Don’t pee in the lift
Stefan Collini: Keeping Up with the Toynbees, 6 June 2024
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
by Polly Toynbee.
Atlantic, 436 pp., £10.99, June,978 1 83895 837 4 Show More
by Polly Toynbee.
Atlantic, 436 pp., £10.99, June,
“... determined to hang on to their existing conviction about the peculiarity of the British in this matter, despite an accumulation of doubt-inducing counter-evidence. Some see the claim as further proof of the stultifying grip of a long-established class formation on so many areas of national life, while others delight in the easily comprehensible fretwork of ... ”