The Lead Digest: The fracturing of Your Party and re-asserting anti-racist norms
Our round-up by The Lead's team of what we've been reading, listening to, scrolling and watching each week| national.thelead.uk
Our round-up by The Lead's team of what we've been reading, listening to, scrolling and watching each week| national.thelead.uk
An independent, proudly progressive publication committed to covering Britain beyond the Westminster bubble. Our journalism starts with people and place, and follows the thread to the policies that shape our lives. Click to read The Lead, by The Lead Editors, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| national.thelead.uk
There is no excuse to retain Osborne's performative cruelty. Even electorally, keeping it can only alienate any Tories who might yet vote Labour—and it makes no social, moral or economic sense either.| national.thelead.uk
While much focus is on the two-child benefit cap. We reveal how it is a cap on household benefits which is just as cruel.| national.thelead.uk
Plus: The latest from The Lead North team, Hannah Fearn on Farage's baby boom plans, our latest ReformWatch + The Lead Digest of good reads and listens| national.thelead.uk
No early years strategy is credible unless it tackles child poverty head-on.| national.thelead.uk
Plus: Tell us who you want to win in our poll, the latest from The Lead's northern titles, and everything our team is reading and listening to this week.| national.thelead.uk
Historian Paula Akpan on what's missing from the curriculum. Plus: The Black women of history erased from the record books + an exclusive extract of Akpan's groundbreaking debut book.| national.thelead.uk
Nigel Farage's plans for mass deportations are a test of our humanity.| national.thelead.uk
Broadcaster Jaydee Dyer shares “dehumanising” experiences of being repeatedly detained for no reason in new documentary film.| national.thelead.uk
No early years strategy is credible unless it tackles child poverty head-on.| national.thelead.uk
Black women’s stories are often erased or deliberately hidden, Nova Reid's new podcast urges you to get to know the pioneering Caribbean women who have shaped our culture.| national.thelead.uk
Parents warn of lasting trauma as local authorities facing financial meltdown withdraw support from children too unwell to attend school - report Sarah Woods and Lauren Crosby-Medlicott.| national.thelead.uk
Politics and culture with a campaigning heart, covering people, place and policy beyond the mainstream headlines. Click to read The Lead, by The Lead Editors, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| national.thelead.uk
Our editors share their top picks and favourite stories for you to enjoy this Easter weekend.| national.thelead.uk
Young people are stigmatised and written-off from an early age when labelled with a personality disorder – campaigners want to end these childhood diagnoses.| national.thelead.uk
Lauren Crosby Medlicott delves into the rise of homeschooling, unpacking the causes and what the impacts may be.| national.thelead.uk
Civil service job losses, no tax rises and more - what the Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced and what it all means, Zoë Grünewald takes you inside the Spring Statement| national.thelead.uk
As the Spring Statement showed further sweeping cuts, we ask why politicians are afraid to touch the regressive tax as it’s the most vulnerable who pay the price.| national.thelead.uk
The government's new delivery plan for ME doesn't include funding. Now we're fighting back to demand fairer funding.| national.thelead.uk
The Lead has found that there were almost 6,000 out of court settlements by the train operator for fare evasion charges in the last four years.| national.thelead.uk
Exclusive: Home-educated children have an increased chance of being unemployed or dropping out of education entirely, new research reveals.| national.thelead.uk
As health and legal systems continue to fail us as disabled people, this is how we resist— as our own examples of disabled justice, in support of one another, writes William Elisabeth Cuthbert| national.thelead.uk
The world may be a gloomy place, but optimism reigns in Preston at the Convention of the North| national.thelead.uk
Maggie Oliver, who turned whistle blower over the Rochdale grooming scandal, speaks to Susan Griffin for the first time since Home secretary Yvette Cooper's announcement of new inquiries| national.thelead.uk
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have acted quickly - and it's not clear if they have done so legally - over what they deem to be a waste of taxpayer money| national.thelead.uk
