The Lead is a progressive UK publication focused on people and places beyond Westminster, with political analysis, a series on data centres and AI's resource use, and explainers on issues like Russian interference in the Brexit referendum. Readers get commentary on the UK budget pressures, climate and water concerns tied to AI, and fact-checked context on contested political claims.
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Data-driven explainers that put public policy numbers into context using charts and datasets, such as UK tax levers, pensions and the ages of world leaders. The author compiles her own data and shows how large each issue is relative to the whole.
A personal Substack mixing diary entries, restaurant writing and political commentary, including columns first published in LabourList. Readers get a witty, first-person view of British politics and daily life from an outsider's perspective.
Konstantin Kisin writes opinion essays on politics, culture and comedy, from a contrarian centre-right and horseshoe-theory perspective. Recent issues cover Trump's Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire, a Tucker Carlson and Jacob Rees-Mogg debate, and Andy Burnham and British economic policy.
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