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	Political Studies Association
		Polly Toynbee’s pieces are never merely polemical, however; instead, they combine a worthwhile cause with detailed presentation of fact, with careful attention to accuracy, and written with sensitivity and often anger and concern.
		Polly Toynbee was born in 1946 on the Isle of Wight.
		Polly Toynbee’s Guardian columns serve as a critical assessment of political, social and economic inequality in modern Britain.
	www.psa.ac.uk /awards2003/toynbee.htm (430 words)

	Polly Toynbee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polly Toynbee (born Mary Louisa Toynbee on December 27, 1946) is a journalist and writer with social democratic views in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper.
		Toynbee expressed strong disapproval of the level of the minimum wage, which she argued should be increased considerably, and also raised concerns about terms and conditions issues such as holiday pay and working hours.
		Toynbee was the second daughter of the literary critic Philip Toynbee (by his first wife Anne), and so granddaughter of the historian Arnold J. Toynbee and thus great-great niece of philanthropist and economic historian Arnold Toynbee who founded Toynbee Hall in the East End of London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Polly_Toynbee (1364 words)

	AtlanticBlog: Polly Toynbee, tax cheat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Toynbee is angry after going to a session organized by a firm of financial advisors, because they laid of strategies for avoiding taxes.
		Toynbee is not altogether specific what she means by "fair share", but I gather at a minimum that those who are better off should pay more.
		Although Toynbee does not share the usual Guardian proclivity to get all gooey and romantic about mass murderers, she does share he usual proclivity of Guardian writers to treat other people as needing the mandatory guidance of the more enlightened folk, as in the kinds of people who write for the Guardian.
	www.atlanticblog.com /archives/002215.html (1089 words)

	Factchecking Pollyanna
		Polly refers to this a lot but doesn't actually like citing it, leaving that to others, those who actually do have a ferocious appetite for research (click here [update: sorry, I mean here] and search for '2orangey4crows' a couple of times to see what I mean).
		Regular readers of this blog know, of course, that Polly Toynbee is sloppy with facts, and that she often doesn't read the research she cites.
		Polly Toynbee was on the Today programme on Radio 4 this morning, being asked about Greg Clark's suggestion, reported in the Guardian, that she should replace Churchill as the inspiration for the Tory party's view of the welfare state. She said that people were sick of:
	factcheckingpollyanna.blogspot.com (3163 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| Faces of the week
		Polly Toynbee has long been a Labour Party supporter apart from a period in the 1980s when she and her husband, the late Peter Jenkins, supported the SDP breakaway party.
		In 2003, Polly Toynbee, together with journalist David Walker, who is also her partner, published a book entitled Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britain for which she spent some time working at menial jobs that paid the minimum wage.
		Her father was the literary critic Philip Toynbee, her grandfather the historian Arnold J. Toynbee while on her mother's side, she is a descendant of the 9th Earl of Carlisle.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/magazine/6180236.stm (1169 words)

	The Daily Ablution: Polly Toynbee Exposes Elitist Hypocrisy
		Radio 4 listeners were treated to the patrician tones of Polly Toynbee (streaming RAM) this morning, as the Today Programme sought her views on the UK's row du jour - that provoked by Prince Charles' views on education and aspiration, as revealed in a private memo made public before an employment tribunal yesterday.
		Toynbee's legions of dedicated fans, the highlight of the conversation (which also included "writer and philosopher Roger Scruton") was no doubt her attack on the Prince for "aspiring to tell other people about subjects he knows nothing about."
		On the one hand she's arguing that children should not be limited in their ambitions and they can achieve their goals, while on the other she's saying that the prince would not have amounted to anything if he had not been born royal.
	dailyablution.blogs.com /the_daily_ablution/2004/11/polly_toynbee_e.html (728 words)

	Polly Toynbee: Cut a deal with the mullahs \| Columnists \| Guardian Unlimited
		Polly Toynbee: This is about the defence of Labour, not the country
		Polly Toynbee: This is a good time to strike at the monstrous power of the media
		Polly Toynbee: I was only the hapless decoy duck for David Cameron
	www.guardian.co.uk /Columnists/Column/0,,1703884,00.html (1197 words)

	Amazon.com: Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britian: Books: Polly Toynbee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Toynbee can be perceptive on small points, but I think she's so in love with the welfare state that she can't see the role it plays in the "root causes" (beloved Guardian-writer phrase) of the desperation of so many of the poor in Britain.
		Toynbee harps on the appalling working conditions that rightly make her angry as evidence that "market forces" don't work for the benefit of the poor.
		I expect Toynbee would throw up her hands in horror at the idea of closing the U.K.'s pliant borders, currently open to any joker who claims asylum, but the mess that she sees in the labor market is one result of the immigration welcome wagon.
	www.amazon.com /Hard-Work-Life-Low-Pay-Britian/dp/0747564159 (1672 words)

