{"id":15273,"date":"2024-07-24T16:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/why-im-saving-my-hat-for-polly-toynbee-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T14:37:36","slug":"why-im-saving-my-hat-for-polly-toynbee-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/why-im-saving-my-hat-for-polly-toynbee-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m saving my hat for Polly Toynbee | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-child cap | Year-round holly berries | Palace costs | Old technology | Rubber band ball<\/p>\n<p>Polly Toynbee says she will eat her hat if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don\u2019t get rid of the two-child cap soon (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/keir-starmer-two-child-benefit-cap-new-labour-poverty-rachel-reeves\">Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty \u2013 I\u2019ll bet on it, 19 July<\/a>). As a grandad with less hair than he used to have, I have a number of tasteful hats. I\u2019ll be keeping the tastiest one for her. <br \/><strong>Paul Goetzee<\/strong><br \/><em>Liverpool<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dr Mark Wilcox (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/article\/2024\/jul\/22\/what-is-art-for-if-not-for-political-discourse\">Letters, 22 July<\/a>) thought Christmas had come early to West Yorkshire when he came across holly bushes covered in berries. Here in South Yorkshire, Christmas is all year long. My garden hollies always have berries. Holly trees love it on the limestone we sit on, and the males have plenty of females to cross-pollinate with, which produce the berries. <br \/><strong>Mike Eggenton <\/strong><br \/><em>Firbeck, South Yorkshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/why-im-saving-my-hat-for-polly-toynbee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bdeb95849d93dcb6f257dc50cb1eae285af6c907\/0_286_4715_2829\/master\/4715.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3406d19c55b53421f55f30c07d5a438e\" title=\"Why I\u2019m saving my hat for Polly Toynbee | Brief letters\" \/>Two-child cap | Year-round holly berries | Palace costs | Old technology | Rubber band ball<br \/>\nPolly Toynbee says she will eat her hat if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don\u2019t get rid of the two-child cap soon (Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty \u2013 I\u2019ll bet on it, 19 July). As a grandad with less hair than he used to have, I have a number of tasteful hats. I\u2019ll be keeping the tastiest one for her. Paul GoetzeeLiverpool<br \/>\n\u2022 Dr Mark Wilcox (Letters, 22 July) thought Christmas had come early to West Yorkshire when he came across holly bushes covered in berries. Here in South Yorkshire, Christmas is all year long. My garden hollies always have berries. Holly trees love it on the limestone we sit on, and the males have plenty of females to cross-pollinate with, which produce the berries. Mike Eggenton Firbeck, South Yorkshire Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-child cap | Year-round holly berries | Palace costs | Old technology | Rubber band ball Polly Toynbee says she will eat her hat if Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves don\u2019t get rid of the two-child cap soon (Starmer will bin the two-child benefit cap and outdo New Labour on tackling poverty \u2013 I\u2019ll bet &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/24\/why-im-saving-my-hat-for-polly-toynbee-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why I\u2019m saving my hat for Polly Toynbee | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}