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Sustainable Ventures: How Europe’s biggest climate tech hub is innovating to save the planet
Big Issue Invest

Sustainable Ventures: How Europe’s biggest climate tech hub is innovating to save the planet

Sustainable Ventures’ London HQ is Europe’s biggest climate tech hub, offering 160 green companies opportunities for peer support and investment

‘The UK’s national debt is total insanity. We need an expert to get us out of this mess’
Letters

‘The UK’s national debt is total insanity. We need an expert to get us out of this mess’

How can we have racked up debt repayments of £100 billion this year? A reader wants a new appointment to curb wasteful spending

Inside the lab where new homes are tested to see if they can stand the heat
Technology

Inside the lab where new homes are tested to see if they can stand the heat

The University of Salford’s Energy House 2.0 is the place where new homes are blasted with extreme heat and cold to see how they can deal with the changing climate. Big Issue went for a look around

The long, hot summer of 1976 changed Britain. What can we learn from it 50 years later?
Books

The long, hot summer of 1976 changed Britain. What can we learn from it 50 years later?

YouTuber JimmyTheGiant: ‘Forget right or left, it’s people who own things and people who don’t’
Politics

YouTuber JimmyTheGiant: ‘Forget right or left, it’s people who own things and people who don’t’

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Oobah Butler tackles the housing crisis: ‘We’ve become used to the fact that we are screwed’
TV

Oobah Butler tackles the housing crisis: ‘We’ve become used to the fact that we are screwed’

Inside the Big Issue: Skin in the game
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Skin in the game

Revealed: Homeless people face ‘postcode lottery’ of support leaving them at risk in heatwaves
Investigation

Revealed: Homeless people face ‘postcode lottery’ of support leaving them at risk in heatwaves

Heatwaves can be a unifying call to fight climate change but they are only widening UK inequality
Liam Geraghty

Heatwaves can be a unifying call to fight climate change but they are only widening UK inequality

‘Politics is the youth centre that keeps its doors open’
Dr Louisa Munch

‘Politics is the youth centre that keeps its doors open’

Hyphen: Why I sing punk songs about the wealth tax and economics in tiny shorts
Music

Hyphen: Why I sing punk songs about the wealth tax and economics in tiny shorts

How Love Island links to a universal basic income
Frankie McNamara

How Love Island links to a universal basic income

How conspiracy theories around JFK fueled the paranoia of US politics today
Books

How conspiracy theories around JFK fueled the paranoia of US politics today

‘I speak with millionaires on a daily basis, and they tell me that they want a wealth tax’
Rebecca Gowland

‘I speak with millionaires on a daily basis, and they tell me that they want a wealth tax’

Why I wrote an opera about Greta Thunberg
Environment

Why I wrote an opera about Greta Thunberg

Why Britain’s next prime minister must tax billionaire wealth now. Democracy is on the line
Gabriel Zucman

Why Britain’s next prime minister must tax billionaire wealth now. Democracy is on the line

YouTuber and economist Gary Stevenson: ‘If we don’t tax wealth we’ll return to the feudal age’
Gary Stevenson

YouTuber and economist Gary Stevenson: ‘If we don’t tax wealth we’ll return to the feudal age’

How a journey on the train suggests living in the real world is not for everyone
John Bird

How a journey on the train suggests living in the real world is not for everyone

The cost of bringing up a baby is rising. Parents need help
Finance

The cost of bringing up a baby is rising. Parents need help

Jinkx Monsoon: ‘Billionaires have no one to blame but themselves if they’re hated’
USA 250

Jinkx Monsoon: ‘Billionaires have no one to blame but themselves if they’re hated’

‘The EU stands for corruption, nepotism, illegality and waste. Why would we reverse Brexit?’
Letters

‘The EU stands for corruption, nepotism, illegality and waste. Why would we reverse Brexit?’

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How data is the gift that keeps giving for big business
Opinion

How data is the gift that keeps giving for big business

Sidemen’s Vikkstar: ‘We have a responsibility to our audience to act as positive role models’
Music

Sidemen’s Vikkstar: ‘We have a responsibility to our audience to act as positive role models’

How the Madman Theory links Trump and Nixon
America at 250

How the Madman Theory links Trump and Nixon

Podcasters, comics and cowboys: 25 Americans discuss the state of the USA on its 250th anniversary
America 250

Podcasters, comics and cowboys: 25 Americans discuss the state of the USA on its 250th anniversary