Amazing to be nominated for Society of Editors awards for mine and @patrickjbutler.bsky.social's work on Carer's Allowance. Congrats to all nominees! www.societyofeditors.org/events/media...

Huntington’s disease treated successfully for first time in gene therapy trial

This is so amazing! Anyone who knows how devastating this disease is (my dad has it) will know the feeling today. Huge congratulations to all the researchers and volunteers. Incredible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government considering compensation for victims of carer’s allowance scandal

“I’m very sore, very shaken, very emotional and I’m frightened to be honest.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Steve Coogan's not holding back: www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

It’s official - the north could not be in safer hands with @joshhalliday.bsky.social in charge. Defo recommend a midlife career pivot. www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/the...

Three bosses at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. More on @guardian soon.

This is a great piece, and by no means all bleak. One of the things it highlights for me is the difficulty of scaling up good ideas when the ideas’ attractiveness is so bound up with the commitment and talent of the first ones to carry them out

Fascinating piece on (another) unseen health timebomb, which also helps explain a lot about both pressures on A&E and arguably on sickness benefits www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget. My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Let’s hope some good comes out of this horrifying death: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Carer's Allowance latest: The mother of a teenager with cerebral palsy has demanded an end to the “sickening harassment” of unpaid carers after a significant legal victory against the government. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

In this era of media disruption and falling trust, it can become unfashionable to point out that good journalists and good journalism are a thing. Great piece by @arusbridger.bsky.social, through the lens of the work done by the great Duncan Campbell:

This is such a powerful piece.

This piece floored me and will stay with me for ages.

Fantastic long read by @patrickjbutler.bsky.social and @joshhalliday.bsky.social on the #CarersAllowanceOverpayment Scandal If you know nothing about this scandal , or what to know more - this is the article to read ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

We're delighted to see Patrick Butler and @joshhalliday.bsky.social‬ honoured and recognised for the contribution these @theguardian.com journalists made to uncovering and sharing the Carer's Allowance scandal. #paulfootawards #carersallowance #socialcare

It was amazing to even make the shortlist for this award so to win it is incredibly humbling. All thanks to those brave enough to speak out about this injustice.

This is yet another example of why we need to see a complete reform of the current system to stop this devastating impact on unpaid carers. Thank you @joshhalliday.bsky.social and The Guardian for your consistent support in bringing awareness to this issue.

This is outrageous (as is this whole policy) Mother of autistic boy left with £10,000 debt after breaching DWP carer's allowance rules by £1.92 a week www.theguardian.com/society/...

Latest on Carer’s Allowance scandal: the parents of an autistic teenager have been left with a £10,000 debt after breaching “inhumane” and “perverse” DWP rules by just £1.92 a week. 1/4 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Twenty years ago, Peter Lodge wrote to the Guardian to complain about the state’s treatment of family carers. In 2022, he died suddenly at the home he shared with his severely disabled son, David, who had no way to call for help. 1/5

Thrilled to be nominated for this with @patrickjbutler.bsky.social for our carer’s allowance work. Latest chapter in the scandal coming up this weekend!

A Reform official in Runcorn tells @joshhalliday.bsky.social: “Those planning to vote Reform roughly fall into two groups: ‘those who set their alarm for work in the morning and are angry at those who don’t – and those who don’t.” How will they satisfy both? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The first Observer overseen by Tortoise Media - and what a picture they got to kick it off.

@kaleighwatterson.bsky.social Hey Kaleigh! Please could you follow back so I can DM? Thanks a lot!

A rare victory for investigative journalism. Well done @patrickjbutler.bsky.social and @joshhalliday.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Absolutely horrific. A 16-year-old boy who fled war-torn Syria - where he was injured in a bombing - had only been living in Huddersfield for two weeks when he was fatally stabbed, his family tell ⁦‪@RobynVinter‬⁩. He only moved to Britain in October. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Some news! Huge congratulations to the peerless @helenpidd.bsky.social - and to our northern dynamo @hannahalothman.bsky.social who we now get to keep! 🥳🎉🎊

One of the saddest cases I've been in court for: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Love this, by our confused would-be class warrior Danny Lavelle www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Powerful piece by @joshhalliday.bsky.social (and one with extra force in the light of the Pip cuts): "Nobody found him in time": how neglect and stress led to the deaths of a full-time carer and his son www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

“If the government goes ahead with these cuts, new care homes will to have to be available.” I spoke to carers about the catastrophic impact of upcoming PIP cuts: when a disabled person loses their benefit, their loved one will lose Carer’s Allowance too. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘Nobody found him in time’: how state neglect and stress led to the deaths of a full-time carer and his son www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Twenty years ago, Peter Lodge wrote to the Guardian to complain about the state’s treatment of family carers. In 2022, he died suddenly at the home he shared with his severely disabled son, David, who had no way to call for help. 1/5

🗣️ Calling all aspiring journalists from working-class backgrounds! The Guardian is offering a paid two-week placement this summer in our London office. Deadline for applications is 30 March. More details here: workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/606/

Lucy Letby has called for the public inquiry into her crimes to be halted, arguing there was now “overwhelming and compelling” evidence undermining her baby murder convictions. Read letter sent to inquiry chair here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We have had three weeks in the first of our new temporary builds. KS1 and EYFS are smashing it out of the park with their behaviour and conduct. Now to try and catch up on that lost learning. Any advice on a recovery curriculum warmly welcome.

Do YOU like Laura Marling? Yes, you! If so, I’ve just put a ticket for her matinee show at Manchester Albert Hall THIS AFTERNOON on @Twickets for £40 - less than face value. It’s here: www.twickets.live/app/block/10... #LauraMarling

Thanks to @joshhalliday.bsky.social for reporting on our story. A change of environment to a hospital rather than your home doesn’t mean your caring responsibilities disappear, they actually increase. Carers allowance (& PIP) should not stop when in hospital, as we are still there, still caring

Delighted that from next week, I’ll be media editor for @theguardian.com. Huge questions wherever we look - changing consumption, online disruption, misinfo, the BBC’s future. And more than ever, so much power & politics at play. Can’t wait to start - get in touch, let’s talk! Contacts in bio.

NEW: Sacked minister Andrew Gwynne called a constituent a “an illiterate retard” and a fellow councillor a “fat middle aged useless thicket” in new WhatsApps revealed by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exclusive from @joshhalliday.bsky.social - Labour was told about ‘vile’ WhatsApp group more than a year ago, says councillor A second Labour MP, Oliver Ryan, has been suspended for his membership of the group

Axel Rudakubana's performance in court today was a final insult to the many victims. But as he was taken down to the court cells, one word emerged from the public gallery, following him as he went: “Coward.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Record numbers of children jailed many miles from their families More than one in 10 young people in custody are held at least 75 miles from their homes www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @joshhalliday.bsky.social & @journojess.bsky.social on @guardian

Excl: Crumbling state of school buildings is exposing pupils to “irreparable” harm, the UK’s children’s laureate has said, after a Guardian investigation revealed that more than 1.5 million students were being taught in dilapidated schools www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Excl: Crumbling state of school buildings is exposing pupils to “irreparable” harm, the UK’s children’s laureate has said, after a Guardian investigation revealed that more than 1.5 million students were being taught in dilapidated schools www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

I’m not often shocked any more but I was when I visited this “homeless” primary school in Cumbria. In the shadow of BAE Systems’ multi-billion-pound shipyard, Sacred Heart was evacuated urgently nearly two years ago due to its rotting floor. 1/5 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

@frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Hey Frank. Journalist at the Guardian here. Would you mind following back briefly so I can DM please? Thanks a lot! Josh