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Polly Toynbee works from London, UK. Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist, formerly BBC social affairs editor. Her latest book, with David Walker, is Dismembered, following on from Cameron's Coup Polly Toynbee has over 165229 followers on Twitter.

Capital at core of British elections

By the time you read this, it will be clear if Britain will have another Tory coalition government. But who really holds the power strings in Britain?

UK keeps making excuses on tax

The country must drop the politics, look at what’s right for its people, and start collecting those taxes.

Religious ransom

The religious rallied by torchlight outside the British Houses of Parliament recently. Inside the House of Lords they were voting whether to strike out regulations in the new…

One, truly bad, reason

The grand assemblage of Muslim MPs, members of the House of Lords (peers) and leaders of 38 key United Kingdom groups who signed an open letter to British Prime Minister Tony…

‘Blair must banish religion from public life’

A week after London was hit by a series of bomb blasts, the death cult struck again, unstoppable in its deranged religious mania. This time no deaths but a savage reminder of the…

Tony Blair alone bears the blame

The story of the night is the defection from Labour by those marching over to the Lib Dems — and some even to the Tories. Labour MPs never believed those opinion polls giving…

False paeans to the Pope

The eulogies have begun already. Extraordinary things are being written about the Pope for his 25th jubilee this week, yet these are mere aperitifs for the great banquet of…

Afghanistan a year later

So was the war on Afghanistan worth it after all? The daisy-cutters and the cluster bombs, the misguided missiles butchering wedding parties while al-Qaida slipped away? , a year…