A briefing from Gingerbread about the new rules that require lone parents whose youngest child is over 7 to look for paid work. Making this move at a time when childcare can be difficult to obtain and jobs are hard to find (especially those that are flexible enough to combine with having a child at primary school.)

Michael Winner's answer to the recession: “Here’s the best way to bring a smile to your face: spend, spend and spend again. You can’t afford it? You probably can. You’re just too mean or cautious to give it a go.”

The poorest areas that suffer the highest crime rates will be struck hardest by the government's cuts to police budgets, according to senior police figures.

Iain Duncan Smith says unemployed people in the valleys should get on the bus to Cardiff to look for work. PCS looked at just what jobs are actually available there: jobs that finish after the last bus back home, temporary work (much of it for very short periods), part-time work that would hardly cover travelling costs.

Mathematical proof that George Osborne is not doing a great job!