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Food is now the ultimate class signifier
Poor people are being fobbed off with food stamps while the rest of us watch cookery shows and eat fancy ready-meals

Suzanne Moore www.guardian.co.uk

‘Brick up your doors, knock down the walls’: Labour MP Frank Field makes dramatic call before 'bedroom tax' hits
The cut will reduce a claimant's housing benefit payments if their home is deemed under-occupied www.independent.co.uk

Millions Face Council Tax Hike Of £138 From April www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

In Michael Gove's world who needs teachers?
The education secretary's obsession with 'spellings, facts and rules' ignores the professional consensus on child development

Peter Wilby www.guardian.co.uk

Benefit cuts: Monday will be the day that defines this government
Those on low incomes, after all the vicious talk dismissing them as cheats and idlers, will be hit by an avalanche of cuts


Polly Toynbee www.guardian.co.uk

Bedroom tax is worthy of Stalin, says government's poverty tsar
Frank Field condemns change to housing benefit as 'flawed' and says scheme will eventually prove to be more expensive

Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent www.guardian.co.uk

Teachers stage ‘no confidence’ votes BBC

Post Office staff go on strike at Crown offices BBC

Teachers back strike action on pay
By Sean Coughlan in Liverpool and Angela Harrison in Bournemouth BBC

The £10,000 tax-free sop patronises the low-paid
The new income tax threshold will be presented as a no-strings-attached freebie, but it disenfranchises 3 million people


Lynsey Hanley www.guardian.co.uk

Exclusive: Key Cameron Tech Adviser To Quit
The driving force in Downing Street behind Tech City stands down in a blow to the Prime Minister. news.sky.com

Where's the real threat here – Kim Jong-un or Trident?
What we should fear is not the North Korean's bellicosity but how it's being used to subvert domestic politics in the west

Simon Jenkins www.guardian.co.uk

By Kevin Maguire Mirror
Kevin Maguire opinion Sulking Tony Blair should show Ed Miliband some of the loyalty he demanded

Only a jet-setting multi-millionaire earning a packet could suggest a Labour leader be “dispassionate” when a ConDem fatwa is ruining lives

MPs grill big six energy suppliers over tax contributions
Outrage over findings that RWE npower and others have paid little or no corporation tax despite significant profits
Terry Macalister and Fiona Harvey www.guardian.co.uk

George Osborne warned by MPs over mortgage guarantee risks BBC

Eric Pickles amends home extension plans

Homeowners wishing to build extensions would notify their council who would then inform neighbours BBC