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• Trouble outside the Con-Dem castle walls, trouble within, as the cuts place strains on the relationship between civil servants and their management.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

David PurdyStirling• YouGov asked people before the election how they thought they would react to a Con-Dem coalition.

Letters: Choice, integrity and the Lib Dems 2011

And he is equally scathing about the Con-Dem housing policies.

Diary Hugh Muir 2010

• Are the cares of office, meanwhile, weighing on Huhne's Con-Dem colleague, Tim Loughton?

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

• War is hell, they say, and working for the Con-Dem government seems just as bad.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

This year's political upheaval is also reflected in the new tome, with Con-Dem, Con-Lib and Lib-Con all making the cut.

Simples! Aleksandr the Meerkat gives the dictionary his word Helen Pidd 2010

And yes, it is the case that the city missed out on much-needed jobs when Nick Clegg and his Con-Dem compadres cancelled the Labour government's loan to the giant firm Forgemasters.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

If this referendum is passed, the Con-Dem coalition will be immeasurably strengthened to pass its regressive public-sector reforms and the likelihood of a progressive left-leaning government will disappear for the foreseeable future as the Con-Dems will campaign on a joint platform, with tactical voting under AV, at the next election.

Letters: Partisan battles over electoral reform 2011

More fly-on-the-wall footage reaches us from Hastings jobcentre, where managers struggling to cope in the Con-Dem world have removed the toilet brushes from staff bathrooms – apparently on grounds of cost.

Diary Hugh Muir 2010

I would welcome some analysis of the relations between the Con-Dem government and the corporate lobbyists pawing the NHS.

Apple secretive about 'polluting and poisoning' supply chain, says report 2011