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Polly Toynbee: Faced with an economic downturn, Gordon Brown must spread the pain fairly - not carry on squeezing the low-paid

Today in Times Comment Libby Purves: Cherie Blair: enough to make you weep David Aaronovitch: Burma - the case for intervention Chris Patten: Who’s afraid of big bad China? Why? Chris Ayres: There will be blood around here too Mick…

Polly Toynbee: This generation is going to be expensive. But a voluntary, late-in-life or after-death payment scheme ticks every box

Letters: Polly Toynbee is completely right when she urges MPs to resist attempt to cut rights to abortion

Polly Toynbee: MPs must hold firm in the face of a mendacious, emotive and unscientific campaign to cut the time limit from 24 to 20 weeks

Polly Toynbee: It’s not the Tories who are the stupid party now, and it will take some scorched-earth thinking to win the voters back

An estimated half of the eastern European immigrants who came here since 2004
have now returned home because they find Great Britain unremittingly
ghastly. Some 200,000 packed their bags in despair having watched Des Browne
and Polly Toynbee jabbering on the BBC’s Question Time last week. Thousands
more booked their easyJet flights to Lodz and Bratislava when it was
announced that another season of The Catherine Tate Show had been
commissioned. The lousy weather, the stabbings, the congestion charge they
could all put up with. But some things just drive you over the edge.

Polly Toynbee: Instead of panicking at corporate scare stories, Brown should join forces internationally to make firms pay fair taxes