He looks the part, with a rise as impressive as his speeches, but is that enough? You cannot know if someone is up to the job until they have to do it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee ...

Letters: Hylton Guthrie says the UK has a problem with opaque political funding, while Andy McWilliam wonders if the closure of the High Pay Centre presents Andy Burnham with an opportunity ...

A savage indictment of years of Conservative rule and how social democracy can set it right No sooner had the exit poll dropped on election night than commentators were warning that Labour had a ...

Join the Guardian’s Polly Toynbee, with co-author David Walker, as they discuss their new book, The Only Way is Up, live in London and livestreamed globally. Date: Tuesday 24 September 2024 Times: ...

An Uneasy Inheritance makes clear that the weight of family history hangs heavy on her shoulders in a way that heritage – no matter how gilded and grand – never troubles a Tory. “The hard truth is ...

Not that we really expect Polly Toynbee to ever really learn anything about economics or the economy but it is still irritating to see her rolling out the same, untrue, assertions. For she is, once ...

Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article about the prayer row at Michaela community school in London Polly Toynbee’s articles are always worth reading, but to keep religion out of schools is, in my ...

The writer and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee has an extraordinary family history. Her maternal great-grandfather and a renowned classical scholar, Gilbert Murray, was the inspiration for Adolphus ...