A nimble two-step from The Guardian: 1. Polly Toynbee sends tweet encouraging all and sundry to take part in an open-access online poll being run by the BMJ. 2. The Guardian reports result of said BMJ poll. Then only thing missing, alas, is: 3. The Guardian then realises that reporting a voodoo poll which its

The Reform, the palatial gentlemen’s club in Pall Mall which numbered the traitor Guy Burgess among its members, must be feeling the pinch now that David Walker, the husband of The Guardian’s Polly Toynbee, can no longer wine and dine his contacts there at the taxpayers’ expense. Yeah, yeah, only having pop so they can

David Walker, the former communications director of the Audit Commission, treated many contacts to hospitality to lunch at The Reform Club at the taxpayers' expense.

Read my book Hard Work – all about crossing the class line. I have never, ever pretended to be anything other than what I am, from a family of middle class academics and writers, and lucky. Hmm. So this book, Hard Work then. Toynbee took whatever jobs she could find, often offered for less than

Polly Toynbee says the classless society is a convenient myth

Greg Clark is an unlikely political brawler. Thoughtful and mild-mannered, the minister for planning is one of the intellectuals behind David Cameron's Conservative modernisation, a champion of windfarms and Polly Toynbee.

I got this far, para 2, into Polly Toynbee’s latest piece and gave up. But just a week since rioting kicked off, the political significance has yet to dawn. So far, the small-staters are losing. A small state means – and Cameron has not budged – a smaller police force and shrunken social programmes, with

Still a scumbag though! Hey, we're moving towards elected police chiefs - no thanks to 'sir' Al's Labour Party - so I guess we'll soon find out if the Great British Public want their money spent on real police officers, or on paying grandstanding berks in uniform to act like the Polly Toynbee of Solihull. UPDATE: Thinking further about this, consider the contrast between this guy and the Cop Blogg...

Go back to The Guardian it looks like.

Polly Toynbee in the Guardian back in July: The return from a tiny government investment is probably greater in the cultural industries than any other – every £1 the Arts Council England puts in generates another £2 from commercial sources. The UK Film Council, quoted in the Independent in August:"But the UKFC doesn't waste money, it makes it. For every pou...