
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk
* Is welfare the new political divide?
* Three-quarters of incapacity benefit claimants are fit to work claims DWP.
* Alan Johnson needs to get angry, argues Matthew Norman.
* “Easy council” spends more than it saves in efficiency drive…
* London will be “as segregated as Paris” after cuts.
* A secret deal with the Swiss government could allow Brits to escape £40 billion in taxes.
* Osborne needs a plan B, says Simon Jenkins.
* And Gorbachev says that Putin is a block to Russian democracy.


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