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Polly Mackenzie

Polly Mackenzie is Director of Demos, a leading cross-party think tank. She served as Director of Policy to the Deputy Prime Minister from 2010-2015.

@pollymackenzie

Polly Mackenzie is Director of Demos, a leading cross-party think tank. She served as Director of Policy to the Deputy Prime Minister from 2010-2015.

Let Boris have a nap

Polly Mackenzie

21 Jan 2021

How will you remember this year?

Polly Mackenzie

24 Dec 2020

What makes a great prime minister?

Polly Mackenzie

11 Dec 2020

How Tories lost the plot over Priti

Polly Mackenzie

23 Nov 2020

Who’d work in Downing Street?

Polly Mackenzie

13 Nov 2020

Will Covid kill our toxic work addiction?

Polly Mackenzie

10 Nov 2020

Are special advisers just gossiping grifters?

Polly Mackenzie

27 Oct 2020

Wales has never been a nation

Polly Mackenzie

22 Oct 2020

What if Magna Carta had died (in vain)?

Polly Mackenzie

17 Sep 2020

All this Covid confusion helps no one

Polly Mackenzie

04 Sep 2020

Simplicity is at the root of policy failures

Polly Mackenzie

28 May 2020

A Covid death is not a good death

Polly Mackenzie

09 Apr 2020

Can our mental health cope?

Polly Mackenzie

26 Mar 2020

Coronavirus will break down our social bonds

Polly Mackenzie

11 Mar 2020

Children’s literature has lost the plot

Polly Mackenzie

02 Mar 2020

What the Persians could teach Marie Kondo

Polly Mackenzie

25 Feb 2020

Why Boris should bring back conscription

Polly Mackenzie

18 Feb 2020

It’s time to put MPs in uniform

Polly Mackenzie

07 Feb 2020

The seven stages of Remainer grief

Polly Mackenzie

31 Jan 2020

There is no mental illness epidemic

Polly Mackenzie

20 Jan 2020

In praise of failed resolutions

Polly Mackenzie

03 Jan 2020

How liars become leaders

Polly Mackenzie

27 Dec 2019

How I learned the Tories weren’t evil

Polly Mackenzie

23 Dec 2019

Why Boris should be more 2012

Polly Mackenzie

19 Dec 2019

Eight ways to unite the nation

Polly Mackenzie

16 Dec 2019

Don’t fall for the Black Friday scam

Polly Mackenzie

29 Nov 2019

What if we gave children a vote?

Polly Mackenzie

12 Nov 2019

The abusive inhumanity of our politics

Polly Mackenzie

01 Nov 2019

Magna Carta proves the English aren’t exceptional

Polly Mackenzie

31 Oct 2019

How I learned the Tories weren’t evil

Polly Mackenzie

25 Oct 2019

Our politics of impossible promises

Polly Mackenzie

01 Oct 2019

Why you can’t dress up a state school

Polly Mackenzie

16 Sep 2019

How to end Westminster’s tribal warfare

Polly Mackenzie

08 Aug 2019

The by-election that spells a general election

Polly Mackenzie

02 Aug 2019

How ‘The Favourite’ failed Queen Anne

Polly Mackenzie

17 Jul 2019

The most damaging thing about wealth

Polly Mackenzie

19 Jun 2019

Can Britain ever be united again?

Polly Mackenzie

15 May 2019

The myth of meritocracy

Polly Mackenzie

17 Apr 2019

How do you solve a problem like Theresa?

Polly Mackenzie

12 Apr 2019

Time to scrap these toxic parties

Polly Mackenzie

21 Mar 2019

Is Harry Potter an apologist for neoliberalism?

Polly Mackenzie

25 Jan 2019

Why ‘separate but equal’ is a fraud

Polly Mackenzie

15 Jan 2019

The writer whose books simply have to be shared

Polly Mackenzie

17 Dec 2018

How Advent became peak late capitalism

Polly Mackenzie

29 Nov 2018

John Milton: smug liberal and free-speech warrior

Polly Mackenzie

13 Sep 2018

Why should a life without faith be without meaning?

Polly Mackenzie

31 Jul 2018

Warehouse work needn’t be worthless

Polly Mackenzie

11 Jul 2018

More social housing is not the answer – it’s time to take on the home owners

Polly Mackenzie

18 Apr 2018

Who’s protecting the vulnerable from predatory markets?

Polly Mackenzie

20 Mar 2018

Inheritance tax is a tax on laziness

Polly Mackenzie

08 Feb 2018