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Prisons are an overflowing, squalid, absurd waste of money. So why do the public want more of them?

We know longer sentences do more harm than good. Let’s focus our resources on threadbare public services instead, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Visit a Citizens Advice and see: the ‘cost of living’ doesn’t capture this emergency

In Norwich I meet people who earn less than they need to survive, and staff who have never seen anything like this, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Call these voter ID laws what they really are: voter suppression and an attack on young people

Older people lean Conservative – no wonder the government wants to keep younger ones away from ballot boxes, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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There are fairer ways to fund social care for all

Letters: Michael Hill, John Harvey and Tim Johnson on the reforms needed to create a social care system that doesn’t fail people when they’re most vulnerable

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People are dying waiting for social care. Wealthy people’s inheritance issues are not a priority

A cap on the amount individuals pay ignores the much greater needs of those who get no care at all, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Just Stop Oil activists are an example to us all

Letters: We all have a part to play in compelling decision-makers to take the climate crisis seriously, writes James Pertwee. Plus letters from Kristian Ravnkilde and Stan Labovitch

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What would a Tory budget that is actually good for the country look like? Here’s an idea

Public investment, tax justice, carbon pricing, uprated benefits – the possibilities are endless, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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To those who sneer at activists blocking roads: what are you doing to save the planet?

Blocking traffic and glueing yourself to buildings gets attention – polite marches do not, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Nurses will be striking for their pay, your health – and the future of the NHS

There is nothing ‘militant’ about demanding less than what you were paid in 2010. The government needs to zip up and stump up, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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It may sound paradoxical, but Britain needs to spend its way out of recession

Cutting during a recession has been long discredited, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Rishi Sunak’s only been in office for a few days – and the errors are already piling up

The prime minister promised Britain a ‘new age of optimism’. On the evidence of his first week, the worst is yet to come, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Braverman’s return shows how deeply Sunak is in hock to the hard right

The new PM promised integrity and competence. Instead we got a dangerous dependency – which Labour can weaponise, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Rishi Sunak’s cuts will be more brutal than austerity. Remember: they are a choice, not a necessity

Can voters forgive the gutting of services already at breaking point, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Truss is gone. The Tory experiment is dying. Kill it off. Then don’t forgive and don’t forget

Truss and Kwarteng only extended the madness of Osborne and Cameron. And know hard years of repair lie ahead, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Before he slashes services even further, Hunt should look at the state of the UK

The last thing the country needs is another dose of austerity, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This mini-budget crisis feels like the death of the Conservative party

Liz Truss has reduced the Tories to a failed revolutionary faction staring into a £62bn black hole, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Tories fear and loathe the NHS, but they know they have gone too far this time

As 7 million people wait for treatment and nurses prepare to strike, the government desperately tries to deflect the blame, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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This is no time for Labour to get complacent

Letters: The Tories may look doomed now, but we shouldn’t write them off just yet, warn Bernie Evans and Martyn Taylor

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Has Liz Truss done enough to save herself? Our panel’s verdict

The prime minister addressed the Tory conference as leader for the first time. What are the chances that it could be her last?

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These Tories are heading for oblivion, and no amount of U-turns can change that

On everything from the 45p tax rate to immigration, Kwarteng and Truss are living in a different world to voters, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Why is Labour ignoring its own members on electoral reform?

Liberal-left coalitions are the only way to overturn the right’s unfair electoral advantage, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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How did Keir Starmer’s speech to the Labour conference go? Our panel’s verdict

The leader’s speech wasn’t short on policy. But will it be enough to revive Labour’s fortunes?

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Dozens hear case for British republic at Labour fringe event

Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee said at the event that she would have liked the Queen to be 'Elizabeth the last'

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Dozens hear case for British republic at ‘naughtiest’ Labour fringe event

Guests warned against a future with a ‘white privileged male’ as head of state until the end of the century.

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Who’s to blame for 12 years’ desecration of our NHS? Doctors, says Thérèse Coffey

Yet another new health secretary has arrived with all kinds of whizzo ideas, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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