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The Lead Digest: Alliance Defending Freedom, ketamine and levelling up (finally)
Our round-up by The Lead’s team of what we’ve been reading, listening to, scrolling and watching each week.
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Ella Glover
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The colour of poverty: Black and brown children are at the sharp end of the crisis
Policies to tackle child poverty that don’t acknowledge the impact of race are simply not going to cut it.
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Natalie Morris
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We’re in an STI crisis. Once again, Black women are being left behind
The gonorrhoea vaccine should be a major breakthrough, but young Black women are being left out of sexual health policy – with devastating effects.
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Tabby Kibugi
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The Lead Untangles: The rise of the young NEETs
Despite some signs the jobs market is stabilising there's a generation at risk of being left behind. We explore those Not In Education, Employment or…
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Ella Glover
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The Lead Digest: Riyadh Comedy Festival and Shabana Mahmood
Our round-up by The Lead's team of what we've been reading, listening to, scrolling and watching each week
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Ella Glover
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Reform Watch: Crypto donations, council tax hikes and 'unconscionable' plans to close care homes
Each week we cast over eyes over what Reform have been up to - from proclamations to the detail of how their attempts to run councils are going.
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Ella Glover
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Reform Watch: Raising council tax in Kent and deputy leader in employment legal dispute
Each week we cast over eyes over what Reform have been up to - from proclamations to the detail of how their attempts to run councils are going.
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Ella Glover
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Reform Watch: National director Adam Bounds shared far-right content and female chief resigns in Wales
Each week we cast over eyes over what Reform UK have been up to - from proclamations to the detail of how their attempts to run councils are going.
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Ella Glover
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