Polly Toynbee
Winning the argument, losing the country
Winning debates is all well and good, but it does not represent political progress
A class act?
Polly Toynbee’s memoirs test the reader’s patience
Confessions of a Melbourne Bus-Fare Evader
I am become bus, destroyer of bourgeois class consciousness
Plane English
On pyjamas and private jets
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Toasting a maestro
Stranded passengers emerged bewildered into the night of the living dead
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
Lebrecht’s Album of the Year
Not just a great record but an essential one
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
Patostreamers and the decline of public life
A depressing new trend reflects the impoverished state of social existence
