Impossibly high rent and debt is the reality for millions of young Britons, sucking away our youth

As pensions soak up ever larger sums, other areas of the budget face harsh cuts. Our specialist correspondents analyse the impact on some specific areas

The rich will not bear their fair share. Instead, yet another annual £10bn will be hacked off the benefits for the poor

The autumn statement falls on an inauspicious day – Cameron's halfway mark – and is likely to unleash yet more chaos

Roy Greenslade likes life in the 'digital pub' where everyone can be a journalist of sorts

‘The public knows what is going on here. ‘Most ordinary people believe that the real reason some members of the […]
As I traveled back from Berwick-upon-Tweed to Edinburgh this evening, Monday 3rd December, after visiting my parents for the weekend […]

Welfare claimants could be forced to work without pay and be stripped of benefits under scheme starting on Monday
THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2012 UK   The overarching Leveson inquiry lasted 16 months and took evidence from 474 people. But journalist Katharine […]
    11:29am Thursday 29th November 2012   By Lesley Tate, Senior Reporter  A disabled man with cancer and degenerative […]

I was one of the victims of phone hacking, and am disgusted that the PM has sided with the Fleet Street bullies

Seventy years ago Labour ushered in the welfare state. And the solidarity that fuelled it survives the worst the Tories do
Lord Justice Leveson wrote in his report: 2.61 Insight into issues of this sort was provided by Richard Desmond’s (Daily […]
  SATURDAY, 24 NOVEMBER 2012   Anti-Co-Op/Atos Contract picket outside the Co-Op Bank and the end of the picket at […]
  By Joan Walsh Taking a break from 24/7 politics after the election, I finally read John Kelly’s troubling  “The Graves […]
  Britain is at the extremes of the business of financial chicanery, giving London’s traders an unenviable reputation Editorial The […]
    Meanwhile, in the UK on Thursday 29 November 2012 1 / 349 One worker in 10 denied the chance […]
    Seventy years ago William Beveridge wrote a report that was to lay the foundations for the welfare state. […]
  Councillor Matheson must act to uphold Promise 74. The Commonwealth Games led by ‘Lord Rob’ (as Lord Kelvin likes […]
27 November 2012  Disabled protesters occupied the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games headquarters in an attempt to have IT firm Atos […]
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