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Clegg's hidden agenda conned voters, Disability Now
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's commitment to reforming Disability Living Allowance was noticeably left out from the Lib Dem manifesto

Disability allowance exists for a reason, The Guardian Comment is Free
The disability living allowance is not an unemployment benefit. Why target it to 'reduce dependency and promote work'?

The trouble with freelancing, The Guardian Comment is Free
The Tories say being your own boss reaps great benefits. What they're not telling us is that it can also lose you them

Spare a thought for shop workers, The Guardian Comment is Free
Sunday trading laws should not change for Boxing Day 2010 sales - restricting the mayhem to six hours is no bad thing

Filesharers are simply freeloaders, The Guardian Weekly
If illegal downloaders had their way, people in the creative industries would be forced into doing boring jobs

Swine flu: it's worse than you think, The Guardian Comment is Free
Writing off swine flu as a 'mild cold' overhyped by a hysterical media blinds people to its potentially serious consequence

Sexist feminism, The Guardian Comment is Free
Stereotyping men and the women who choose to live with them won't help the quest for equality

Blaming the victim, The Guardian Comment is Free
The Directgov alcohol campaign peddles the old myth that if you're drunk and you're raped, you're responsible

Zero tolerance, The Guardian Comment is Free
Lives are destroyed by drink-driving. It's time the government took it much more seriously and properly enforced a zero limit

Socially acceptable?, The Guardian Comment is Free
The police's response to domestic violence remains shockingly inadequate and society's attitude compounds the problem

Debt's reckoning, The Guardian Comment is Free
People owing money deserve sympathy. But the banks aren't frogmarching people into shops: it's time to take some responsibility

Hypersomnia: my doctor thought I was on drugs, The Independent
For years, Anne Wollenberg struggled to wake up - and stay up. Now, after being diagnosed with a rare sleeping disorder, her drowsiness is finally under control

Experience: "I escaped from a death camp", The Guardian Weekend
"In December 1941, when I was 17, the Germans turned Losice, the Polish town where I lived with my parents and younger brother Israel, into a ghetto..."

Oral tradition, The Jerusalem Post
The powerful, gruesome story of Edi Weinstein, the last survivor of Treblinka II, is one he feels compelled to tell as long as he is able