The Independent 1997 Polly Toynbee - Abstracts

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