Josh Halliday
joshhalliday.bsky.social
Josh Halliday
@joshhalliday.bsky.social
North of England editor, the Guardian. Dad. Paul Foot Award winner 2025.
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This is top-tier reporting from @paddyedrich.bsky.social into the disturbing world inside Southport killer Axel Rudakubana’s home and the terrifying signs of what was to come
Inside the Rudakubana house where parents let 'evil go unchecked'
SPECIAL REPORT: The ECHO lifts the lid on what life was like in the Rudakubana household after listening to every minute of the family's inquiry evidence
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November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Parents, multiple authorities, X and Amazon, loads of failures.

Not just more holes than a sieve, it was like a hole with bits of loose string over it.
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
After nine weeks of evidence and more than 100 witnesses, my big read on how the Southport atrocity could - and should - have been prevented:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Parental failure and gaps in the law: why the Southport atrocity was preventable
After nine weeks of inquiry evidence, a picture has emerged of systemic breakdown and poor information sharing
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Over nine weeks and more than 100 witnesses, the Southport inquiry heard in shocking detail how the atrocity was completely preventable.

Testimony from the families was the most harrowing and heartbreaking I’ve heard in 15 years of reporting.

Full story 👇

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Parental failure and gaps in the law: why the Southport atrocity was preventable
After nine weeks of inquiry evidence, a picture has emerged of systemic breakdown and poor information sharing
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Crumpsall is an amazing melting pot where so many cultures, classes and religions have lived peacefully alongside each other. That mustn't be forgotten amid the horror of the Heaton Park synagogue attack
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I didn’t realise how much I loved my home town until a terrorist attacked it. I pray unity prevails there | Simon Hattenstone
Last week’s attack on the synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, was also an assault on a model and diverse community, says Guardian features writer Simon Hattenstone
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October 7, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Do you have information that could lead to a story?

Email me - anna.isaac@theguardian.com, or (using a non-work phone) use Signal or WhatsApp to message +44 734 199 8403.

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November 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Excl: Neighbours of Manchester synagogue attacker say they reported concerns to police

- police were at the house earlier this year over safeguarding concerns, they say

- killer said to have suffered brain injury after cliff fall in his teens

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Neighbours of Manchester synagogue attacker say they reported concerns to police
Exclusive: Concerns about apparently fanatical interest in Islam shown by Jihad al-Shamie and another family member were reported, Guardian told
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October 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Huntington’s disease, my family, and hope at last. I spoke to my good friend ⁦‪@helenpidd.bsky.social‬⁩ for this podcast. Spoiler alert: one of us cried.

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My dad, his ‘incurable’ disease, and hope at last - podcast
Guardian’s Josh Halliday talks about Huntington’s disease, the impact it has had on his family and the hope there may now be a treatment
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October 6, 2025 at 7:02 AM
EXCL: Manchester synagogue terrorist was on police bail for alleged rape when he carried out Yom Kippur attack

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Manchester synagogue terrorist was on bail for alleged rape
Exclusive: Jihad al-Shamie had been due to appear in court over alleged sexual attack earlier this year, sources say
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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!

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September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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.

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“I’m very sore, very shaken, very emotional and I’m frightened to be honest.”

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Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally
Exclusive: Video shows veteran campaigner being dragged and handcuffed and she says bail conditions effectively confine her to her house
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July 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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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...
The Guardian announces new appointments
The Guardian has announced a number of appointments.
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July 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Three bosses at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked have been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.

More on @guardian soon.
July 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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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
💊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...
July 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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...
Britain in 2025: sick man of Europe battling untreated illness crisis
As poverty deepens across Britain, the Guardian visited some of the hardest-hit places where leaders are aiming to shift healthcare from hospitals to communities
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June 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
💊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...
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Let’s hope some good comes out of this horrifying death: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘It’s life and death’: parents of baby killed at nursery call for mandatory CCTV
Nursery worker would not have been convicted of Genevieve Meehan’s manslaughter without footage, parents say
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June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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.

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Carer’s allowance: woman who won case against DWP calls for end to ‘sickening harassment’
Nicola Green, 42, speaks out after significant legal victory against department that accused her of fraud UK politics live – latest updates
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June 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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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:
June 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This is such a powerful piece.
May 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This piece floored me and will stay with me for ages.
May 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM