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.

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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.

Cutting sick pay for the unvaccinated sets a dangerous precedent

BY Polly Mackenzie / 2 mins

Westminster has a West Wing problem

BY Polly Mackenzie / 2 mins

Let Boris have a nap

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

How will you remember this year?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

What makes a great prime minister?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 6 mins

How Tories lost the plot over Priti

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Who’d work in Downing Street?

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Will Covid kill our toxic work addiction?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

Are special advisers just gossiping grifters?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Wales has never been a nation

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Why is a smoothie brand peddling fake news?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 2 mins

What if Magna Carta had died (in vain)?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

Don’t call the new Brexit bill ‘illegal’. It isn’t.

BY Polly Mackenzie / 2 mins

All this Covid confusion helps no one

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Simplicity is at the root of policy failures

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

A Covid death is not a good death

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

Can our mental health cope?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Can someone please cancel Joe Wicks?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 2 mins

Coronavirus will break down our social bonds

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

Children’s literature has lost the plot

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

What the Persians could teach Marie Kondo

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Why Boris should bring back conscription

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

It’s time to put MPs in uniform

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

The seven stages of Remainer grief

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

There is no mental illness epidemic

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

In praise of failed resolutions

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

How liars become leaders

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

How I learned the Tories weren’t evil

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Why Boris should be more 2012

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Boris Johnson has a woman problem

BY Polly Mackenzie / 2 mins

Eight ways to unite the nation

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Don’t fall for the Black Friday scam

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

What if we gave children a vote?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 3 mins

The abusive inhumanity of our politics

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Magna Carta proves the English aren’t exceptional

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

How I learned the Tories weren’t evil

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Our politics of impossible promises

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Why you can’t dress up a state school

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

How to end Westminster’s tribal warfare

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

The by-election that spells a general election

BY Polly Mackenzie / 3 mins

How ‘The Favourite’ failed Queen Anne

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

The most damaging thing about wealth

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Can Britain ever be united again?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 5 mins

The myth of meritocracy

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

How do you solve a problem like Theresa?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Time to scrap these toxic parties

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Is Harry Potter an apologist for neoliberalism?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Why ‘separate but equal’ is a fraud

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

The writer whose books simply have to be shared

BY Polly Mackenzie / 3 mins

How Advent became peak late capitalism

BY Polly Mackenzie / 3 mins

John Milton: smug liberal and free-speech warrior

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Why should a life without faith be without meaning?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Warehouse work needn’t be worthless

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

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

BY Polly Mackenzie / 4 mins

Who’s protecting the vulnerable from predatory markets?

BY Polly Mackenzie / 3 mins

Inheritance tax is a tax on laziness

BY Polly Mackenzie / 3 mins