10+ hour, 26+ min ago  (1011+ words) Let's start with the good news. People still believe politics can deliver change, they are still willing to vote Labour, and Andy Burnham has just proved it. The bad news? Keir Starmer proved exactly the same thing less than two…...

4+ day, 20+ min ago  (1024+ words) The UK government says it is about to draw "a line in the sand" over children's use of social media. Announcing plans for what ministers are calling an "Australia-plus" model, Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to ban under-16s from…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (477+ words) Two decades ago, European universities were entering an exciting chapter. For generations they had worked in isolation, drawing undergraduate students primarily from their own home population. But by the mid-2000s, with European cooperation well established and open borders across the European…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1038+ words) A series of fake, AI-generated advertisements running on X are using Nigel Farage's likeness to scam people online. The videos use deepfakes " AI-generated media digitally altered to convincingly manipulate a person's likeness or voice " of Nigel Farage and Bank of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (642+ words) As I write this, the facts are still emerging from a horrific knife attack in Belfast. Police have confirmed that a Sudanese man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a brutal assault that left another man seriously…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1118+ words) Nigel Farage has been accused of politicising the tragic death of Henry Nowak by claiming it is proof that Britain operates a "two-tier" policing system. The claim has sparked a major political row, with the Prime Minister calling Farage's response…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (408+ words) For years, such taxes have been treated as an obsession of the radical left " the sort of policy aired enthusiastically at fringe events before being dismissed by serious politicians. Yet in Hungary, P'ter Magyar, successor to long-serving populist Viktor Orb'n,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (678+ words) Birmingham is often seen to be the capital of heavy metal in the UK's rock history, but Stoke-on-Trent has been staking a claim too. Motorhead frontman Lemmy and guitarist Slash of Guns'N'Roses both hail from the Potteries and it is…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (912+ words) This week, two separate investigations by Hope Not Hate and Searchlight unearthed a slew of violent and misogynistic posts from Reform UK's candidate for the Makerfield byelection, Robert Kenyon. Among sexual remarks about high-profile women and connections with far-right characters…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (246+ words) After four years at The Lead, I'm stepping away from my role as National Editor. When we launched in 2022, we set out with a simple but ambitious aim: to tell the stories others weren't, and to do it with humanity…...