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Diary of a food bank manager: 'This Christmas, we're far beyond the choice between eating or heating'
Earlsfield Food bank volunteers sort donations
Diary of a food bank manager

Diary of a food bank manager: 'This Christmas, we're far beyond the choice between eating or heating'

Lucid prose, raw accounts of grief and witty memoirs: The Big Issue critics' books of the year
Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s Quiet
Critics' choice

Lucid prose, raw accounts of grief and witty memoirs: The Big Issue critics' books of the year

Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord 'will not address the imbalance'
Social housing

Teaching social housing tenants how to complain to their landlord 'will not address the imbalance'

The NHS staffing crisis won't be fixed until it solves its problem with racism
Kate Osamor

The NHS staffing crisis won't be fixed until it solves its problem with racism

Count Binface's guide to 2022: A year of political bin fires
Count Binface
letter from Sigma IX

Count Binface's guide to 2022: A year of political bin fires

How O2 are helping to tackle data poverty by offering free data to those in need this Christmas
An illustration of a man looking at an iPad, talking to his Mum, surrounded by Christmas Trees, other computer windows show various uses for data/
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How O2 are helping to tackle data poverty by offering free data to those in need this Christmas

Shami Chakrabarti: The best new year’s resolution for 2023? Defend our human rights
Dominic Raab, International Human Rights Day
Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti: The best new year’s resolution for 2023? Defend our human rights

13 DIY tips to keep your energy bills low this winter
Energy bills

13 DIY tips to keep your energy bills low this winter

Top 5 books about trauma recovery, chosen by Lech Blaine
Trauma
recommended

Top 5 books about trauma recovery, chosen by Lech Blaine

Royal Mail strikes: When are postal workers going on strike over Christmas and why?
Royal Mail workers hold signs saying yes to strike action
Royal Mail strikes

Royal Mail strikes: When are postal workers going on strike over Christmas and why?

David Aguilar: Forget pity, I needed to change perceptions of disability
David Aguilar
from the author

David Aguilar: Forget pity, I needed to change perceptions of disability

I've spent Christmas in prison and on the street - finding recovery saved my life
Peter da Silva

I've spent Christmas in prison and on the street - finding recovery saved my life

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