New economic plan faces protests on first day

Buried in the back garden: families priced out of decent burials

Soaring costs and coalition cuts lead to shocking rise in number of “do-it-yourself funerals”

Shrinking the state to death

Osborne’s target is not really the deficit at all, says Michael Meacher

Young people trapped on exploitative hours

Coalition partners trade blows over future austerity

Manchester protests at cuts to women’s services

Over one million now depend on foodbanks

Unison sounds alarm over council job-cutting plan

Dopey Osborne on the ropes

Paddy McGuffin takes a look at the Chancellor's Autumn Statement

Setting poor against poorer

When you’ve got no money, your horizons quickly narrow – and the government’s politics of envy sets us against each other, says Bernadette Horton