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Here’s where to get help if you can’t afford to pay your energy bills in the cost of living crisis
Cost of living crisis

Here’s where to get help if you can’t afford to pay your energy bills in the cost of living crisis

‘We need protection’: How AI, algorithms and oppressive digital tech are pushing workers to the brink
Worker's rights

‘We need protection’: How AI, algorithms and oppressive digital tech are pushing workers to the brink

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to cost of living
Cost of living crisis

Food bank says people are turning to sex work and taking out dangerous loans due to cost of living

Food banks are helping hundreds of thousands of UK children to survive, data shows
Cost of living crisis

Food banks are helping hundreds of thousands of UK children to survive, data shows

How Suella Braverman’s callous tent crackdown has inspired people to tackle homelessness
Rough sleeping

How Suella Braverman’s callous tent crackdown has inspired people to tackle homelessness

King’s Speech shows government has ‘no plan’ to end rough sleeping or tackle long-term problems
King's Speech

King’s Speech shows government has ‘no plan’ to end rough sleeping or tackle long-term problems

Suella Braverman told tent crackdown will see people ‘dying on the streets’
Rough sleeping

Suella Braverman told tent crackdown will see people ‘dying on the streets’

Support Big Issue vendors this Christmas with our Winter Support Kit
Big Issue Christmas Campaign

Support Big Issue vendors this Christmas with our Winter Support Kit

Migrants may be forced into destitution as UK hikes visa renewal fees amid cost of living
Immigration

Migrants may be forced into destitution as UK hikes visa renewal fees amid cost of living

Neighbours band together to tackle energy bills and show how climate action starts at home
Climate crisis

Neighbours band together to tackle energy bills and show how climate action starts at home

Axed bus routes, congested trains and broken promises: Is Leeds the UK’s worst-connected city?
Transport

Axed bus routes, congested trains and broken promises: Is Leeds the UK’s worst-connected city?

These Right to Roam activists are fighting landlords to open up UK’s green spaces to all
the future of travel

These Right to Roam activists are fighting landlords to open up UK’s green spaces to all

Meet the Brits going without heating this winter as fuel poverty skyrockets: ‘I’m terrified’
Fuel poverty

Meet the Brits going without heating this winter as fuel poverty skyrockets: ‘I’m terrified’

Homelessness is never a lifestyle choice: Big Issue’s reaction to Suella Braverman comments
Homelessness

Homelessness is never a lifestyle choice: Big Issue’s reaction to Suella Braverman comments

Woke or anti-woke? Culture wars are poisoning society and politics, eye-opening study finds
Culture wars

Woke or anti-woke? Culture wars are poisoning society and politics, eye-opening study finds

‘We’re living in a nightmare’: Iraqi refugee family evicted into homelessness has lost ‘all sense of safety’ in UK
Special report

‘We’re living in a nightmare’: Iraqi refugee family evicted into homelessness has lost ‘all sense of safety’ in UK

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‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans
Veterans

‘Fireworks sound like war’: Ex-RAF member with PTSD warns of bonfire night’s impact on veterans

Care leavers find it much harder to get a job – but any company would be lucky to have us
Employment

Care leavers find it much harder to get a job – but any company would be lucky to have us

Councils plead with Jeremy Hunt for urgent cash boost to keep families off the streets
Homelessness

Councils plead with Jeremy Hunt for urgent cash boost to keep families off the streets

One in 10 councils face effective bankruptcy as cost of placing children in care soars
Local government

One in 10 councils face effective bankruptcy as cost of placing children in care soars