
Polly Toynbee
Columnist at The Guardian
Writer at The Weekend Papers
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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Is Trump’s ‘baby bond’ really pro-child? No – children need a fair society to thrive | Polly Toynbee
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theguardian.com | Polly Toynbee
Turning children into capitalists – that’s the purpose behind the new “Trump account”, which will give every new baby born in the US during the president’s second term $1,000 to be invested in the stock market. Now, little shareholders can identify with the US companies they invest in. “Hey … I own 50 bucks of McDonald’s” was an example given by senator Ted Cruz.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Gaby Hinsliff |Polly Toynbee |Stella Creasy |Frankie Tobi |Zoe Hitch
Nigel Farage seems to have upstaged the Labour government, pledging to scrap the controversial two-child benefit cap and reverse the cuts to the winter fuel allowance. So why hasn’t the government – after almost a year in power – done more to end child poverty? Gaby Hinsliff, in for John Harris, speaks to the Labour MP Stella Creasy and columnist Polly Toynbee
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Polly Toynbee
It came as a thundering shock. Wellsbourne GP practice in Whitehawk, East Brighton, has just been told it is losing its contract. NHS Sussex, the local integrated care board (ICB), is provisionally handing it over to a distant Leeds-based company whose main business is in owning and managing healthcare properties. This is a story about how parts of the NHS can slip awayto profit-makers, despite the government’s aim to put community first.
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2 weeks ago |
businessandamerica.com | Polly Toynbee
It came as a thundering shock. Wellsbourne GP practice in Whitehawk, East Brighton, has just been told it is losing its contract. NHS Sussex, the local integrated care board (ICB), is provisionally handing it over to a distant Leeds-based company whose main business is in owning and managing healthcare properties. This is a story about how parts of the NHS can slip awayto profit-makers, despite the government’s aim to put community first.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Polly Toynbee
Circle the wagons: Europe draws together confronting an enemy to its east and a rogue state to its west. “Everything has changed,” said the prime minister and chancellor, and so it has. Once nestled in the arms of Nato, now alarmingly alone, we have no choice but to embrace neighbours we shunned. Thanks to Vladimir Putin, (nearly) all Europeans now see clearly what was always the case. In danger we need each other, never mind or dynamic alignment.
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