Polly Toynbee

@pollytoynbee · London, UK · joined 13 Dec 2010

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist, formerly BBC social affairs editor. Her latest book An Uneasy inheritance, my family and other radicals is out in June

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Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee30 Jul

Love's Labours Lost at Shakespeare's Globe opened last night, one of the best! Beautiful to look at, astounding dancing and great performances, none better than Norah Lopez-Holden, flamenco Princess. A delight on a hot summer's evening. 5.7K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee7 Jul

Salute Count Binface! https://t.co/lnuAYPQsHL 4K views · 19 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee3 Jul

@pollytoynbee https://t.co/Yf8XVJWM4j 20 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee2 Jul

IT’S ONE BIG CLUB! @pollytoynbee https://t.co/a2eci7N9V3

35.8K views · 950 likes · 186 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee15 Jun

@pollytoynbee https://t.co/3x8UnV2VrG 39 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee26 May

@pollytoynbee Suggest early retirement 36 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee26 May

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Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee26 Mar

Humanists UK called out the fable that christianity is quietly reviving in the UK: now YouGov and the Bible Society confess their error. As all evidence shows, the church continures its decline in all age groups. https://t.co/VzCCdJUFEX 4.8K views · 28 likes · 13 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee24 Jan

🚨ANDY BURNHAM COVERED UP GROOMING GANGS When FURIOUS families of victims in Oldham demanded a grooming gang inquiry Andy was one of the first to shut it down They SCREAMED at him from the gallery https://t.co/aTRjXRjqLn

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Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee23 Mar 2025

@pollytoynbee Now write a book on the 7 months of catastrophic austerity policies inflicted on the most vulnerable by Starmer, Reeves, Kendall and the Prime Minister Morgan 'I killed the left' McSweeney. https://t.co/9UMgUcBxVr

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Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee15 Mar 2025

@pollytoynbee Turns out your book was a big pile of shit as labour are worse than the Tory’s. More austerity no prosperity 83 views · 8 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee14 Mar 2025

@pollytoynbee You twerp 165 views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee10 Jun 2024

Political change is coming. But what will the new government inherit? Our new book explores what went wrong during the 14 years of Tory leadership, and what now must be remedied to take Britain from austerity to prosperity. Pre-order #TheOnlyWayIsUp today: https://t.co/1w3Yv47tjZ

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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What the audience does

Likes65.8%14 090 in total

Reposts32.2%6 887 in total

Replies1.9%408 in total

Bookmarks0.1%18 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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