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Johann Hari: A colder, crueller Britain

David Osler - Osborne isn't working

Telegraph - Roger Winnett 22/10/2010

Inside Housing - Isabel Hardman 22/20/2010

New Statesman - We've just jumped off a cliff

The Guardian - Jill Treanor, 21/10/2010

Reuters - Karolina Tagaris; editing by Matthew Jones, 22/10/2010

Liberal Conspiracy - DWP suggests Osbornes exaggerates benefit fraud

The Guardian - Vodaphone case leaves sour taste

National Audit Office report - 4th December 2009

BBC website - A review, disabled people dread cuts,, 23/10/2010

The Telegraph - Anna Bawden, 21/10/2010, Changes could see 1m lose out

NYTimes - Paul Krugman, Britains Fashion Victims

The Guardian - Alan Travis, 20/10/2010. Policing and criminal justice cut by 20%

The Guardian - William Keegan, 24/10/2010. This Chancellor may be the most dangerous.

The Telegraph - Patrick Hennessy, Rebecca Lefort, 23/10/2010. Ministers plan huge sell off of Britain's forests.

The Guardian - Ed Miliband, 24/10/2010. David Cameron wants a return to the days of Tory arrogance

The Guardian - Press Association, 24/10/2010. Nobel laureate says Osborne exaggerated debt crisis

The Guardian - Chris Grayling, 23/10/2010. Reforms give people chance to show what they're capable of

The Guardian - Charlie Brooker, 25/10/2010. Hail the face of the Coalition

The Guardian - Press Association, 25/10/2010. Job vacancy numbers make a mockery of IDS comment

BBC.co.uk - Charity warning on benefit change for single parents. 25/10/2010

Left Foot Forward - Nicola Smith, 25/10/2010. Cable is Wrong: Changes to Tax Credits will leave families worse off

Scope.org - 9/10/2010. Disabled people hit by £9bn of welfare cuts

BBC - 25/10/2010. Paul Rees, Housing Federation, on Housing Benefit cuts

Left Foot Forward - Will Straw, 6/10/2010. Cameron cuts back on truths

Liberal Conspiracy - Richard Exell, 24/05/2010. Why cutting the Future Jobs Fund is a travesty

The Guardian - Polly Toynbee, 25/10/2010. HB cut, rents up: this is Britain's Housing time bomb

Left Foot Forward - Shamik Das, 18/10/2010. Osborne, Mitchell and Hammond accused of tax avoidance

The Guardian - Douglas Alexander 26/10/2010. George Osborne's cynical welfare cuts.

The Independent - Johann Hari 29/10/2010. Protest works, look at the proof

BBCNews - 29/10/2010 Housing benefit bill will rise following 'reforms'

Politics.co.uk - 31/10/2010. Full extent of Housing Benefit cuts impact

New Statesman - George Eaton, 29/10/2010. New Housing headache for the coalition

Liberal Conspiracy - Sunny Hundal, 27/10/2010. Even Tories admit to London social cleansing

BBC - 2/11/2010. Spending cuts and VAT rise to cost 1.6m jobs

Unite - 3/11/2010. Britain sleepwalking into privatisation of NHS

Liberal Conspiracy - Sunny Hundal, 19/10/2010. Jon Cruddas speech

Women's Views on New - Suzie Grogan, 4/11/2010. Marriage solves all society's ills claims Minister

BBCNews - 3/11/2010. Students to face £9000 tuition fees

The Mirror - Bob Roberts, 6/11/2010. David Cameron cuts NHS funding by £500million

BBCNews - 6/11/2010. Benefit reforms could push thousands into poverty

New Statesman - Samira Shackle, 6/11/2010. David and Samantha Cameron's stylists on payroll

The Guardian - Tony Benn & 73 others, 4/08/2010. The time to organise resistance is now

Financial Times - Jim Pickard, 7/11/2010. The questions for IDS in his plan to give hard labour to workers

The Guardian - George Monbiot, 8/11/2010. Yes Britain's open for business - the sort that doesn't pay tax

The Journal, Blog Central - William Green, 4/11/2010. Minister admits many will lose out from Housing Benefit cuts

The Guardian - Randeep Ramesh & Andrew Sparrow, 8/11/2010. Housing benefit cuts will push poor out of the south

The Guardian - Helene Mulholland, 11/11/2010. Welfare cuts will lead to extreme hardship

The Guardian, Joe Public blog - Edward Lawrence, 11/11/2010. Welfare reform: What choice is there for those forced off benefits

The f word - Laura Woodhouse, 11/11/2010. Punishing the 'workshy'

The Guardian - Matthew Taylor and Adam Gabbatt, 12/11/2010. Trade Unions plan student coalition to fight spending cuts

The Morning Star - Andy Thompson, 12/11/2010. A lose/lose situation

The Independent - Johann Hari, 12/11/2010. Clegg - the man who betrayed us all.