	The Daily Ablution: Polly Toynbee's Faux Fat 'Facts'
		What Polly has done is take what is a genuine problem for some people and hijacking it as a vehicle for her own political preoccupations, all the while presenting herself as a concerned onlooker.
		You should realise when Polly says that it is inequality and disrespect that cause obesity, she is referring to soft inequality - the kind that is clearly felt and perceived but can't be measured by crude CIA statistics.
		The real tragedy here is that poor Polly was cheated by the educational institution that granted her a degree; the primary directive of journalistic ethics is the truth, not what one would like to be the truth.
	dailyablution.blogs.com /the_daily_ablution/2004/05/polly_toynbees_.html (8855 words)

	Polly Toynbee
		No astrologer believes that lumps of rock or gas in the sky exert an influence on life on earth,with the exceptions of the sun and moon.Astrology is best understood as the study of the relationship between different patterns,chiefly planetary cycles and events on earth.
		Polly Toynbee is correct in asserting that "The truth is out there,but if you didn't do A-level Physics,forget it",and that "Superstition always seems to get the upper hand".
		Witness on horoscopes (18 June, C4) was scary, not just for the fact that people really believe this stuff, but that some even run their businesses by it, and even scarier, it would appear, that a certain US president, via his wife, ran his government by it.
	www.fortunecity.com /emachines/e11/86/toynbee2.html (1788 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Columnists \| Polly Toynbee
		Polly Toynbee: Government cowardice could be the death of us all
		Polly Toynbee: This brutal surgery is a godsend for those who wish to kill off the NHS
		Polly Toynbee: Avoiding your fare share of taxes is a moral disgrace
	www.guardian.co.uk /Columnists/Archive/0,5673,-25,0.html (298 words)

	Observer review: Hard Work by Polly Toynbee \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		In order to convey this to her largely middle-class readership, Toynbee, a comfortable product of generations of middle-class Toynbees, immerses herself in the lives of the working poor, adopting the lifestyle of a middle-aged, unskilled woman living on Clapham Park estate in London.
		Toynbee explains how they are exploited at every turn because of their need for extra money and flexibility in working hours.
		Toynbee's list of targets is long - her down-and-out phase in Clapham Park threw up all of the barriers set before the poor - neighbours from hell, low-skill/low-pay jobs, a lousy environment and poor housing, a latter-day version of Cathy Come Home.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,882172,00.html (959 words)

	The Confessing Reader » Blog Archive » Polly Toynbee weighs in on euthanasia
		Polly Toynbee inveighed in yesterday’s Guardian against the bishops who spoke out against the euthanasia bill in the House of Lords and against other religious leaders (including Jews, Muslims and Sikhs) who signed a petition against Lord Joffe’s euthanasia bill, in her opinion piece, “The bishops have no right to restrict our right to die“.
		Ms Toynbee objects to the secular, non-religious arguments advanced by the bishops in the House in opposition to the bill, and positively chortles that
		However, against her assertion, I have never - never - in 18 years of medical practice, in a busy tertiary care academic medical center and in a small town internal medicine practice, and as director of a hospice, encountered a patient whose pain and anxiety could not be managed with proactive and compassionate palliative care.
	reader.classicalanglican.net /?p=284 (1076 words)

	Fisking Central: Polly Toynbee
		Rusbridger said Toynbee had not asked permission to write for Third Sector; the rule was that staff should not contribute to titles that competed for readers or advertising.
		Toynbee said she thought the rule had fallen out of use: several Guardian writers, including staff, wrote for publications that were, to some extent, competitors.
		Polly Toynbee is fisked at length over at Devil's Kitchen (again).
	fiskingcentral.typepad.com /fisking_central/polly_toynbee/index.html (444 words)

	The Daily Ablution: FLASH: Polly Toynbee Solves Centuries-Old Dilemma of Social Inequality!
		Polly doesn't say why this is so, but her word is good enough for us.
		Posted by: David Smith at Jan 5, 2004 11:24:44 AM I allways like to see Polly Toynbee as the embodyment of one the most evil characters in any book, namely "Diana Moon Glampers" look her up in google to read the very good story by Kurt Vonnegut.
		Posted by: suzi at May 22, 2004 4:23:18 PM Polly Toynbee is dreadful.
	dailyablution.blogs.com /the_daily_ablution/2004/01/flash_polly_toy.html (1210 words)

	polly toynbee \| the highstreet web - bringing you the UK's favourite shops and websites
		If I were Polly Toynbee, and my good ole boy media network was collapsing around me, I'd be...
		Polly Toynbee took up the challenge of living...
		Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist and broadcaster and was formerly the BBC's social affairs editor.
	www.thehighstreetweb.com /polly+toynbee (217 words)

	Random Observations: Polly Toynbee on Iran: We Should Give Up Now
		The Guardian's Polly Toynbee states there is absolutely "nothing to be done" about the "mad mullahs of Iran".
		So has Polly, a denizen of the left, come to her senses about the uselessness of promises from dictators, of the kind which paralyzed the free world long enough to allow North Korea to gain nuclear weapons?
		One wonders what the terms of Polly's deal would be -- her article is woefully short on specifics.
	tim.2wgroup.com /blog/archives/001132.html (985 words)

