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Inside the chocolate factory spreading sweet treats – and helping autistic people find work
Employment

Inside the chocolate factory spreading sweet treats – and helping autistic people find work

Letters: In 2026 can we start making sure those without family aren’t left behind?
Letters

Letters: In 2026 can we start making sure those without family aren’t left behind?

Choose joy this Christmas
Paul McNamee

Choose joy this Christmas

Inside the Big Issue: Our legendary Christmas special!
Christmas

Inside the Big Issue: Our legendary Christmas special!

How the CBeebies Christmas panto became like Oasis for six-year-olds
TV

How the CBeebies Christmas panto became like Oasis for six-year-olds

Nicola Sturgeon: ‘Scotland will definitely be independent much sooner than it feels right now’
Letter to my Younger Self

Nicola Sturgeon: ‘Scotland will definitely be independent much sooner than it feels right now’

Why I’m proud of myself for not buying a pair of corduroy trousers
Sam Delaney

Why I’m proud of myself for not buying a pair of corduroy trousers

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

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

How The Celebrity Traitors united Britain
TV

How The Celebrity Traitors united Britain

Dead Man Walking review – superbly dark opera, but light is around the corner
Opera

Dead Man Walking review – superbly dark opera, but light is around the corner

‘We’ve never seen anything quite like this before’: Inside the meteoric rise and rise of Labubus
Christmas

‘We’ve never seen anything quite like this before’: Inside the meteoric rise and rise of Labubus

My Christmas memories are good and bad – but Big Issue provided the most cheer
John Bird

My Christmas memories are good and bad – but Big Issue provided the most cheer

From rowdy forest animals to wig-loving goths: These are the best children’s books of 2025
Children's books of the year

From rowdy forest animals to wig-loving goths: These are the best children’s books of 2025

The Museum of Austerity exhibition brings home the human cost of benefit cuts – MPs need to see it
Austerity

The Museum of Austerity exhibition brings home the human cost of benefit cuts – MPs need to see it

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt author Michael Rosen: ‘Life is harder for kids now than it was in 1989’
Child poverty

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt author Michael Rosen: ‘Life is harder for kids now than it was in 1989’

Letters: I’m all for sorting immigration – but people’s evilness is beyond me
Letters

Letters: I’m all for sorting immigration – but people’s evilness is beyond me

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Inside the Big Issue: O Come All Ye Faithful
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: O Come All Ye Faithful

We humans love to anthropomorphise our stuff. There’s a good reason for that
Science

We humans love to anthropomorphise our stuff. There’s a good reason for that

Marie Kondo: ‘I didn’t think much about the opposite sex – I was completely absorbed in tidying’
Letter To My Younger Self

Marie Kondo: ‘I didn’t think much about the opposite sex – I was completely absorbed in tidying’

Top 5 books featuring animals, chosen by author and illustrator Andrea Cáceres 
Top 5

Top 5 books featuring animals, chosen by author and illustrator Andrea Cáceres