Greg Barradale
Greg Barradale
Greg is a Senior Reporter for the Big Issue. He reports on social affairs ranging from asylum and homelessness, to public transport and protests. He was a winner of the News and Investigations category at the MHP 30toWatch awards 2023, and was shortlisted for feature writer of the year at the 2023 BSME Talent Awards. If you've got a story which you think needs covering, email him at greg.barradale@bigissue.com
Rewilding is bringing creatures great and small back to UK – but a lack of funds is holding it back
Rewilding

Rewilding is bringing creatures great and small back to UK – but a lack of funds is holding it back

All of Keir Starmer’s U-turns and abandoned policy pledges, from child benefits to private schools
Labour

All of Keir Starmer’s U-turns and abandoned policy pledges, from child benefits to private schools

Starmer warned over glaring omission in Labour’s six general election pledges: ‘I’m disappointed’
Housing crisis

Starmer warned over glaring omission in Labour’s six general election pledges: ‘I’m disappointed’

Green Party leader Carla Denyer on climate crisis, fighting for trans rights and beating Labour
Politics

Green Party leader Carla Denyer on climate crisis, fighting for trans rights and beating Labour

How a band formed in an asylum hotel is giving refugees hope: ‘Each note comes from the heart’
Music

How a band formed in an asylum hotel is giving refugees hope: ‘Each note comes from the heart’

Can Keir Starmer really stop the boats? Labour warned immigration plan doesn’t go far enough
Immigration

Can Keir Starmer really stop the boats? Labour warned immigration plan doesn’t go far enough

Is ‘edgy upstart’ BrewDog now ‘boring and ubiquitous’ after years of scandal? Experts weigh in
Business

Is ‘edgy upstart’ BrewDog now ‘boring and ubiquitous’ after years of scandal? Experts weigh in

How London’s history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital: ‘They have a right to exist’
Environment

How London’s history-making beavers are adapting to life in the capital: ‘They have a right to exist’

Are we headed for a low-turnout general election? Why poverty and mistrust mean voters staying home
Politics

Are we headed for a low-turnout general election? Why poverty and mistrust mean voters staying home

Timpson boss James Timpson on Doc Martens, high street success and how work can turn lives around
Business

Timpson boss James Timpson on Doc Martens, high street success and how work can turn lives around

Feeling like change in the UK isn’t possible? Let these 28 purposeful campaigns prove otherwise
Activism

Feeling like change in the UK isn’t possible? Let these 28 purposeful campaigns prove otherwise

Reform came within 117 votes of Tories in Blackpool by-election. But it’s ‘far from an earthquake’
Politics

Reform came within 117 votes of Tories in Blackpool by-election. But it’s ‘far from an earthquake’