The Telegraph - Rosa Prince, 11/11/2010. MP's expenses: the battle to ban secret restitution deals.

Herald Scotland - Bill Scott, 12/11/2010. Cuts fall on the shoulders of those least able to bear the burden

The Observer - Toby Helm, 14/11/2010. Cameron accused of using constitutional reform to rig parliament.

The Independent - PA, 11/11/2010. Tougher welfare sanctions spark destitution warnings.

Left Foot Forward - George Irvin, 13/11/2010. Expansionary fiscal contraction & the Emperors clothes

The Telegraph - MP's pocket rent paid for by taxpayer

The Independent - £1,000 asset limit for legal aid eligibility

BBC - 15/11/10. Legal aid reforms unveiled

Labourlist - Brian Barder, 14/10/2010. Coalition welfare policy: Back to the workhouse

The Guardian - Jill Treanor, 14/11/2010. George Osborne's plan to cut the levy on banks.

Liberal Conspiracy - NHS stealth privatises thousands of jobs

The Guardian - Jonathan Freedland, 16/11/2010. The cuts to legal aid are closing the law to all but those with money.

CityWire - Deborah Hyde, 22/01/2010. Tax evasion cost 15 times more than benefit fraud.

The Independent - Johann Hari, 15/01/2010. Cameronomics has been tired before, in Ireland - and the result?

Liberal Conspiracy - Ellie Mae, 18/11/2010. The real problem is Rupert Murdoch, not Coulson

The Guardian - Patrick Wintour and Allegra Stratton, 21/11/2010. Ed Miliband sets out 'profound' changes to the labour Party

BBCNews - 22/11/2010. Reforms won't chase people out of homes says Shapps

Daily Mirror - James Lyons, 23/11/2010. Punishing the poor: ConDem plans 'attack vulnerable'

BBC - 23/11/2010. Poorest could miss out on pupil premium says IPPR

BBC - 23/11/2010. Fitness to work benefit tests scrutinised

The Guardian - Randeep Ramesh, 23/11/2010. Incapacity benefit tests face overhaul after damning report

Law Society Gazette - Jonathan Rayner, 23/11/2010. Counting the cost of the Big Society

Labour Uncut - Sally Bercow, 25/11/2010. Osborne's regressive VAT bombshell is both mad and bad

Liberal Conspiracy - Adam Ramsay, 25/11/2010. Why the student protests are unlikely to backfire despite the coverage

Left Foot Forward - Dean Gaffney, 27/11/2010. IDS is doubly wrong on housing benefit and rent inflation

Liberal Conspiracy - Don Paskini, 30/11/2010. DWP admits cuts risk increasing homelessness

The Guardian - Randeep Ramesh, 30/11/2010. Housing benefit reforms should not go ahead, warn government advisers

Liberal Conspiracy - Ellie Mae, 30/11/2010. Worried about the NHS being privatised? You should be.

The Guardian - Anushka Asthana, 5/12/2010. Ministers accusing of burying 'damning' report.

BBCNews - 29/10/2010 - Guide to most costly benefits

The Guardian - Patrick Butler, 30/12/2010. Charity chief says cuts could destroys David Cameron's Big Society

The Guardian - William Brittain-Catlin, 28/12/2010. Creating an onshore nation is the only way to restore financial sovereignty

BBCNews - 30/12/2010. Ed Miliband says 2011 will be the year of consequences.

New Statesman - Samira Shackle & George Eaton, 29/12/2010. 2010 - the year in review

BBCNews - 22/12/2010. UK economic growth revised down

Guardian - George Monbiot, 27/12/2010. The cold claims lives while energy companies get rich

The Independent - Johann Hari - 24/12/2010. Austerity - a Year in review

Liberal Conspiracy - Sunny Hundal, 26/12/2010. Are the Tories losing opinion on public services?

Reuters - Peter Griffith, 25/12/2010. Archbishop of Canterbury - rich fail to share economic hardship

False Economy - Introducing a new economic comparator

The Guardian - Philip Inman, 29/12/2010. Unemployment forecast brings warning for George Osborne.

The Guardian - Riazat Butt, 30/12/2010. Faith groups will not fill gaps left by spending cuts, warns Anglican bishop

New Left Project - 30/12/2010. The Housing Crisis - Interview with Paul Burnham

New Statesman - George Eaton, 31/12/2010. Cameron is wrong, the spending cuts are ideological

The Guardian - Polly Toynbee, 31/12/2010. Face it if you dare. This is the end of the children's decade.

The Guardian - Peter Wilby, 31/12/2010. Private charity is never a substitute for public welfare

The Guardian - Anushka Asthana, 1/1/2011. Minister pledges an end to housing price rollercoaster

The Independent - Nina Lakhani, 2/1/2011. Lansley faces flak over yet another broken promise on healthcare

The Guardian - Rafael Behr, 2/1/2011. The coalition counts on blaming Labour for everything. Bad move.

