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Polly ToynbeeThe Guardian |
The news is very good (mostly). The cost of full-time childcare in England for children under the age of two has dropped by a phenomenal 39% since...
Labour did it before. Can it do it again, with things being so much harder now? New Labour’s new deal for the young unemployed levered large numbers...
Goodbye (almost) to the hereditary peers, voted out on Tuesday night. But they didn’t go without a vicious tooth-and-nail fight. Labour should be...
No government in my lifetime has been dealt a worse hand than Keir Starmer’s. Austerity-broken public services, an empty Treasury, a jittery bond...
The BBC may have a over one and a half years before its charter expires in December 2027, but the public consultation on its renewal closes next week....
At home and abroad, Labour and its leader are under siege. Though the Gorton and Denton result is history now, the repercussions roil his party and...
Relief – but another unforced error from Starmer A mighty sigh of relief sweeps across the country. Above all else, what mattered was the emphatic...
Babies are beautiful. I always want to smile at them in the street, perhaps because they are a rarer and more precious sight in this ageing country or...
The great gulf between left and right yawns deeper and wider. One way or another, the Gorton and Denton byelection this week will reveal this profound...
You don’t have to be in Gorton and Denton for long to know that next week’s byelection really matters. If Labour wins in what has been an over-50%...
What were they thinking? Labour inherited the worst of everything, including prisons beyond breaking point, court backlogs as bad as NHS waiting...