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Too many children with special educational needs are living in poverty. It’s a waste of public funds
Joanne Barker-Marsh

Too many children with special educational needs are living in poverty. It’s a waste of public funds

Joanne Barker Marsh is one of eight parents from Changing Realiities, a collaboration of parents on a low-income, who met with education secretary Bridget Philippson to discuss why action to support families on a low-income with SEND children is so urgently needed

Why the loss of terrestrial TV risks pushing millions of Brits to the margins
Elizabeth Anderson

Why the loss of terrestrial TV risks pushing millions of Brits to the margins

Access to terrestrial TV is important for social cohesion and tackling disinformation but the free-to-air service could disappear in 2034 and hit people on low incomes, writes Digital Poverty Alliance’s Elizabeth Anderson

The gig economy and your finances: How to make it work for you
Gig economy

The gig economy and your finances: How to make it work for you

With more people working freelance or gig jobs, here’s how you can manage irregular income, budget and plan for the future while working outside traditional employment

Poorest Brits now worse off than poorest people in Slovenia, report finds – here’s why
Cost of living

Poorest Brits now worse off than poorest people in Slovenia, report finds – here’s why

Generation B is the movement using business as a force for good – and it’s growing
Chris Turner

Generation B is the movement using business as a force for good – and it’s growing

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Inside the Big Issue: Michael Sheen’s great debt battle
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Michael Sheen’s great debt battle

Michael Sheen: ‘Going on holiday doesn’t matter to me as much as paying off 900 people’s debts’
Exclusive

Michael Sheen: ‘Going on holiday doesn’t matter to me as much as paying off 900 people’s debts’

There’s no evidence women are worse with money. So how do we tackle the growing gender debt gap?
Vikki Brownridge

There’s no evidence women are worse with money. So how do we tackle the growing gender debt gap?

Michael Sheen on writing off £1m of people’s debts: ‘Just stopping the bad guys is not enough’
TV

Michael Sheen on writing off £1m of people’s debts: ‘Just stopping the bad guys is not enough’

Pensioners ‘reduced to tears’ by ‘complex’ forms when applying for help from DWP
Department for Work and Pensions

Pensioners ‘reduced to tears’ by ‘complex’ forms when applying for help from DWP

Crisis-proofing your finances: How to prepare for the unexpected with an emergency fund
Emergency fund

Crisis-proofing your finances: How to prepare for the unexpected with an emergency fund

Labour reveals plan to ‘take everybody into a new digital era’: ‘It’s a difference between us and Tories’
Digital inclusion

Labour reveals plan to ‘take everybody into a new digital era’: ‘It’s a difference between us and Tories’

I went looking for incels – among all the hate and bile, I found some signs of hope
Incels

I went looking for incels – among all the hate and bile, I found some signs of hope

How ChatGPT and AI changed the conversation on universal basic income
Alison Hawdale

How ChatGPT and AI changed the conversation on universal basic income

More than 24 million Brits don’t earn enough for a ‘decent standard of living’, report finds
Cost of living

More than 24 million Brits don’t earn enough for a ‘decent standard of living’, report finds

Gaslighting the public: How the energy industry is profiting from our pain as bills are set to go up
Simon Francis

Gaslighting the public: How the energy industry is profiting from our pain as bills are set to go up

Why would billionaires end world hunger when they can buy the fountain of youth?
Paul McNamee

Why would billionaires end world hunger when they can buy the fountain of youth?

Here’s the glaring problem with the government’s approach to economic growth
Will Snell

Here’s the glaring problem with the government’s approach to economic growth

How do we stop AI becoming an ‘engine of inequality’, and make it a force for good?
Artificial intelligence

How do we stop AI becoming an ‘engine of inequality’, and make it a force for good?

Millions of young Brits have lost money to online scams – and it’s getting worse
Online scams

Millions of young Brits have lost money to online scams – and it’s getting worse

It’s been a decade since UK inflation fell to 0%. Here’s why that’s ‘actually quite a bad thing’
Inflation

It’s been a decade since UK inflation fell to 0%. Here’s why that’s ‘actually quite a bad thing’

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‘We get sick, Meta get rich’: Why the ‘guinea pig generation’ wants Labour to tax social media giants
Social Media

‘We get sick, Meta get rich’: Why the ‘guinea pig generation’ wants Labour to tax social media giants

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review – anatomy of a fake online life
Books

Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico review – anatomy of a fake online life

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte review – a darkly humorous examination of online lives
Books

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte review – a darkly humorous examination of online lives

DWP’s benefit fraud crackdown blasted as an ‘assault’ on the ‘disabled, sick and elderly’
Benefit fraud

DWP’s benefit fraud crackdown blasted as an ‘assault’ on the ‘disabled, sick and elderly’