Iain Duncan Smith will need the prime minister’s full support if his benefits plan is to succeed. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Benefit simplification is a no-brainer. It cannot make sense that it takes an army of welfare advisers and tens of thousands of pages of guidance and a great... 

Who will save us when the internet collapses? Photograph: Getty It sounds like a Fellowship of the Ring for the internet age – a carefully chosen alliance of technology warriors, safeguarding a mythical key that could one day shut down the internet. According to yesterday’s news reports,... 

David Cameron inspects a guard of honour at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images David Cameron today launched a strong defence of his attack on Islamabad in which he claimed that elements of the Pakistani state are responsible for exporting terrorism... 

Iain Duncan Smith has to convince a sceptical Treasury he can reduce fraud and error in an unwieldy tax credit system. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA Income support and housing benefit could be combined with the tax credit system as part of a range of proposals released tomorrow by Iain Duncan... 

AP Photo/David J. Phillip July 22: Jessica Zabala, left, and her fiance Jonathan Smith pin buttons on as they stand near “Lois”, a rare “corpse” flower blooming at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The couple is set to be married Saturday at the museum and hope the smell from the...