	Polly Toynbee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I'm still asking for confirmation of the relationship between this Toynbee and Arnold Toynbee.
		(a columnist of many years' standing), The Guardian writer Polly Toynbee went to town on the "coterie of reactionary fogeys centred on The Spectator.
		I wasn't actually looking for something this juicy, or indeed for anything about or by Toynbee, but this just popped out, as did the Telegraph's rather different considered reflection (than The Times) on the Michael Meacher affair in Toynbee's Guardian.
	clublet.com /why?PollyToynbee (438 words)

	Tim Worstall: Polly Toynbee on Child Poverty (Again). (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Polly Toynbee has a near brush with economics:
		Different people can legitimately have different opinions on this but that is, at least I think it is, the point that the LSE economist was making (at least I hope it was, wouldn’t want to think that someone at my alma mater would miss that point).
		At least we now actually have a measure of what Polly would think is a socially just society, a number we can look at and when we reach it we can wrap up and all go home.
	timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2005/01/polly_toynbee_o.html (987 words)

	Blair, the BBC and the Devil's Dilemma
		London — ''A dead man from beyond the grave talks with terrible authority,'' writes author Polly Toynbee in The Guardian this week, ''his recorded words hang there in the air.'' So may the political fate of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his rationale for going to war with Iraq.
		On July 17 at 3 p.m., Dr. David Kelly, one of the British government's leading experts on Iraq's weapons-of-destruction programs, told his wife he was going out for a walk in the countryside around his Oxfordshire home.
		Polly Toynbee concluded in The Guardian this week: "In the dangerous drama now unfolding, the BBC is only a sideshow.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0818-08.htm (1347 words)

	MaxedOutMama: Polly Toynbee Vs Aslan
		I think Polly Toynbee objects to C. Lewis' rebuttal of her beliefs about what Christianity really is (and for that matter, what Judaism really is).
		I haven't read anything else by Polly Toynbee, but I would bet she is an advocate of Israel's destruction.
		People like Toynbee react as if the choice of military personnel to risk their lives in the defense of others is a personal reproach.
	maxedoutmama.blogspot.com /2005/12/polly-toynbee-vs-aslan.html (1435 words)

	ParaPundit: Polly Toynbee On Aftermath Of The Fall Of The Taliban
		ParaPundit: Polly Toynbee On Aftermath Of The Fall Of The Taliban
		Polly Toynbee On Aftermath Of The Fall Of The Taliban
		Polly Toynbee visits Afghanistan to see what people think of the overthrow of the Taliban.
	www.parapundit.com /archives/000689.html (658 words)

	Polly 'Toytown' Toynbee
		Site dedicated to Polly Toytown, infallible Guardian columnist, top creepy liberal and her infantile opinions which she is unable to defend in debate.
		(Naturally, Polly Toytown believes fat people are poor, and somehow forced to spend money they don't have on donuts etc. On her planet there is no connection between having money and spending it).
		According to Polly Pot, the fear of crime is very much exaggerated.
	www.webspawner.com /users/pollytoynbee (337 words)

	A Rejoinder to Polly Toynbee - Mambogani Kenya Forums - Kenyan and African Discussion Forums Message Board Chat
		I suspect that Toynbee has chosen to criticise the left for its silence as she is writing from a centre-left perspective and for a centre-left audience.
		I agree with Toynbee because here in the UK I have seen little evidence of the left voicing any concerns when there so blatantly is a need for people of all political and religious persuasions to consider the harsh excesses of militant Islamism.
		What Polly said is that it would be better for Muslims to go to secular schools that are cohesive and all-embracing, rather than specifically Muslim schools where they are likely to get isolated further.
	www.mambogani.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=2839 (6197 words)

	Christopher Lydon Interviews... : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee made a lot of points I hadn't heard before
		Polly Toynbee--writer, broadcaster and grand-daughter of the voluminous Arnold (A Study of History) Toynbee (1889-1975)--says it's not a simple story of the lonely Beeb biting bravely at the government hand that feeds it.
		The driving force in the story, she observes, has been the commercial interest of Rupert Murdoch in media circuses generally and in breaking the BBC brand of international broadcasting for the benefit of his own Sky satellites.
	blogs.law.harvard.edu /lydon/2003/08/18 (510 words)

	Polly Toynbee
		Freedom and Whisky has a great characterisation of a Polly Toynbee event at the Edinburgh Book Festival.
		She told us of when she had been covering George Bush’s election campaign and he had called for the “abolition of the death penalty”.
		Polly proclaimed to the audience: “Imagine calling inheritance tax ‘the death penalty.’” “But it is,” I shouted out.
	www.anoasis.co.uk /archives/000243.html (145 words)

	Untitled Document
		Leading journalist Polly Toynbee was the winner of the 1998 HealthWatch Award for her outstanding contributions in informing the public throughout her career.
		Ms Toynbee was unable to accept the award in person at this year's Annual General Meeting, but she prepared for us the following report of her views on issues that concern HealthWatch, ranging from health screening to bogus diagnostic techniques.
		Questions were put to Ms Toynbee on HealthWatch's behalf by Chairman Professor John Garrow.
	www.healthwatch-uk.org /awardwinners/pollytoynbee.html (1319 words)

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