{"id":14757,"date":"2012-03-23T09:26:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14757"},"modified":"2012-03-23T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:26:39","slug":"in-praise-of-polly-toynbee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/23\/in-praise-of-polly-toynbee\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of Polly Toynbee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Toynbee is willing to stick her neck out. That's why I admire her. I admire her motives. And courage.<\/p>\n<p>And of course she gets it wrong sometimes. We all do. Prediction is very, difficult, especially if it's about the future as Nils Bohr, the nobel physicist, once said.<\/p>\n<p>But she carries on, doggedly, determinedly, and\u00a0correctly,\u00a0because\u00a0she believes in justice.<\/p>\n<p>This mornings\u00a0Guardian\u00a0article is a great example of her getting things right. Please read it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/mar\/22\/budget-tory-blowhard-redwood-dreamer\" target=\"_blank\">She blows Osborne apart.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polly Toynbee is willing to stick her neck out. That&#8217;s why I admire her. I admire her motives. And courage. And of course she gets<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/03\/23\/in-praise-of-polly-toynbee\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}