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Entrepreneurs’ Relief is a grift—and does nothing for Britain. Scrap it. | The Lead

Oct 25, 2024 | thelead.uk

Ignore a minority of self-serving voices. Rachel Reeves should abolish BADR - and use the money gained to remove the shameful two-child benefit cap.
Teesside should follow Middlesbrough in standing against anti-refugee laws

Apr 2, 2024 | thelead.uk | Daisy Steinhardt

Text A local councillor has urged other councils in Teesside to follow Middlesbrough in taking a stand against government anti-refugee laws. Matthew Storey, councillor for Middlesbrough Central and parliamentary office manager to MP Andy McDonald, told The Teesside Lead he has witnessed the negative impact of government hostility toward refugees and asylum seekers playing out in the local community.
The strange Royal arrangement that keeps Bibby Stockholm afloat

Mar 27, 2024 | thelead.uk | Daisy Steinhardt |Dimi Reider

Text Whenever you read about the Bibby Stockholm asylum barge, its location is given as Portland, Dorset. But the barge actually sits in the curious legal grey zone of crown land - and the chair of Portland Town Council is taking the government to court over mooring the barge in her town without bothering to ask the residents or local council. At the end of February, lawyers representing Parkes presented their arguments in an application for trial against Dorset council over the Bibby Stockholm.
WANTED: Senior Editor (maternity cover), The Lead

Mar 18, 2024 | thelead.uk | Dimi Reider

Text Location: London officePosition: Part-time, maternity cover, 6-month contract Salary: £45,000 to £50,000 per annum (pro-rated to £18,000 to £20,000 per annum for 2 days per week)The Lead is a growing UK politics and culture magazine with a team based out of London and Preston. The Lead is an issue-led start-up publication that focuses on pressing social topics facing the UK such as racism, equality, tackling poverty and climate change.
Dire conditions on traveller sites in Northern Ireland ignored by Stormont

Mar 2, 2024 | thelead.uk | Tommy Greene

Text Public sites for Irish Traveller communities in Northern Ireland are affected by recurrent and persistent sanitary issues including sewage and vermin problems, The Lead can reveal. The findings come after we used information access laws to ask the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) for details of environmental complaints from residents on formal, authorised sites.
From darkness to light

Dec 22, 2023 | thelead.uk | Dimi Reider

Text As twilight years of governments go, 2023 has been particularly bleak - darker even than the last years of Thatcherism, by some margin. Internationally, the ongoing Gaza war - which has claimed the lives of over 1,200 Israelis and over 20,000 Palestinians, over 1% of Gaza’s population - makes a bleak end to the year, together with its accompanying surges in hate crime further afield; from brutal attacks on Palestinian Americans to antisemitic assaults the world over.
״A child protection crisis”: The UK's shocking neglect of asylum-seeking kids

Dec 20, 2023 | thelead.uk | Dimi Reider

Text Small boats, Rwanda, the right to work, the Bibby Stockholm - the mismanagement of the UK’s asylum system has dominated the final months of the Tories’ last full year in power. But alongside these well-publicised crises, another is unfolding in plain sight - the wilful neglect and outright mistreatment of another, even more vulnerable population: children.
Bibby Stockholm: A needless death, foretold

Dec 14, 2023 | thelead.uk | Dimi Reider

Text The ample, desperate warnings about the government’s controversial ‘solution’ to tackle the migrant backlog by housing asylum seekers on a giant barge were tragically proved to be founded this week after a man was found dead aboard the vessel. The death is believed to be a suicide, which potentially speaks to the conditions on the Bibby Stockholm. Charities and campaigners have long warned that the barge is “cramped, unsafe and isolated”.
High net migration? Bring it on

Nov 22, 2023 | thelead.uk | Dimi Reider

Text This week it was announced that net migration hit the record-breaking high of 745,000 in 2022, according to revised figures from the Office for National Statistics. Initially, the figure for last year was 606,000 - already deemed a record high. But looking at the numbers again, taking into account “unexpected patterns” of migrant behaviour, the ONS says the actual figure was almost 140,000 higher than first thought.