Hannah Westwater
Hannah started writing for The Big Issue in 2018 before joining the team as staff reporter a year later.
Scurvy and malnutrition in the UK have doubled since 2010
A doctor listening to a child's back through a stethoscope. Poverty
Poverty

Scurvy and malnutrition in the UK have doubled since 2010

Why is the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on a hunger strike?
nazanin zaghari-ratcliffe husband, richard
Politics

Why is the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on a hunger strike?

‘A fish rots from the head down’: MPs hammer absent Boris Johnson in Owen Paterson scandal debate
Boris Johnson was absent from the owen paterson debate
Politics

‘A fish rots from the head down’: MPs hammer absent Boris Johnson in Owen Paterson scandal debate

Climate change is forcing more people out of their homes than war
young boy in Iraq displaced by climate change
Environment

Climate change is forcing more people out of their homes than war

What is conversion therapy?
conversion therapy
Social Justice

What is conversion therapy?

Nurses say levelling up is ‘lip service’ if lessons aren't learnt from Covid health inequalities
UK health inequality was reflected in Covid-19 death figures, when Bangladeshi men were five times as likely to die with the virus as their white counterparts.
Social Justice

Nurses say levelling up is ‘lip service’ if lessons aren't learnt from Covid health inequalities

Ministers ‘happy to spend millions on drones’ but ignore refugees in Budget
Rishi Sunak leaving No 10 Downing Street. Charities said he is doing too little for refugees
Politics

Ministers ‘happy to spend millions on drones’ but ignore refugees in Budget

‘It’s going to be a dark winter’: Universal credit claimants respond to the Budget
Universal credit claimants will keep 45p for every £1 they earn at work, starting in December.
Social Justice

‘It’s going to be a dark winter’: Universal credit claimants respond to the Budget

Sunak announces support for working universal credit claimants in Budget speech
Rishi Sunak, who is making universal credit changes, making an announcement with a union flag behind him
Politics

Sunak announces support for working universal credit claimants in Budget speech

Budget 2021: What to expect from Rishi Sunak's latest update on the UK's spending
rishi sunak
Politics

Budget 2021: What to expect from Rishi Sunak's latest update on the UK's spending

‘Do it for the children’: Families plead with Sunak to reverse universal credit cut
universal credit
Social Justice

‘Do it for the children’: Families plead with Sunak to reverse universal credit cut

‘They took away my future’: Teenager forced to quit college after universal credit cut
Universal credit
Social Justice

‘They took away my future’: Teenager forced to quit college after universal credit cut