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Friday, June 26, 2020

The UK arts sector was thriving before coronavirus. It's folly not to save it | Polly Toynbee by Polly Toynbee

Our booming film, television, theatre and design industries can't leap back to life if venues are bankrupt and talent has fled As the furlough scheme tapers off, we are entering a frightenin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]
Friday, March 20, 2020

How about using that £120m Festival of Britain fund to help save our culture now? | Polly Toynbee by Polly Toynbee

As one venue after another goes dark, the creative sector and its low-paid employees are in desperate need of support Coronavirus " latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Savi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]
Thursday, March 9, 2017

Should today's Labour pick up where the SDP left off? This play makes you wonder | Polly Toynbee by Polly Toynbee

Limehouse's story of the party's 80s split mirrors this era so eerily that you could tell the audience was considering itThe time feels right. The then-and-now parallels are so painfully acu…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]
Monday, August 17, 2015

'It's odd to see myself portrayed on stage. Smile more! Don't be so grim!' by Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee squirmed when she saw an actor play her in a theatre adaptation that has intertwined George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London with Hard Work, her own book about living …

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Friday, February 14, 2014

Every family has first world war memories. These are mine | Polly Toynbee by Polly Toynbee

The great war is this year's crucible for national self-examination. But do we know what to do with the absence of conflict?History is there to be mined or undermined, renewed or debunked, a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

In Michael Gove's world Jane Austen, Orwell and Dickens will die out | Polly Toynbee by Polly Toynbee

The core English GCSE is to be stripped of literature " leaving nothing but grammatical correctness and straitjacket languageMichael Gove is Mr M'Choakumchild and Thomas Gradgrind personifie…

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