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Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer
Employment

Revealed: DWP has lost more employment tribunals for disability discrimination than any other UK employer

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP payment dates in May 2025: When you will get your benefits this month

Unions are getting ‘more powerful’ as young, LGBTQ+ and disabled people eye up membership
unions

Unions are getting ‘more powerful’ as young, LGBTQ+ and disabled people eye up membership

Mum-of-two shares experience of ‘dehumanising’ DWP benefits system: ‘It could kill somebody’
Benefits

Mum-of-two shares experience of ‘dehumanising’ DWP benefits system: ‘It could kill somebody’

UK’s ‘cruel’ benefits system is ‘ruining lives’ and ‘violating human rights’, Amnesty report finds
Benefits

UK’s ‘cruel’ benefits system is ‘ruining lives’ and ‘violating human rights’, Amnesty report finds

LGBTQ+ inclusion doesn’t just benefit certain Brits – it helps all of us
Dominic Arnall

LGBTQ+ inclusion doesn’t just benefit certain Brits – it helps all of us

Migrant care worker left homeless after being ‘exploited’ UK employer: ‘It’s a national scandal’
Immigration

Migrant care worker left homeless after being ‘exploited’ UK employer: ‘It’s a national scandal’

Wardens get to work tidying e-scooters in Nottingham – with help from Big Issue Recruit
Big Issue Recruit

Wardens get to work tidying e-scooters in Nottingham – with help from Big Issue Recruit

Music in schools delivers an essential pathway out of poverty – here’s how
Polly Stepan

Music in schools delivers an essential pathway out of poverty – here’s how

We’re the first people modern slavery victims speak to when getting help. Their stories are shocking
Modern slavery

We’re the first people modern slavery victims speak to when getting help. Their stories are shocking

I was a migrant working in a warehouse. Then I got a role in a film about doing exactly that
Film

I was a migrant working in a warehouse. Then I got a role in a film about doing exactly that

Don’t justify spending cuts with ‘overinflated’ promises on AI, Labour told: ‘AI isn’t perfect’
Artificial Intelligence

Don’t justify spending cuts with ‘overinflated’ promises on AI, Labour told: ‘AI isn’t perfect’

Meet the ex-Big Issue vendor who went from homelessness to giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen
Homelessness

Meet the ex-Big Issue vendor who went from homelessness to giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen

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

Scottish whisky and salmon exporters brace for ‘significant hit’ from Trump’s tariff war
Tariffs

Scottish whisky and salmon exporters brace for ‘significant hit’ from Trump’s tariff war

This is how Donald Trump’s tariff war could affect your bin collection
Paul McNamee

This is how Donald Trump’s tariff war could affect your bin collection

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DWP urged to withdraw ‘dangerous’ and ‘inaccessible’ consultation into benefit cuts
Disability benefits

DWP urged to withdraw ‘dangerous’ and ‘inaccessible’ consultation into benefit cuts

Adolescence forced the country to sit up and take notice. But what’s next?
Matteo Bergamini

Adolescence forced the country to sit up and take notice. But what’s next?

British Steel could be nationalised. Here’s what that means for workers and the country
Steel

British Steel could be nationalised. Here’s what that means for workers and the country

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