6 stories 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…
As one venue after another goes dark, the creative sector and its low-paid employees are in desperate need of support
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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…
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 …
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…
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…