People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. Polly Toynbee choosedeathdie Change image and share on social
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. Polly Toynbee incapacityindignitypain Change image and share on social
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Polly Toynbee artculturehistory Change image and share on social
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. Polly Toynbee educationfaithgovernment Change image and share on social
Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability. Polly Toynbee influenceinstabilitylive Change image and share on social
In the polls, over 80% support the right to die and have done for the last 25 years. Even 80% of practising Catholics and Protestants support it, plus 76% of Church Times readers. Polly Toynbee catholicchurchdie Change image and share on social
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime. Polly Toynbee crimeeventuallyfamily Change image and share on social
Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless. Polly Toynbee badcrimedisaster Change image and share on social
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. Polly Toynbee accuratelyactivitybrain share on social
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. Polly Toynbee deathdiefear Change image and share on social
