Isabella McRae
Isabella McRae
Isabella McRae is a senior reporter at The Big Issue specialising in social justice. She reports on a wide range of issues including poverty and inequality, the benefits system, disability rights, housing, health, immigration, gender equality and much more. Isabella was a winner of the PPA Next Gen Awards in 2023, formerly known as the 30 under 30. She was shortlisted for journalist of the year in the Scope Disability Awards 2024. Get in touch with Isabella through isabella.mcrae@bigissue.com
Meet the people helping homeless women get vital smear tests: ‘You’ve got to hear their voices’
Women's health

Meet the people helping homeless women get vital smear tests: ‘You’ve got to hear their voices’

Disability benefits cuts would be ‘devastating’ and ‘increase absolute poverty’, Labour warned
Disability benefits

Disability benefits cuts would be ‘devastating’ and ‘increase absolute poverty’, Labour warned

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?
Cost of living crisis

Is the cost of living crisis over and will prices in the UK ever come down?

How to get school uniforms on a budget in 2025
School uniforms

How to get school uniforms on a budget in 2025

Can people actually self-diagnose with mental illness and claim disability benefits?
Benefits

Can people actually self-diagnose with mental illness and claim disability benefits?

‘Rushed implementation’ of AI in DWP benefits system could ‘harm’ people, experts fear
Department for Work and Pensions

‘Rushed implementation’ of AI in DWP benefits system could ‘harm’ people, experts fear

Retailers warn there’s ‘little hope of prices going anywhere but up’ – while they make huge profits
Cost of living crisis

Retailers warn there’s ‘little hope of prices going anywhere but up’ – while they make huge profits

‘I didn’t see a future’: Trans veteran forced to hide true self for decades under armed forces ‘gay ban’
LGBTQ+ veterans

‘I didn’t see a future’: Trans veteran forced to hide true self for decades under armed forces ‘gay ban’

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Disability benefit reforms and universal credit rise: All the DWP benefit changes to expect in 2025

Emmerdale star talks taking on a father’s agony in missing person story: ‘I hope it makes people think’
Emmerdale

Emmerdale star talks taking on a father’s agony in missing person story: ‘I hope it makes people think’

‘I have patients in pain waiting years’: Healthcare workers ‘cautious’ about Labour’s NHS plans
NHS

‘I have patients in pain waiting years’: Healthcare workers ‘cautious’ about Labour’s NHS plans

Energy bills expected to rise again in April – and it could be ‘soul destroying’ for struggling families
Energy bills

Energy bills expected to rise again in April – and it could be ‘soul destroying’ for struggling families