Lottie Elton, Author at Big Issue

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Lottie Elton

Lottie Elton is a staff reporter at the Big Issue. She previously worked at Euronews, and as a health and state politics reporter at The West Australian Newspaper. In this role, she won “Best New Journalist - Runner Up” for a 2021 investigation into police misconduct.

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Mental health

Donald Trump, World War 3, climate crisis… Here’s how to process the news when it feels hopeless

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Eurovision

Eurovision star Olly Alexander says he’s ‘ambivalent’ about the ‘divisive’ Union Jack

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Train strikes

Aslef boss Mick Whelan on train strikes, hope with Labour and why Brits must reject ‘politics of envy’

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Environment

Shell just made £6.2bn in quarterly profit. Here’s how that money could be better spent

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Democracy

Would-be voters turned away from polling stations for not having ID: ‘This hurts our democracy’

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Marge starts a union and fights for workers’ rights in powerful new episode of The Simpsons

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Poverty

We must spend time on eradicating poverty – not trying to accommodate it, says Big Issue founder

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Statutory Sick Pay

I’m a cancer patient. I have to work from hospital during treatment or risk falling into poverty

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Crime

‘People need aid, not criminalisation’: Sadiq Khan’s comments on shoplifting nappies spark debate

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Lesbian Visibility Week

Lesbian Visibility Week: There’s ‘enormous power’ in being a lesbian – but stigma and shame persist

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Transport

Will Labour’s plan to renationalise rail really work? And will it make train tickets cheaper?

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Theatre