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John Bird

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The pursuit of kindness seems to have been abandoned

Once upon a time people were in the audience but now they all seem to be on the stage

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The UK’s political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough

It is the loss of belief in the effectiveness of government itself that registers most worryingly

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What our world leaders could learn from George Eliot’s Middlemarch

In Middlemarch, many of the characters suffer from ‘the debris of history’ – things haven’t changed

The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient

Labour’s poverty failure ‘risks driving voters to Reform UK’, warns Big Issue founder

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Big Issue YouGov GB poll finds more than two-thirds (68%) of Reform supporters want the government to do more to tackle poverty

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Lord John Bird demands Labour set child poverty reduction targets in Children’s Bill amendment

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I’ve written over a million words about poverty – here’s what I’ve learned

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The truth was just as hard to find in the old days as it is now

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Big Issue coming to Cardiff for next Big Community Roadshow

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Poverty policy needs a rethink. One day, we will replace the fish with fishing rods

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World War II made America great. Trump’s trade war could finally be its undoing

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Why working as a butcher’s boy made me feel like an earlier version of AI

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There’s no defence for raiding the social security pot

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This diagram shows exactly where the government is going wrong on poverty

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Jane Austen has become my shelter against a confusing world

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How Clement Attlee’s best intentions led to the problems we face today

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Paying off your landlord’s mortgage can’t be right in this day and age. There must be a cleverer way

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Big Issue founder tables bill for new government ministry dedicated to eradicating poverty

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The Story Hive: London’s new storytelling night is a chance for people to dream, imagine and enjoy

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Social media noise is quickening our slide towards fascism

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This time 60 years ago I was walking around in a Christmas card – what went wrong?

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Times have changed since Big Issue launched – and this is how we’ve moved with them

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It will take modern thinking to solve the age-old problem of rough sleeping

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Letters: Our US ‘special relationship’ could be dangerous if there’s a world war

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