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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.
What happens when you give homeless people free money?
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Housing

What happens when you give homeless people free money?

Check out arty vendor John Cahill's masterpiece in Paddington Station
John Cahill Network Rail
News

Check out arty vendor John Cahill's masterpiece in Paddington Station

Fact/Fiction: Can parrots really teach each other to swear?
Fact Fiction 1430 Miles Cole
News

Fact/Fiction: Can parrots really teach each other to swear?

Martin Lewis hails ‘life-changing’ victory over 'thuggish' debt letters
Martin Lewis Flickr DECCgovuk Zoe Norfolk
Money

Martin Lewis hails ‘life-changing’ victory over 'thuggish' debt letters

Lords hear pleas for EU citizens to get physical proof of settled status
Politics

Lords hear pleas for EU citizens to get physical proof of settled status

Shelter eye £12.2bn social home rescue package to build out of Covid crisis
Housing

Shelter eye £12.2bn social home rescue package to build out of Covid crisis

Covid-19’s economic storm ‘blowing Scottish child poverty targets off course’
Social Justice

Covid-19’s economic storm ‘blowing Scottish child poverty targets off course’

Black people in UK 'three times as likely to experience homelessness’
Black homelessness Pixabay
Housing

Black people in UK 'three times as likely to experience homelessness’

Big Issue Invest's £3m backing to boost affordable housing in Glasgow
Housing

Big Issue Invest's £3m backing to boost affordable housing in Glasgow

‘Losing all of my work completely took away my coping mechanism’
Employment

‘Losing all of my work completely took away my coping mechanism’

Fact/Fiction: Does being unpopular at school mean future heart problems?
Fact Fiction 1429 Miles Cole
News

Fact/Fiction: Does being unpopular at school mean future heart problems?

Big Issue vendors’ stories at heart of 'poignant' new radio play
Unknown radio play
News

Big Issue vendors’ stories at heart of 'poignant' new radio play

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