| The Independent 1996 Polly Toynbee |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| A cowardly business. (key industry leaders in the UK fail to support politicians who favour closer links with Europe)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| A farewell to arms - of the dottier sort. (need for reform of the UK's charity laws)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| A government divorced from reality. (UK government to provide extra support for marriage organisations)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| A heroine amid the drugs hysteria. (Mary Hartnoll, Glasgow's director of social work, criticised for claiming that Ecstasy is relatively safe)(Column)(Interview) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| An escape from the prison mentality. (US moves away from increasing prison capacity)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| An everyday story of how the Daily Mail digs its dirt - and how to throw it back. (experiences of the methods of tabloid journalists) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Animal rights can damage your health. (impact of growing opposition to vivisection)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| A novel tradition you just can't put down. (mixed views on special prize for women writers)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| A very undiplomatic incident. (departure of Dame Pauline Neville-Jones from the Foreign Office)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| A welfare state of hope, not despair. (moves towards ensuring that the UK welfare system encourages people to seek employment)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Barristers: a law unto themselves. (the Bar resists necessary changes to legal system in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Buy a baby, save a life. (recent television coverage of poor conditions in Chinese orphanages will prompt interest in adopting Chinese babies)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Condemned to a conspiracy of silence. (UK may reform regulations banning gay people from serving in the armed forces)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Cradle of fanaticism. (importance of liberalism in protecting society from dogmatism)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Crime is up! Hit the moral panic button. (fear of crime creates moral panic in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Defectors have only a walk-on part. (UK political parties are not welcoming to people who defect from other parties)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Divorce: our century's great liberator. (positive views on divorce)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Do women deserve the vote? (UK Conservative party still has strong support among women)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Fast forward to the digital revolution. (multi-channelling will increase television viewers' freedom of choice)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Father won't pay? Then punish the mother. (UK Child Support Agency punishes single mothers who refuse to cooperate)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Frightened men, beware! Women are set to fight. (UK Army Board draws up new recommendations on women's fighting role)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Give us hellfire, not opiate, in the God slot. (television and radio handling of religion fails to reflect real world)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Harriet and the heroine: battle royal in Blackpool. (Barbara Castle and Harriet Harman clash over pensions)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| He needed school, not a safari. (Jason Cooper, who was taken on expensive holidays when in local authority care as a teenager)(Interview) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Howard's prison time-bomb. (UK prison system in danger of collapse)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| How liberal is new Labour?(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| How long before Howard's prisons burst? (continued rise in prison population in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| How Swift's old-age horrors came true. (problems associates with people living longer)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| How to collect your inheritance early. (many elderly people keen to give away their assets in order to avoid liability for paying for long-term care)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| If crime is a disease then this is the cure. (impact of nursery education on reducing crime rates)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Imprisonment of truth. (politicians have negative impact on public debate)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Imprudent turkeys plumping for guns and no brains. (UK government's 1996 Budget goes against public opinion)(Budget special)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| It's been ever so warm in Blackpool. (UK Labour party's 1996 annual conference in Blackpool, England) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| It's time to swing back to the Sixties.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| It's working, women. (many British women now working)(Women work) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Just say No to this agonising aunt. (agony aunts adapt to changing moral climate in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Keep God out of the classrooms. (state status for Muslim schools)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Legal leeches are bleeding the NHS. (problems caused by rise in medical negligence cases)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Lilley v Harman: riding the tiger of single motherhood. (ways of helping single mothers to work)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Litigation is the wrong medicine. (blaming the NHS for the birth of severely disabled children)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Marital breakdown is a fact of life. Accept it. (UK Family Law Bill abolishes concept of fault in divorce)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Mourners at the grave of trade unionism. | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| New Age may be mainstream, but it's a mistake. (New Age developments attract ordinary people)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| No one really wins in this life-and-death lottery. (many patients refuse to take part in clinical trials of new drugs)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Poverty by a thousand cuts. (negative impact of reducing welfare schemes in the UK) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Private tolerance and public panic. (openness in society clashes with concern about decline in moral values)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Rupert Murdoch is weeks from conquest.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Schism, here we come! (UK Conservative party fails to become united)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Silence of Britain's political lambs. (UK Labour and Conservative parties unwilling to debate sensitive issues of national importance)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Single mums and the curse of Catholicism. (UK still has ambivalent attitude towards contraception)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Sin, myth and the crusaders. (trends in the moral debate in the UK in 1996) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Stop Murdoch now or regret it. (Rupert Murdoch set to take control of future of UK broadcasting)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Stung by a fly on the wall. (Jeremy Isaacs leaves position as general director of the Royal Opera House)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Tell the Fat Controller road rage is OK by me. (advantages of travelling by car)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The age of innocence is dead, killed by suspicion. (Children's Country Holiday Fund closes down all holidays for 1996 amid fears about child abuse)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The alternative to crime and exclusions. (schemes for dealing with social problems in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The best intentions won't save a bad marriage. (compulsory counselling for couples who plan to divorce could create problems)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The cost of being Europe's squaddies. (UK invests in Eurofighters)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The NHS's great kidney failure. (severe lack of kidney dialysis facilities in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The price of health and the doctor's dilemma. (National Health Service guilty of rationing drugs)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The Queen of Counselling is made for Relate. (Princess of Wales makes ideal patron for Relate)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The relative value of mice and men. (animal rights groups have negative impact on medical research)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| 'The right to divorce is more important than many civil liberties including freedom of speech and freedom to vote.' (mixed views on the freedom to divorce)(Column) | Retail industry | Melanie Phillips, Polly Toynbee |
| The right to leave a living death. (extreme old age brings many problems)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| The sinister sound of democracy trickling away. (UK government takes inconsistent line on regulation of television broadcasting)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| They've learned to live with cannibals. (political views of the residents of Barnsley, England)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Thou shalt love they natural parents. (court rules that Zulu child must be returned to his natural mother, with whom he cannot communicate)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Tony, Gordon and no Joy. (Joy Johnson departs from post as Labour party's campaigns director)(Interview) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| TV meets the law of the jungle. (negative aspects of shift towards digital television broadcasting in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| We have ways of making you work. (UK government seeks to encourage the unemployed to take available work)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| We need the BBC, and Auntie needs her friends. (criticism of BBC at 1996 Edinburgh International Television Festival)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| What's wrong with the BBC today ....(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Where do all the New Men go? (men will not take on women's roles)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Who'll bear an unwanted foetus? (views on embryo adoption)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Why do they hate her so much? (Conservative MP Emma Nicholson widely criticised for defecting to Liberal Democrats)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Why I should give back my widow's pension. (views on universal benefits)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Why Mr Masari is good for us. (impact of moves by Saudi dissident Mohammed al-Masari to seek asylum in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Why the green shopper is not being properly served. (problems associated with ethical consumerism)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Why the state can't fix the family. (UK government aims to encourage more single mothers to give their babies up for adoption)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Why turn away these perfect citizens? (moves to prevent Hong Kong Chinese from coming to the UK are misguided)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| Will Parliament resist Rupert's grip? (Rupert Murdoch)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
| You can't kill bookworms. (collapse of Net Book Agreement did not have negative impact on British literature)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
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