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Nick Cave: ‘The worst happened. It maybe made me a little braver’
Music

Nick Cave: ‘The worst happened. It maybe made me a little braver’

This is what life with the DWP’s two-child benefit cap looks like through a child’s eyes
Two-child benefit cap

This is what life with the DWP’s two-child benefit cap looks like through a child’s eyes

‘Sport is transforming my life’: Inside the community gym keeping young people from a life of crime
Community

‘Sport is transforming my life’: Inside the community gym keeping young people from a life of crime

NatWest and British Gas join forces to turbocharge efforts to insulate draughty social homes
Environment

NatWest and British Gas join forces to turbocharge efforts to insulate draughty social homes

Majority of councils unable to help those in crisis after DWP’s support fund ends next month
Household support fund

Majority of councils unable to help those in crisis after DWP’s support fund ends next month

Behind the secret birth of London’s first baby beavers in 400 years – and what it means
Rewilding

Behind the secret birth of London’s first baby beavers in 400 years – and what it means

LGBTQ+ homelessness is a topic that’s deeply personal for me – it’s heartbreaking
Homelessness

LGBTQ+ homelessness is a topic that’s deeply personal for me – it’s heartbreaking

Three-quarters of Labour voters back a four-day working week: ‘Brits are burnt out’
Four-Day Working Week

Three-quarters of Labour voters back a four-day working week: ‘Brits are burnt out’

Is subletting illegal?
Renting

Is subletting illegal?

DWP cuts off benefits for 280,000 people over universal credit change: ‘This is extremely worrying’
Benefits

DWP cuts off benefits for 280,000 people over universal credit change: ‘This is extremely worrying’

Privately-educated athletes ‘significantly over-represented’ among Team GB’s Olympic heroes
Paris Olympics 2024

Privately-educated athletes ‘significantly over-represented’ among Team GB’s Olympic heroes

Rail company sparks outrage over ‘profiteering’ charge for water in London station: ‘Total disgrace’
Water

Rail company sparks outrage over ‘profiteering’ charge for water in London station: ‘Total disgrace’

Job market ‘cooling’ to pre-pandemic levels, experts say, as unemployment slowly falls
Employment

Job market ‘cooling’ to pre-pandemic levels, experts say, as unemployment slowly falls

Brazil wants to tax the world’s wealthiest 3,000 people. Here’s how that money could change the world
A Modest Proposal

Brazil wants to tax the world’s wealthiest 3,000 people. Here’s how that money could change the world

Millions of Brits made ill because their home is too hot, study finds – as UK faces heatwave
Heatwave

Millions of Brits made ill because their home is too hot, study finds – as UK faces heatwave

Suffering a brain injury forced me out of work and onto benefits – it’s a lonely thing to go through
Health

Suffering a brain injury forced me out of work and onto benefits – it’s a lonely thing to go through

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Adventurer Aldo Kane on how climate change has ravaged the natural world – and who’s to blame
Climate change

Adventurer Aldo Kane on how climate change has ravaged the natural world – and who’s to blame

How big-hearted communities came together to clean-up after senseless UK riots
UK riots

How big-hearted communities came together to clean-up after senseless UK riots

Here’s the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down
UK riots

Here’s the truth about asylum seeker hotels – as rioters try to burn them down

Big Issue vendors left feeling anxious, frightened and ‘scared to go out’ in wake of UK riots
Our vendors

Big Issue vendors left feeling anxious, frightened and ‘scared to go out’ in wake of UK riots