Polly Toynbee

They’re all in it together

Ferdinand Mount is right to be shocked by the inequalities of modern British society; but his remedies are not brutal enough, says Polly Toynbee

  • The New Few, Or a Very British Oligarchy

    Ferdinand Mount

    Simon & Schuster, pp. 320

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