Polly Toynbee is een Britse journaliste en schrijfster wiens journalistiek wordt gekenmerkt door een sterke sociaaldemocratische overtuiging en pleidooi voor meer links beleid. In haar teksten richt ze zich op sociale kwesties en bevordert ze actief maatschappelijke verandering. Haar stijl is indringend en analytisch, en zet vaak aan tot diepere reflectie over sociale ongelijkheid en politiek. Haar schrijven wordt gewaardeerd om zijn intellectuele eerlijkheid en streven naar vooruitgang.
Britain has the lowest social spending and the highest poverty in Europe. As the income gap between top and bottom has widened, so social mobility has shuddered to a halt. The low-paid are caught in an economic double bind that victimises them and shames the rest of us.
An authoritative survey of 2010-20: what went wrong, what went right, and what's next for Britain.
Don't mistake David Cameron for a bland PR man. Despite coalition compromises, he has turned out to be more radical than Margaret Thatcher. She privatised industries. But he planned to dismantle the welfare state itself - starting with the NHS. The cuts signalled an assault on Britain's post-war social settlement. Children, young people and the poor are bearing the brunt. Social welfare, police, council services, housing and legal aid are under fierce attack. Will it succeed? Writing with their trademark incisiveness and wit, Toynbee and Walker report how a party that failed to wi.
What is the state? And what's it ever done for you? In this book, the author travels around Great Britain gathering the voices of the people who make up the state: nurses and patients, teachers and parents, policemen and civilians. It lays bare the deliberate dismantling of the public sector and its consequences.
Two acclaimed journalists examine the state of the country in light of this year's election.
One of the most respected, prolific and razor-sharp voices in social commentary uses the prism of her extraordinary family to examine the true state of class in Britain.
Lange Zeit war es selbstverständlich, daß eine Adoption ein Durchschneiden aller Bindungen an die leiblichen Eltern bedeutete. Aber muss das wirklich sein? Wem nützt das?Die in diesem Buch Berichtenden kommen alle zu dem Ergebnis, daß es besser ist, die Wahrheit über ihre Herkunft zu erfahren, auch wenn sie manchmal recht bestürzend ist, als im ungewissen zu bleiben.
