53 posts tagged toynbee

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee

Sex and death I thought that would get your attention Jack the Ripper is coming to Docklands. To the Museum of Docklands, to be precise, with his very own exhibition. They tell me that: Although no one knows who he was, Jack the Ripper is probably the capital’s most infamous son, his story passing into legend, shaping the way London and the East End are imagined.

I posted earlier this week that senior Guardian political journalists Andrew Rawnsley and Polly Toynbee appeared to have given up on the Prime Minister as a man who can lead Labour to victory in the next General Election.  I said at the time that only Jackie Ashley of the paper’s prominent writers

Steve Weinik, Philadelphia’s Toynbee Tile expert, had this fantastic post on his blog last year about toynbee tiles appearing in Second Life. Despite my loathing for Second Life (even though I play World of Warcraft) this is still pretty awesome. Check out his post, and learn a bit more about it.

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The Power of the Commentariat. Or Perhaps Not: Blog Platform From the desk of MattWardman ·May 11, 2008 at 8:31 pm · Filed under All WW, Audio, Blog Platform, Columns, Internet / Technical, Media, News - Current Affairs, Online Media, Political Blogging, Review, Uncategorized A couple of days

David Davis From Guido:- Polly Toynbee hates the contradictory “barrage” of comments that follow her articles because she has an over-inflated view of the value of her analysis. Many of us only read her articles for the pleasure of seeing them torn to shreds in the comments that interactively follow.

This is brilliant.

I am an atheist. I am a firm believer that people should be allowed to worship however they want so long as they hurt no-one, including the weak of their own subculture, and that they should be afforded no special privileges by the state. In this I am in agreement with the British Humanist Association (BHA).

Dear Polly Toynbee, I almost fell off my chair this morning when I agreed with several consecutive paragraphs of your article in the Guardian today.  Like many other people with a brain, soul and conscience, I often find your leftist politics extremely hard to swallow.  However, you might be onto