The Guardian - Julia Kollewe, 2/1/2011. Retailers fear tough year as VAT goes up and spending cuts kink in

New Statesman - George Eaton, 2/1/2011. A winning message for Miliband?

The Guardian - Allegra Stratton & Julia Kollewe. Welfare bill soars as coalition counts cost of austerity drive

Cynical Journalist - 3/1/2011. Benefit checks to cost more than £100million per year

Community Care - Vern Pitt, 10/1/2011. Social care and benefits cuts to slash income for the disabled.

New Statesman - George Eaton, 10/1/2011. The coalition's cuts: the pain to come.

Left Foot Forward - Duncan Weldon, 10/1/2011. Clegg's latest lie: UK was on the verge of a sovereign crisis

A snail in my pocket blog - Blondepidge, 10/1/2011. Betrayal

BBCNews - 7/1/2011. Eric Pickles curbs councils empty home seizure powers

Passing Nightmare - Jonathan Davies, 11/1/2011. Austerity Politics and blaming Labour

Passing Nightmare - Jonathan Davie, 9/1/2011. An epidemic of Benefit Fraud? The demonisation of Welfare recipients

The New Statesman - Samira Shackle, 12/1/2011. Why more action is needed on cuts to disability benefits.

BBC - 12/1/2011. More tenants struggling to pay rent

Liberal Conspiracy - Don Paskini, 13/1/2011. Government admitscutting benefits won't help increase employment.

The Kings Fund - 25/10/2010. Impact of the Health White Paper - what doctors think

BBC - 16/1/2011. NHS confederation says health 'reform' could shut hospitals.

The Guardian - Denis Campbell & Toby Helm, 15/1/2011. Health chiefs issue stark warning over damaging effects of NHS reform

Though Cowards Flinch - 16/1/2011. Know your enemy (1) what private health insurers make of the NHS cuts

Sibley Rahman blog - 17/1/2011. David Cameron is wrong on the NHS coporate restructuring for these reasons...

The Guardian - Diane Abbott, 17/1/2011. NHS reforms: Cameron's dodgy prescription

The Guardian - 18/1/2011. David Cameron and the NHS: A reputation at risk.

Left Foot Forward - Michael Burke, 18/1/2011. Daily Mail deficit dunces

The Guardian - Patrick Wintour, 19/1/2011. NHS cuts: Scale of shake up took No 10 by surprise

BBCNews - Q & A: The NHS shake-up

The Guardian - Philip Inman, 20/1/2011. Housing benefit cuts will hit economic growth

Channel 4 News - 23/1/2011. NHS surgeon: Lansley reforms are a 'phony revolution'

Left Foot Forward - 22/1/2011. Balls vows to out "jobs and growth first"

New Statesman - Laurie Penny, 24/1/2011. The battle against benefit cuts and 'poverty pimps'

The Guardian - Randeep Ramesh, 25/1/2011. NHS shakeup will hurt poor and help rich

BBC - 25/1/2011. UK economy suffers 0.5% contraction

Liberal Conspiracy - 25/1/2011. How the Tories unleashed chaos in the NHS

New Statesman - George Eaton, 25/1/2011. Blow for Osborne as economy shrinks by 0.5%

Citywire - David Sandham, 27/1/2011. Tax fraud costs the UK £15 billion a year

BBC - 28/1/2011. The case for change in the NHS has been 'over sold'

The Telegraph - Martin Beckford, 28/1/2011. Patient care at risk under NHS reforms, experts warn

The Guardian - Denis Campbell & Toby Helm, 29/1/2011. Poll reveals widespread suspicion of NHS reforms

BBC - 30/1/2011. Andrew Lansley plays down the risks of his NHS changes

Parliament UK - Dominic Webb, 29/11/2010. Government borrowing, debt & interest rates: historical statistics and forecast

Dr Grumble blog - 26/1/2011. A letter to Dr Grumble from Prime Minister

Liberal COnspiracy - Guest, 31/1/2011. Is the NHS worse than healthcare in Europe as Cameron claims

Bright Green Scotland - Alasdair Thompson, 31/1/2011. Keep the NHS Public

The Guardian - Denis Campbell, 1/2/2011. NHS reforms are deeply unpopular

A Better NHS - 1/2/2011. Cameron's NHS myths

The Guardian - Neil Clark, 2/2/2011. Margaret Thatcher's extremism has already been outdone by this coalition

The Independent - Andy McSmith, 6/6/2004 - Letwin: NHS will not exist under Tories

BBC - 1/10/2006. Letwin in privatisation row

Liberal Conspiracy - Jon Stone, 7/2/2011. Five Tory 'cuts' that will actually cost us money

The Guardian - Helene Mulholland & agencies, 8/2/2011. IDS backs tax breaks for married couples

Left Foot Forward - Duncan Exley, 8/2/2011. Countering the the myths that bankers will leave if bonuses are reduced

Liberal Conspiracy - Sean Gittins, 9/2/2011. A basic guide to disability cuts, and why they should be oppose.