Polly Toynbee (born Mary Louisa Toynbee on December 27 1946) is a journalist and writer in the United Kingdom, and has since 1998 been a highly influential columnist for "The Guardian" newspaper. Her columns are written from a social democratic viewpoint, and thus are closer to Labour than the other major British parties. She holds up social democratic Sweden as an exemplar. She was appointed President of the British Humanist Association in July 2007 Wikipedia
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Polly Toynbee was born in 1946 on the Isle of Wight. She read history at St Anne’s College, Oxford. She has pursued a journalistic career in both print and television. She became a Guardian political columnist in 1998 (her second stint for the paper) a www.psa.ac.uk/awards2003/toynbee.htm
