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Greg Barradale
Greg is a Senior Reporter for the Big Issue. He reports on social affairs ranging from asylum and homelessness, to public transport and protests. He was a winner of the News and Investigations category at the MHP 30toWatch awards 2023, and was shortlisted for feature writer of the year at the 2023 BSME Talent Awards. If you've got a story which you think needs covering, email him at greg.barradale@bigissue.com
'A life changing moment': Inside England's Homeless World Cup training session ahead of the tournament of a lifetime
Homeless World Cup

'A life changing moment': Inside England's Homeless World Cup training session ahead of the tournament of a lifetime

Kneecap rapper Mo Chara's 'terrorism' charge: Is it about free speech, Palestine or something more?
Kneecap

Kneecap rapper Mo Chara's 'terrorism' charge: Is it about free speech, Palestine or something more?

Inside the mission to feed the UK's hungry kids in the holidays: 'If we had to buy food we wouldn't survive'
Holiday hunger

Inside the mission to feed the UK's hungry kids in the holidays: 'If we had to buy food we wouldn't survive'

Inside the Big Issue: Daniel Mays takes us behind The Thursday Murder Club
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Daniel Mays takes us behind The Thursday Murder Club

Premier League clubs strike new shirt sponsor deals with gambling firms despite looming ban
A composite of Premier League shirts for the 25/26 season including Sunderland, Crystal Palace, Everton, Nottingham Forest, and Aston Villa. Everton and England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford is also pictured
Football

Premier League clubs strike new shirt sponsor deals with gambling firms despite looming ban

Council drops bid to evict food bank from premises in child poverty hotspot: 'Our future is secure'
Food banks

Council drops bid to evict food bank from premises in child poverty hotspot: 'Our future is secure'

How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: 'They're not going to beat us'
Community

How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: 'They're not going to beat us'

Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way
Darren McGarvey
Health inequalities

Labour has promised to stop poor people dying so early. A Scottish rapper could help them find the way

Revealed: Why Greater Manchester Police refuses to give life-saving overdose drug to officers
A syringe of naloxone
Drugs

Revealed: Why Greater Manchester Police refuses to give life-saving overdose drug to officers

Manchester police 'encouraged' to give officers life-saving naloxone after Big Issue reporting
A police officer administers nasal naloxone.
Drugs

Manchester police 'encouraged' to give officers life-saving naloxone after Big Issue reporting

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn't go far enough, campaigners say
a tent on the street
Refugees

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn't go far enough, campaigners say

Pressure grows on police forces to reverse their refusal to equip officers with life-saving naloxone
police officer uses naloxone
Drugs

Pressure grows on police forces to reverse their refusal to equip officers with life-saving naloxone