Isabella McRae, Author at Big Issue

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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

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Disability

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider

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Legacy benefits

‘We have to keep fighting’: Legacy benefits campaigners call for systemic change after court defeat

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Cost of living crisis

How to get the cold weather payment as UK temperatures drop below freezing

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Cost of living crisis

Pawnbrokers’ phones are ‘ringing off the walls’ in the cost of living crisis

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Legacy benefits

Legacy benefits claimants lose High Court appeal over pandemic payments

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Cost of living crisis

Student finance, discounts and budgeting tips for surviving university in a cost of living crisis

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Cost of living crisis

Tory MP slammed for claiming people can save money with Tesco weetabix and 10p worth of milk

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Cost of living crisis

Millions are going without heating or hot water because they can’t afford to top up their meter

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Cost of living crisis

The cost of living crisis is hitting everyone’s incomes… except the richest

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NHS crisis

‘My elderly mother was in an ambulance for 18 hours. But A&E was worse’: This is the desperate state of the NHS

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Loneliness

‘For people alone at Christmas, it offers a community’: The wonderful projects taking on loneliness

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Cost of living crisis

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider

‘We have to keep fighting’: Legacy benefits campaigners call for systemic change after court defeat

How to get the cold weather payment as UK temperatures drop below freezing

Pawnbrokers’ phones are ‘ringing off the walls’ in the cost of living crisis

Legacy benefits claimants lose High Court appeal over pandemic payments

Student finance, discounts and budgeting tips for surviving university in a cost of living crisis

Tory MP slammed for claiming people can save money with Tesco weetabix and 10p worth of milk

Millions are going without heating or hot water because they can’t afford to top up their meter

The cost of living crisis is hitting everyone’s incomes… except the richest

‘My elderly mother was in an ambulance for 18 hours. But A&E was worse’: This is the desperate state of the NHS

‘For people alone at Christmas, it offers a community’: The wonderful projects taking on loneliness

These ‘green doctors’ are not just saving people money on their energy bills. They are saving lives

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