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Keir Starmer exclusive: ‘There’s always that challenge of getting good news out there’

In an exclusive interview, prime minister Keir Starmer explains how Renters’ Rights Act will allow monumental changes to come into force – changes that Big Issue and other organisations have spent years campaigning to make happen

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Life lessons with Yungblud: ‘Social media is gonna fry your head. Have dinner with your mum instead’
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Read Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s new Christmas story, created especially for Big Issue
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Read Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s new Christmas story, created especially for Big Issue

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Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor celebrate Bohemian Rhapsody: ‘It really is Freddie’s master work’

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Celebrity Traitors star Nick Mohammed on the moment that shocked Britain: ‘I have no regrets’

12 huge artists have come together to support Big Issue. These are stories behind their art
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Hacker T Dog on joining Blue Peter: ‘I’m the dog embodiment of chaos!’

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Chris McCausland reveals why he almost turned down Strictly Come Dancing (again)
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Chris McCausland reveals why he almost turned down Strictly Come Dancing (again)

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Ben Whishaw on the ‘quiet political message’ running through Paddington: ‘I love it’

‘War is madness’: Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan on Britishness, trauma and new drama Blitz
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‘War is madness’: Steve McQueen and Saoirse Ronan on Britishness, trauma and new drama Blitz

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Sherwood creator James Graham on class, Gareth Southgate and Britain’s ‘f**kload of problems’

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How chicken factory musical Chuck Chuck Baby became a love letter to working-class women
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How chicken factory musical Chuck Chuck Baby became a love letter to working-class women

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Bradley Riches on Heartstopper, new musical Babies and how coming out helped him embrace his autism

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Rory Stewart: ‘The Conservative Party is being punished for Boris Johnson and Liz Truss’