The Independent 1997 Polly Toynbee |
Title | Subject | Authors |
After the landslide, let's get back to democracy. (need to make changes to UK's system of voting)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
A glimpse at the dark heart of Toryism. (Conservative MP David Evans causes embarrassment to his party)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
A good home's where the art is. (social impact of local arts projects)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
A much meaner tribe. (the UK's main political parties are not the same)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
A naive fish in very dangerous waters. (BBC supports Murdoch/Carlton/Granada consortium's bid for digital terrestrial television licence) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
A New Deal, but old money, for Lone Parents.(measures to encourage lone parents to work in the United Kingdom)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
An inspector calls on privatised care. (UK government to take new approach to regulation of private care homes for the elderly)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Anti-abortionists' conception of a baby lacks conviction.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
As the season of suffering looms, doctors should be brought to account.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Asylum-seekers hunger for justice.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
At a theatre near you: the tragedy of misdirected lottery funding.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Beware new housing traps for the poor. (UK fails to learn the lessons of the tower blocks of the 1960s)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Britain booms as the health service ails. (UK's economic boom will not last)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Dead? No, the Tory tiger is still a dangerous beast. (United Kingdom Conservative party)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Don't be scared of the nanny instinct; it means well. (emergence of puritanism in United Kingdom in 1997) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Don't let them tell you it doesn't matter who wins. (importance of not being indifferent to outcome of UK's general election)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Don't put your daughter into newspapers, Mrs Worthington. (many aspiring journalists will not find employment)(Media +) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Even now, they still perform the rite of spite. (UK's Social Market Foundation opposed to welfare state)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Howard's dismal legacy - Straw's great opportunity. (UK home secretary Michael Howard; shadow home secretary Jack Straw)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
How Welfare to Work will succeed (yet still fail).(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
In defence of Islamophobia. (Runnymede Trust calls for understanding and protection for United Kingdom's Muslim community)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
It's a waste of money being hard on soft-drug users.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
John Bull shows his cultural pedigree. (revival of cultural activity in the United Kingdom)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Labour must save the people, not their marriages. (United Kingdom government avoids adopting moral tone)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Labour promises a new Camelot. (UK Labour party leader Tony Blair makes commitment to saving a divided society)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Labour's Big Idea - will it really work? (United Kingdom government's welfare to work project)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Leopards that will spring out on Labour. (future Labour government in the UK would have to consider whether to abolish extra funding for single parents)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Life or death? We must all decide. (need for public participation in difficult decisions about expensive medical treatments)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Local radio? Why not news from your own street? (radio's potential for creating sense of community in the UK)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Major has been fishing in troubled waters. (UK Prime Minister John Major refuses to agree to reducing fish catch)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Message from Wisconsin: nirvana is a job in a fast food joint. (Wisconsin's workfare programmes copied by other countries)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Middle England's not worth listening to. (mixed views about plans to make significant changes to BBC's Radio 4 programming)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
No more talk: let's just put an end to poverty.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
No promises to keep the NHS fully funded.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Nothing's so gripping as a good divorce, but we must hold back. (United Kingdom government's planned privacy legislation)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
One promise that Labour really ought to break. (reducing United Kingdom National Health Service waiting lists)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Over the Haagen-Dazs the talk is all of the end of poverty. (United Kingdom Labour party's 1997 annual conference focuses on abolition of poverty)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Polly Toynbee: the truth about BBC bias.(Media +) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Scaring mothers? It's Panorama's bit of fun. (television programme claims that full-time working mothers damage their children)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
So farewell then, John Major, man of shadows.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Suits you, madam. (using image consultant)(City +) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Tagging along with Michael Howard. (United Kingdom Home Secretary Jack Straw may release prisoners early and tag them)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Talk tough, but carry a small stick. (UK Home Secretary Jack Straw)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Terminal Five at Heathrow: as certain as the global crisis it will help to encourage.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The committee awakes - to loud debate, we hope.(significance of the appointment of Chris Mullen as chairman of the United Kingdom Commons Home Affairs Select Committee)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
'The cost to society is so great it makes me dizzy.'(case of United Kingdom student in prison for possessing Ecstasy and cannabis)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The crude words used to woo ignorant voters. (impact of political advertising)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The finest party gets the dustbin vote. (problems facing UK Liberal Democrats)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The hardest sell: persuading Americans to give up shopping. (No Buying Day)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The last chapter of the Royal fairy tale. (United Kingdom Royal Family unable to interpret meaning of public grief at death of Diana, Princess of Wales)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The last testament of a hollow man. (UK prime minister John Major has always lacked vision)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The man from the ministry of culture. (UK Heritage Secretary Chris Smith)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The Palace will not be able to cope with a Saint Diana.(death in car accident of Diana, Princess of Wales)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The run-down estate we're in. (UK politicians unaware of how the poor live) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The sneers show Harman has a mighty task. (UK Minister for Women Harriet Harman hopes to ensure that many single mothers can return to work)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The strangest relationship: nannies and working mothers.(usage of nannies and problems with obtaining childcare in the United Kingdom) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
The Tories were right: workfare really works.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
This is madness, unless we all agree to pay up. (United Kingdom government to decide centrally which new drugs should be prescribed by National Health Service)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
This is no time to go sour on New Labour. (growing disaffection with UK Labour party)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
'Tis the giving time - so why are we donating less?(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Tory talk of family values covers another betrayal. (UK Conservative party will not assist the most needy families)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Two politicians' wives - but not the mirror image they might seem. (Hillary Clinton and Cherie Blair) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Wake up, my Lords. (House of Lords unlikely to see extensive reform)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Wanted: a Department for Banging Heads Together. (United Kingdom's Social Exclusion Unit)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Weasel words in the last-chance saloon. (most United Kingdom newspapers fail to follow Press Complaints Commission's voluntary Code of Practice)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Welfare to work: the gamble that has to pay off.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
What did we want: not just abortion.(abortion in the United Kingdom 30 years after it was legalized in 1967)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Why I trust Jack Straw to do the right thing. (UK shadow home secretary Jack Straw)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Women, the forgotten voters.(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
Yes, the old order is dead - and it's women you should be thanking. (views of social commentator Francis Fukuyama)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
You've squeezed single mothers; when is it the fat cats' turn? (United Kingdom government under moral obligation to take action against those who abuse tax loopholes)(Column) | Retail industry | Polly Toynbee |
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