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
‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate
Assisted dying

‘This is a very difficult decision’: MPs vote to take forward assisted dying bill after emotional debate

Meet the tireless volunteers making sure children in poverty have a Christmas to remember
Christmas toy appeals

Meet the tireless volunteers making sure children in poverty have a Christmas to remember

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’
Benefits

Benefit claimants need enough money to buy food if Labour wants to ‘get Britain working again’

How to volunteer at a food bank
Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

Here’s how to donate to a food bank near you this winter
Food banks

Here’s how to donate to a food bank near you this winter

Labour warned against ‘scare tactics’ after revealing Jobcentres reform plan to ‘get Britain working’
Department for Work and Pensions

Labour warned against ‘scare tactics’ after revealing Jobcentres reform plan to ‘get Britain working’

Keir Starmer’s pledge on benefits ‘deepens stigma’ and leads to ‘fear and shame’
Benefits

Keir Starmer’s pledge on benefits ‘deepens stigma’ and leads to ‘fear and shame’

These children are going blind – so their parents gave them memories to last a lifetime
Film

These children are going blind – so their parents gave them memories to last a lifetime

Laura Mvula: ‘I don’t know if I’d be a singer without my family’
Music

Laura Mvula: ‘I don’t know if I’d be a singer without my family’

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: ‘It’s a tragedy people can’t afford their essentials’
Food banks

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: ‘It’s a tragedy people can’t afford their essentials’

‘This cannot go on’: Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
Food banks

‘This cannot go on’: Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time

‘It can’t stay like this’: Meet the North East families fighting child poverty by themselves
Big Community

‘It can’t stay like this’: Meet the North East families fighting child poverty by themselves