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Isabella McRae
Isabella McRae is a senior reporter and feature writer at The Big Issue. She reports on a wide range of issues across social affairs and culture. Isabella was awarded Best News Story at the Anti-Slavery Day Awards in 2025. She was also a winner of the PPA Next Gen Awards in 2023, formerly known as the 30 under 30, and was shortlisted for journalist of the year in the Scope Disability Awards 2024. Get in touch with Isabella through isabella.mcrae@bigissue.com
John McAvoy was one of Britain's most wanted criminals. Now he's an athlete changing the lives of vulnerable young people
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Sport

John McAvoy was one of Britain's most wanted criminals. Now he's an athlete changing the lives of vulnerable young people

Here is what Jeremy Hunt's Spring Statement will mean for your bank balance
Jeremy Hunt/ Spring Statement
Cost of living crisis

Here is what Jeremy Hunt's Spring Statement will mean for your bank balance

This AI-generated cookbook has thousands of recipes to help you use up those reduced items
yellow stickers similar to those on reduced items in supermarkets fill the screen
Cost of living crisis

This AI-generated cookbook has thousands of recipes to help you use up those reduced items

This food bank with a DJ is helping London's homeless and vulnerable
food bank
Cost of living crisis

This food bank with a DJ is helping London's homeless and vulnerable

41,000 vulnerable households had their energy debt written off in Catalonia. Is the UK government listening?
energy debt spain
Cost of living crisis

41,000 vulnerable households had their energy debt written off in Catalonia. Is the UK government listening?

Is universal credit enough to live on? Here's why experts say the April increase is 'too little, too late'
universal ceedit/ inflation
Benefits

Is universal credit enough to live on? Here's why experts say the April increase is 'too little, too late'

What's it like living in rural Scotland during the cost of living crisis?
rural communities/ cost of living
Cost of living crisis

What's it like living in rural Scotland during the cost of living crisis?

Turnips and working more hours? Food bank workers say Thérèse Coffey is 'living on a different planet'
coffey/ cost of living/ turnips
Cost of living crisis

Turnips and working more hours? Food bank workers say Thérèse Coffey is 'living on a different planet'

One in five people in the UK's wealthiest areas can't afford food or pay their bills
cost of living crisis
Cost of living crisis

One in five people in the UK's wealthiest areas can't afford food or pay their bills

Are we doomed to repeat the cost of living crisis? This archive film shows how little has changed in the UK
cost of living archive film
Cost of living crisis

Are we doomed to repeat the cost of living crisis? This archive film shows how little has changed in the UK

'£3.3billion for them. Debt and starvation for me': Vulnerable customers on British Gas's record profits
British Gas
British Gas

'£3.3billion for them. Debt and starvation for me': Vulnerable customers on British Gas's record profits

Here's who is most likely to get help from the 'bank of mum and dad'
Inequality

Here's who is most likely to get help from the 'bank of mum and dad'