John Bird

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?
John Bird

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?

Many people experience homelessness as the result of inherited poverty. We can fix this, but we have to really want to

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations

The leading social investor reports significant growth in funds invested in 2024/25 as it celebrates 20 years since launch

Marmot principles should be applied to government departments for ending poverty
John Bird

Marmot principles should be applied to government departments for ending poverty

Marmot has shown that joined-up thinking works. It’s time to expand that idea

The only way forward is to split the poverty atom
John Bird

The only way forward is to split the poverty atom

How government inaction is radicalising Britain
John Bird

How government inaction is radicalising Britain

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The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership
John Bird

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership

Happy birthday, Big Issue. Our work continues
John Bird

Happy birthday, Big Issue. Our work continues

My hiatus from work led to some new ideas around poverty prevention
John Bird

My hiatus from work led to some new ideas around poverty prevention

England and Wales must follow Scotland’s lead and set legal targets to end child poverty
Poverty

England and Wales must follow Scotland’s lead and set legal targets to end child poverty

Labour rejects Big Issue founder’s bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets
Child poverty

Labour rejects Big Issue founder’s bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King’s birthday honours
King's birthday honours

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King’s birthday honours

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end
John Bird

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end

The pursuit of kindness seems to have been abandoned
John Bird

The pursuit of kindness seems to have been abandoned

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

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

The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient
John Bird

The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big Issue coming to Cardiff for next Big Community Roadshow
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Big Issue coming to Cardiff for next Big Community Roadshow

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

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

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

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

Social opportunity should take the place of social security 
John Bird

Social opportunity should take the place of social security 

There’s no defence for raiding the social security pot
John Bird

There’s no defence for raiding the social security pot