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Life is already hard for cancer patients. Don’t make it harder
Alex Hern covers the response from Macmillan cancer support to the government’s welfare reform bill, now in the House of Lords.
Will Tories and Lib Dems betray their own words as well as the NHS?
Alex Hern covers Baroness Thorton's proposed amendment to the NHS bill. Will Tories and Lib Dems betray their own words as well as the NHS?
IFS: Education spending will “shrink” at fastest rate “since at least the 1950s”
A new report today reveals education spending will be slashed by more than 13 per cent over this parliament - the largest cut since at least the fifties.
University applications down 9 per cent on 2011
Dan Ashley writes about the ongoing disaster that is the government's tuition fee policy; now, they are apparently surprised that applications have gone down.
Like arthritis, Lansley’s NHS bill is attacking the very thing it should protect
Jos Bell writes about the Andrew Lansley’s NHS bill’s failure to deal with complex long term conditions like rheumatoid arthritis in a coherent manner.
Wales calls for second u-turn on coastguard closures as Salmond hits out at Huhne
Carwyn Jones has urged the government to rethink plans to downgrade Wales’s busiest coastguard station in Swansea, while Alex Salmond has attacked Chris Huhne.