标签: Toynbee
Police failures, soaring waiting lists, pool closures: one day’s news in Tory Britain
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Public opinion is moving only in one direction, jolted by each day’s worsening news. It is certainly not towards the ever-shrinking state offered by the two candidates in the Tory leadership race, as most voters reali...
If the Murdoch press is so panicked about recession, why did it back austerity and Brexit?
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The gloves are off and it’s bare-knuckle, below-the-belt slugging. 但约翰逊“给出了非常彻底和充分的道歉，应该受到尊重”. High time they grappled with the terrifying enormity of the waves of destitution rolling over millions already neither heating nor eating, facin...
The Tories are swerving wildly to the right as Truss and Sunak promise the impossible
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The Bank of England raises rates in the biggest jump since 1995. Just to “do something”, it deepens the cost of living crisis while doing nothing to ease inflation caused by the global price of energy and food. How co...
Myths about generous benefits mask the truth of Tory Britain: shamefully low taxes for the rich
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本星期, a member of the Tory-voting audience in the BBC leadership debate said the following: “I’m really happy the government have basically contributed towards universal credit and people on benefits, but I’m a s...
Would-be Tory leaders aren’t facing up to dire state of the NHS
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The sound and fury of the squalid scramble to lead the nasty party ignores all the real crises. The burning planet is nowhere on the agenda, bar locking up climate protesters. As the pay crunch heads for almighty stri...
Weeks of Truss and Sunak tearing lumps out of each other should bring nothing but joy for Labour
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The Duke of Wellington, surveying his troops, said he didn’t know what effect the spectacle would have on the enemy, “but, by God, they frighten me”. What’s left of the serious elements of the Conservative party are f...
What an embarrassment that debate was: Labour will be laughing all the way to the polls
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Is that it? Is what we saw on ITV’s Sunday night debate really all that the “world’s most successful party” can stump up, in these dying days of its 12-year run in power? Not a whisper of a new idea from any of them, ...
Suella Braverman exits stage right, but the Mad Hatter’s Tory tea party goes on and on
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On with the Mad Hatter’s tea party, as they all move up a place and Suella Braverman falls out. This leadership race is a strangely unreal world of phantasms. Its candidates inhabit a twilight zone where true belief i...
Tory chancers are turning the leadership contest into a wild battle of extremists
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Empty power-lust is a dispiriting spectacle. The array of contenders jostling for the hollow crown are a motley ship of fools or knaves, striving to outbid each other with fantasy policies and vast tax cuts that never...
最后, Boris Johnson’s ministers have had enough of defending the monstrously indefensible
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What took them so long? The chancellor and the health secretary have gone. Others may have jumped before the ink is dry on this, kicking themselves for not taking the lead as this cabinet of accomplices finally calcul...
Families facing income woes on a par with Greece and Cyprus? That’s ‘global Britain’
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Read this, and you may just put your head in your hands, gather up your family and plan to emigrate. This year’s annual living standards audit from the Resolution Foundation contains graphs that risk plunging readers ...
What happened to us, the children of the 1960s? We have it all: we need to give some back
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Bad news arrives from the latest census. My generation has finally overtaken the young, with more over-65s than under-15s in England and Wales for the first time in history. 我们, the postwar demographic bulge, now domi...
The NHS wreckers cannot accept that the British public still back it
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“Are we falling out of love with the NHS?” That Spectator question ricochets around the rightwing media in a hailstorm of attacks on the NHS. They expect trouble if next month’s NHS pay review bodies recommend deeper ...
Why does the UK still have such a shameful attitude to poverty and benefits?
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What is the matter with this country? A rising tide of poor families is cast into deeper deprivation because of the meanness of Britain’s benefits system and our punitive public attitudes. We have mislaid what George ...
The rail strikes are just the start. Tory cruelty has left workers no choice but to fight back
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“Class struggle,” proclaims Mick Lynch, the leader of the RMT union. The Daily Mail relishes his “prehistoric rhetoric”, gleeful at what it hopes will turn into another culture war. Class struggle may sound old-fashio...