Browsing: Toynbee

Once in a while, footsoldiers of the House of Commons, you are able to make history by leaving your own indelible footprints on the social fabric.…

An astounding change is happening to life in England and Wales that most people don’t know about, and when they are told they don’t believe it.…

“People pleaser!” That’s the insult Andy Burnham’s enemies sneer at him. And yes, he will need all his mightiest people-pleasing talents to win over voters to…

If the country seems to be slipping away from reason and trust in science, blame usually falls on modern phenomena such as social media and its…

The diagnosis is dire. Alan Milburn has published the first part of his forensic report on the lives and chances of young people, their fate after…

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%…

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 market freaked out…

The assisted dying bill is about to die, killed off by a small coterie of peers against the will of the House of Commons and voters…

Class politics is back, as if it ever went away. Robert Jenrick declares that Tories are toffs and “the divide in British politics has become Reform’s…

I catch him before he slips out of the NHS ahead of Christmas. After 46 years in the health service, no better time for an exit…