Working on the go

Open thread: American companies are using activity monitoring gadgets to get their employees to exercise more. Would you wear one?

Middle classes must lose benefits

Andrew Haldenby: Our wasteful welfare system has decoupled work and reward. Help for the poorest should be handled at a local level

A revolution in care

Jackie Ashley: Conference season 09: Setting up a National Care Service would be equivalent to the creation of the NHS – now to tell the public what social care is