Monday's papers

The Guardian leads with the news that

British taxpayers are being left to plug a multibillion-pound hole in the public finances as hundreds of the country's biggest companies increasingly employ complex and secretive tax arrangements to limit the amount they hand over to the exchequer.

An investigation by the paper have revealed that

a series of sophisticated tax strategies which, critics say, amount to an almost unstoppable tide of perfectly legal corporate tax avoidance.

There is plenty of coverage on the wildcat strikes,the Telegraph says that Britain is facing the threat of a co-ordinated nationwide strike which could hit energy supplies later this week

The Times says that ministers were forced into an embarrassing U-turn yesterday after Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, suggested that the Government was preparing to bow to union demands to push for measures in Europe to protect British jobs.

It leads with a special investigation

Some of Whitehall’s biggest computer projects have spiralled out of control, with total cost overruns of more than £18 billion,

says the paper and adds

Plans for new computer systems are years behind schedule and have ballooned in cost; others have been scaled back or even scrapped. Yet companies continue to make hundreds of millions of pounds in profit, with £102.3 billion forecast to be spent on government IT projects over the next five years.

The Independent reports that rich men are rushing to get divorced as the worsening economic situation forces them to reassess their married lives.The paper adds that

Unprecedented numbers of men who have either been made redundant, or fear their jobs may go, are suddenly splitting from their partners because they know they will likely be asked to pay out smaller settlements if they are no longer earning big money.

The Mail reports the words of Jonathon Porritt who says that

Couples who have more than two children are putting an ‘irresponsible’ burden on the environment,and called on ministers to take action to reduce population growth in Britain, and criticised fellow green campaigners for ducking the ‘controversial’ issue.

Finally the Guardian reports on a new role for Carol Voordoman who is being tasked by the Tory party to make maths more cheerful and populist on the Countdown model, in the face of struggling standards in Britain's schools.