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Hannah Westwater
Hannah started writing for The Big Issue in 2018 before joining the team as staff reporter a year later.
Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support
An aerial view of a woman packing food parcels at a food bank. Nearly half of people using food banks last year were in debt to the government
Social Justice

Majority of food bank users are disabled in 'abject failure' of state support

'Stop fossil fuels or get out our city': Spoof ads in Liverpool target bank
Activism

'Stop fossil fuels or get out our city': Spoof ads in Liverpool target bank

Queen’s speech: New laws pledged for the year ahead - and what was left out
The Queen
Politics

Queen’s speech: New laws pledged for the year ahead - and what was left out

Ministers commit £17m to help kids cope after year of ‘trauma and anxiety’
A young girl sits at her school desk staring down at her textbook and looking lonely. Mental health
Health

Ministers commit £17m to help kids cope after year of ‘trauma and anxiety’

These period poverty campaigners want to make you angry
The period poverty film is based on neurological evidence of anger as a driver for change.
Social Justice

These period poverty campaigners want to make you angry

‘I feel like a failure’: Universal credit parents face mental health nosedive
The rise in need for universal credit rose more sharply in already deprived areas during the pandemic than in better-off areas, researchers said.
Social Justice

‘I feel like a failure’: Universal credit parents face mental health nosedive

Put right to food in law to save people and planet, say researchers
Social Justice

Put right to food in law to save people and planet, say researchers

What time will UK election results be announced?
Every adult in England, Scotland and Wales can cast a vote today, making it the biggest vote outside a general election since 1973. election results
Politics

What time will UK election results be announced?

Barclays shareholders refuse to phase out fossil fuels
Demonstrators protesting Barclays' fossil fuels investment in 2017
Environment

Barclays shareholders refuse to phase out fossil fuels

HMS Prince Philip costs could cover free school meals for nearly three months
HMS Prince Philip would be successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, decommissioned in 1997 to cut costs.
Social Justice

HMS Prince Philip costs could cover free school meals for nearly three months

‘We're in the fight stage’: Why Kill the Bill action means hope for the UK
Protestors and police at a Kill the Bill march in central London, April 17
Activism

‘We're in the fight stage’: Why Kill the Bill action means hope for the UK

People on legacy benefits take discrimination case to High Court
universal credit
Social Justice

People on legacy benefits take discrimination case to High Court