
463:. She has also written for
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2787:Presidents of Humanists UK
1138:(with David Walker, 2008)
1031:the Arts Emergency Service
644:Toynbee strongly supports
2742:English women journalists
2717:British atheism activists
2498:– via Google Books.
1316:"Obituary: Anne Wollheim"
1153:(with David Walker, 2015)
914:Humanist Society Scotland
786:. She has criticized the
557:Social Policy Association
76:St Anne's College, Oxford
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2807:British women columnists
2797:The Guardian journalists
2752:Labour Party (UK) people
2584:columns by Polly Toynbee
2239:False paeans to the Pope
1876:"Hysterics over housing"
1349:"Profile: Polly Toynbee"
910:National Secular Society
877:summarize the quotations
797:In the aftermath of the
684:would not win thanks to
622:'s comments that 80% of
2747:British women novelists
2488:. Biteback Publishing.
983:Loughborough University
792:National Health Service
672:readers to vote with a
585:Social Democratic Party
526:in a primary school, a
520:National Health Service
262:Social Democratic Party
2802:The Independent people
2511:"A primitive reaction"
2158:Women's History Review
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559:. She is chair of the
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332:, her grandmother was
253:newspaper since 1998.
125:columnist (since 1998)
2692:21st-century atheists
2677:20th-century atheists
2408:The Orwell Foundation
2200:18 December 2020 p. 9
1029:. She is a member of
912:, a supporter of the
803:Lakanal House tragedy
738:2010 general election
723:Having advocated for
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662:2005 General Election
632:Royal Society of Arts
615:, collapsed in 1990.
593:1983 general election
589:Limehouse Declaration
485:
459:. She later rejoined
399:Amnesty International
2552:"Media Diversity UK"
1722:(23 November 2006).
1612:and Hazem Saghiyeh,
1547:A Life at the Centre
1266:mydeath-decision.org
999:British Press Awards
695:Toynbee speaking to
369:comprehensive school
305:Toynbee was born at
295:My Death My Decision
291:British Press Awards
2732:British republicans
2558:on 23 December 2020
2092:. 25 February 2019.
1966:The Daily Telegraph
1910:on 1 December 2010.
1888:on 31 October 2010.
1881:The Daily Telegraph
1729:The Daily Telegraph
1639:"Faces of the week"
1515:on 8 September 2006
1353:The Daily Telegraph
1324:. 27 November 2004.
1037:Select bibliography
995:University of Leeds
987:The Open University
975:University of Essex
799:Grenfell Tower fire
365:Holland Park School
47:Mary Louisa Toynbee
2622:Third Way magazine
2347:on 26 January 2017
2287:"Honorary Degrees"
2245:(17 October 2003).
2172:"Behind the burka"
2113:. 1 November 2022.
1043:Leftovers: A Novel
991:University of Kent
946:William Lane Craig
784:Working Tax Credit
703:In December 2006,
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496:Barbara Ehrenreich
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