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'I was fined £100 for dropping crisps': How a private firm is making millions from littering fines
Tiny models of bin men cleaning up a giant cigarette butt
Environment

'I was fined £100 for dropping crisps': How a private firm is making millions from littering fines

Thousands of people in England live with undiagnosed HIV. Here's how we find them
Reception area in an NHS hospital
Richard Angell

Thousands of people in England live with undiagnosed HIV. Here's how we find them

COP28: Here's how a just transition from fossil fuels can save us
Protesters carrying banners against fossil fuels
Kim Goodall

COP28: Here's how a just transition from fossil fuels can save us

UK's food poverty crisis is spiralling out of control – and there's only one way to fix it
People queueing at a food bank
Sabine Goodwin

UK's food poverty crisis is spiralling out of control – and there's only one way to fix it

Vagrancy Act 2.0? The Criminal Justice Bill must not be allowed to make rough sleeping illegal
Layla Moran on Criminal Justice Bill, Vagrancy Act and rough sleeping
Layla Moran

Vagrancy Act 2.0? The Criminal Justice Bill must not be allowed to make rough sleeping illegal

Big Issue and giffgaff join forces to provide 250 vendors with refurbished phones
Illustration of two people engaging in a digital transaction. The foreground shows an enlarged smartphone displaying a successful contactless payment notification. In the background, one person wearing a Big Issue vendor's tabard holds magazines, gesturing in victory, while the other, carrying a backpack, uses their own phone, symbolizing connectivity and mobile commerce.
Advertorial

Big Issue and giffgaff join forces to provide 250 vendors with refurbished phones

The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova review – unsettling short stories of grimy austerity
The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova is out now (Atlantic Books, £14.99)
Books

The Coiled Serpent by Camilla Grudova review – unsettling short stories of grimy austerity

Harold Wilson's mistress-cum-secretary Marcia Williams was more trailblazer than troublemaker 
Illustration of Marcia Williams
Politics

Harold Wilson's mistress-cum-secretary Marcia Williams was more trailblazer than troublemaker 

Love Actually: Is it a Christmas classic or an unwatchable schmaltz-fest? 
Montage of stars of Love actually
Film

Love Actually: Is it a Christmas classic or an unwatchable schmaltz-fest? 

Top 5 young adult thrillers, selected by award-winning author Sarah Wishart
A young person in silhouette on a dark, misty road
Young Adult

Top 5 young adult thrillers, selected by award-winning author Sarah Wishart

Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah review – relentlessly anti-capitalist
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness by Nathalie Olah
Books

Bad Taste by Nathalie Olah review – relentlessly anti-capitalist

Jeremy Hunt's tax cuts are a 'wasted opportunity to support those who need it most'
Henry Parkes

Jeremy Hunt's tax cuts are a 'wasted opportunity to support those who need it most'