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a media service provided by New Statesman A digest of all today’s essential comment and opinion TODAY'S SUMMARY Osborne's cuts make the poor pay most 21 October 2010 David Cameron and George Osborne have gambled the UK's recovery in order to slash the state and make the poor pay most, says Johann Hari in the Independent. Meanwhile, on his Telegraph blog, Jeremy Warner suggests that the cuts aren't as bad as they could have been, expressly because Osborne has targeted welfare to balance the numbers. Over at the Guardian, Polly Toynbee warns that media stories of waste and welfare cheats will soon turn to the horror stories of cuts as the pain starts to hit. In the Financial Times, Martin Wolf writes that the spending review may be a great policy success or the biggest fiscal blunder since the early 1930s. Finally, in the Times, David Aaronovitch argues that is better to choose cheery intellectual curiosity over inward-looking pessimism on matters of immigration. CATEGORIES > UK Politics > International Politics > Economics & Business > Security & Defence > Environment > Science & Technology > Culture, Media & Sport > Health, Family & Society > Education > Human Rights, Law, Justice   If you would rather not receive this email, please unsubscribe from the list. CommentPlus is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. ©CommentPlus 2010. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a valued subscriber to New Statesman. Your email address has not been, and will not be, given to third parties.