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Liam Geraghty
Liam has written for The Big Issue since 2017, originally starting out as a Junior Writer/Sub-Editor before working up the ranks to become Senior Reporter in 2019 and Deputy Digital Editor (News) in 2023. That role sees him take charge of news and investigations relating to housing, homelessness and social issues. He also helps Big Issue vendors tell their story.
Homeless people are being ‘disproportionately criminalised’ by anti-social behaviour laws
homeless public spaces protection orders
Rough sleeping

Homeless people are being ‘disproportionately criminalised’ by anti-social behaviour laws

Will a stamp duty cut fix the housing crisis?
stamp duty
Stamp Duty

Will a stamp duty cut fix the housing crisis?

A Michelin star chef is opening a pop-up restaurant staffed entirely by homeless people
Chef Adam Simmonds is opening a restaurant staffed by homeless people
homelessness

A Michelin star chef is opening a pop-up restaurant staffed entirely by homeless people

Eviction ban needed to prevent rough sleeping 'catastrophe', government told
rough sleeper experiencing homelessness in London
Homelessness

Eviction ban needed to prevent rough sleeping 'catastrophe', government told

5 ways anti-homeless architecture is used to exclude people from public spaces
anti-homeless architecture
Homelessness

5 ways anti-homeless architecture is used to exclude people from public spaces

Fears homeless people will be moved out of Westminster ahead of the Queen's funeral
homeless London
Queen Elizabeth

Fears homeless people will be moved out of Westminster ahead of the Queen's funeral

A businessman who took in a Ukrainian family has launched a company to help refugees into work
Ukrainian refugee Maryna and host Oliver Tagg
Ukraine

A businessman who took in a Ukrainian family has launched a company to help refugees into work

The day Big Issue vendor Karl Grierson sold the magazine to King Charles
Karl Grierson Prince Charles 2000 John Stillwell PA
King Charles

The day Big Issue vendor Karl Grierson sold the magazine to King Charles

Big Issue vendor Will Herbert: ‘The day I saw the Queen made me proud to be British’
Will Herbert and John Bird
Queen Elizabeth

Big Issue vendor Will Herbert: ‘The day I saw the Queen made me proud to be British’

Big Issue vendors send their condolences to royal family on news of Queen's death
the queen
Queen Elizabeth

Big Issue vendors send their condolences to royal family on news of Queen's death

Liz Truss received £425,000 in personal donations during her Tory leadership bid
Liz Truss donations
Politics

Liz Truss received £425,000 in personal donations during her Tory leadership bid

Rough sleeping minister Eddie Hughes quits just days after publication of rough sleeping strategy
former rough sleeping minister Eddie Hughes
rough sleeping

Rough sleeping minister Eddie Hughes quits just days after publication of rough sleeping strategy

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