Natalie Bloomer

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• DWP wins legal case to block future benefit appeals

  Government wins legal case which could have major implications for people fighting the DWP.

• Week in review: The Yarl's Wood hunger strike the media ignored

  The treatment of vulnerable women should shame the government

• Daily Mail's migrant cleaners preparing to strike for better pay

  The cleaners are demanding the recommended London Living Wage

• DWP goes back to court to block future benefit appeals

  The case could have major implications for welfare appeals

• Chaos in Northamptonshire: Tory party infighting and a council on the verge of collapse

  While the Westminster bubble obsessed over Haringey this Tory council descended into chaos

• Week in review: Homelessness won't be solved by hiding it from sight

  Hounding rough sleepers out of city centres won't solve the problem

• Health select committee calls for immediate stop to NHS data sharing with the Home Office

  Chair of the committee urges NHS Digital to halt sharing of data

• The Haringey row is about so much more than Labour in-fighting

  This isn't a Momentum coup - it's social housing tenants fighting back

• Want to tackle loneliness? Stop closing libraries

  Libraries have taken up the slack of countless parental and elderly services - closing them closes communities.

• Week in review: A purge of white middle-aged men? If only

  This was no purge. Perhaps it would be better if it was.

• May's hypocrisy over Windsor homeless comments

  The government recently made a very similar argument to that of the Windsor councillor

• The man who wakes up at 4am every day to feed the homeless

  Stan Robertson was once homeless himself - now he feeds rough sleepers

• Labour councillors sign open letter urging party to change its Brexit position

  Seventy Labour councillors have signed the letter

• Snow on the ground and a pregnant woman at the door: Inside a homeless shelter at Christmas

  This centre in Northampton has seen more than 100 people in one day alone

• Government accused of complacency over rising homelessness

  Cross-party group of MPs slam the government's approach to homelessness

• DWP ordered to publish another set of secret Universal Credit docs

  The Information Commissioner's Office has ordered the department to release the papers

• Week in review: Lessons from Grenfell are yet to be learned

  Have attitudes towards social housing tenants really changed?

• Week in review: The deal is done but is it enough to save May?

  Even if the PM placates her Brexiteer backbenchers for now, there is still a long way to go

• PMQs: Corbyn's performance wasn't perfect but he now knows what works

  Corbyn may not be a great orator but he knows how to connect with people

• Week in review: George Osborne's journey from Scrooge to Santa

  Osborne's hungry children campaign is an extraordinary act of hypocrisy