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Starmer’s U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts ‘long overdue’ – but thousands could still miss out
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Winter fuel payment

Starmer’s U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts ‘long overdue’ – but thousands could still miss out

Keir Starmer has confirmed a U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts, but charities warn that more clarity is needed
Food banks urge Labour to rethink benefit cuts amid ‘heartbreaking’ surge in demand
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Food banks

Food banks urge Labour to rethink benefit cuts amid ‘heartbreaking’ surge in demand

A tribute to George Wendt: Norm, Cheers and the human need to connect
George Wendt as Norm in sitcom Cheers
TV

A tribute to George Wendt: Norm, Cheers and the human need to connect

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From legendary rock to the raves of tomorrow: This is the ultimate guide to 2025’s best music festivals
Festival guide 2025

From legendary rock to the raves of tomorrow: This is the ultimate guide to 2025’s best music festivals

Britain has enough money to fix our problems. We just lack the political will to share it
Nadia Whittome MP

Britain has enough money to fix our problems. We just lack the political will to share it

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Inside the Big Issue: The rise and fall of Black Lives Matter
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The rise and fall of Black Lives Matter

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension
Letters

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension

Meet the new Big Issue ambassadors helping to end poverty once and for all: ‘We’re in a fight’
Big Issue Ambassadors

Meet the new Big Issue ambassadors helping to end poverty once and for all: ‘We’re in a fight’

Helô! Come and see us at our Big Community Roadshow in Cardiff
Former vendor Mark Richards sells the Big Issue on Queen's Street back in 2022, before his sad death in 2024. Image: Big Issue
Big Community

Helô! Come and see us at our Big Community Roadshow in Cardiff

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How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?
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Homelessness

How can I help homeless people during a UK heatwave?

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the Easter holidays
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Cost of living crisis

33 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the Easter holidays

Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?
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Cost of living crisis

Energy bills are rising this April. What do I do if I can’t afford to pay?

Water bills are going up in April 2025. Here’s what to do if you’re struggling to pay
Cost of living crisis

Water bills are going up in April 2025. Here’s what to do if you’re struggling to pay

Meet our vendors

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Budgee, Co-op, St James’s Street, Brighton
Budgee

Budgee, Co-op, St James’s Street, Brighton

Robyn Woof, Middle Meadow Walk, Edinburgh

Robyn Woof, Middle Meadow Walk, Edinburgh

Clive, Theatre Royal, Plymouth

Clive, Theatre Royal, Plymouth

Kelvin Gregory, Somerset House, Central London, and Lordship Lane, Dulwich

Kelvin Gregory, Somerset House, Central London, and Lordship Lane, Dulwich

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Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption
Letters

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption

Meet the ex-Big Issue vendor who went from homelessness to giving Prince William a tour of Aberdeen
Prince WIlliam is given a tour of Aberdeen by former Big Issue vendor Angus
Homelessness

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

Meet the new Big Issue ambassadors helping to end poverty once and for all: ‘We’re in a fight’
Big Issue Ambassadors

Meet the new Big Issue ambassadors helping to end poverty once and for all: ‘We’re in a fight’

Inside the Big Issue: Michael Sheen’s great debt battle
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Michael Sheen’s great debt battle

Opinion

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Britain has enough money to fix our problems. We just lack the political will to share it
Nadia Whittome MP

Britain has enough money to fix our problems. We just lack the political will to share it

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

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

We need to change the way we talk about benefits if we’re ever going to rebuild trust in the system
Lucy Bannister

We need to change the way we talk about benefits if we’re ever going to rebuild trust in the system

Westminster beware – Wales is watching
Paul McNamee

Westminster beware – Wales is watching

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Culture

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A tribute to George Wendt: Norm, Cheers and the human need to connect
George Wendt as Norm in sitcom Cheers
TV

A tribute to George Wendt: Norm, Cheers and the human need to connect

In an era of individual aspiration, George Wendt as Norm in Cheers showed an alternative, richer path
From legendary rock to the raves of tomorrow: This is the ultimate guide to 2025’s best music festivals
Festival guide 2025

From legendary rock to the raves of tomorrow: This is the ultimate guide to 2025’s best music festivals

Bowie Odyssey 75 by Simon Goddard review – utterly riveting and beautifully written
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Bowie Odyssey 75 by Simon Goddard review – utterly riveting and beautifully written

Letter To My Younger Self

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Johnny Vaughan: ‘There’s not many who get out of jail and go on to become the highest-paid man on TV’
Letter to my younger self

Johnny Vaughan: ‘There’s not many who get out of jail and go on to become the highest-paid man on TV’

100-year-old WW2 heroine Dorothea: ‘As soon as the war finished we were told to go back to the kitchen’
letter to my younger self

100-year-old WW2 heroine Dorothea: ‘As soon as the war finished we were told to go back to the kitchen’

Tim Minchin: ‘I’d choose this career over a billion dollars 100 times over’
Letter To My Younger Self

Tim Minchin: ‘I’d choose this career over a billion dollars 100 times over’

Paula Radcliffe: ‘I thought I’d never get over the Olympics – but it’s just sport’
Letter To My Younger Self

Paula Radcliffe: ‘I thought I’d never get over the Olympics – but it’s just sport’

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The inside story of how Tony Blair’s New Labour all-but ended rough sleeping
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The inside story of how Tony Blair’s New Labour all-but ended rough sleeping

Should care experience be a protected characteristic? Care leavers speak out on status debate
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Children’s social care

Should care experience be a protected characteristic? Care leavers speak out on status debate

Domestic abuse soars by 38% when England lose. This Euros, we need change
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Teresa Parker

Domestic abuse soars by 38% when England lose. This Euros, we need change

Count Binface: ‘The British people will be watching you, Keir Starmer’
Count Binface

Count Binface: ‘The British people will be watching you, Keir Starmer’

Life

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Buy now, pay later? Understanding the new rules, the risks and how it all works
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Buy now, pay later

Buy now, pay later? Understanding the new rules, the risks and how it all works

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension
Letters

Letters: Pensioners like me are privileged to receive a triple-lock pension

Calls for a law change to protect survivors of domestic abuse left on the verge of financial ruin
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Domestic abuse

Calls for a law change to protect survivors of domestic abuse left on the verge of financial ruin

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption
Letters

Letters: Reform getting in will cause a lot of civil disruption

Inside The Big Issue

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Inside the Big Issue: The rise and fall of Black Lives Matter
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The rise and fall of Black Lives Matter

Big Issue Recruit to help jobseekers in South Wales secure green jobs on onshore wind farm
The site in the Welsh valleys where Twyn Hywel energy park is set to begin construction early next year
Big Issue Recruit

Big Issue Recruit to help jobseekers in South Wales secure green jobs on onshore wind farm

Inside the Big Issue: Summer of Music special
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Summer of Music special

Nearly half of Brits would struggle to pay for basic necessities in a month of losing income unexpectedly, new Big Issue YouGov poll reveals
Big Issue vendors Andre, Kelvin and George
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Nearly half of Brits would struggle to pay for basic necessities in a month of losing income unexpectedly, new Big Issue YouGov poll reveals

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