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The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration
builders
Housebuilding

The uncomfortable answer to Labour's building problem might just be immigration

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits
dwp
Benefits

Warning after DWP reveals how it uses AI to make decisions on benefits

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled
Employment

Home Office visa delays leave thousands of migrants in limbo – and job vacancies unfilled

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?
Work

Can Skills England plug the UK's skills gap to give Labour the growth it craves?

What is a social enterprise?
social enterprise
Explained

What is a social enterprise?

Rough sleeping a 'source of national shame', government told
Big Issue founder Lord John Bird at a rough sleeping inquiry
Rough sleeping

Rough sleeping a 'source of national shame', government told

Most Brits don't realise you can be homeless without sleeping rough
homelessness
Homelessness

Most Brits don't realise you can be homeless without sleeping rough

Brits feel just as poor and miserable as they did last year. When will things get better?
Britain

Brits feel just as poor and miserable as they did last year. When will things get better?

More than 1.4 million homes with planning permission left unbuilt, report finds
houses in England
Housing

More than 1.4 million homes with planning permission left unbuilt, report finds

Where will the government build the 'next generation' of new towns?
Prime minister Keir Starmer in a hard hat on a building site
New towns

Where will the government build the 'next generation' of new towns?

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'
Simon from Chatham has faced a section 21 eviction
Renting

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'

Labour's new rules on small boat crossings leave campaigners 'appalled and disappointed'
Habib from Afghanistan explained that people are only crossing the Channel in small boats because they're desperate
Immigration

Labour's new rules on small boat crossings leave campaigners 'appalled and disappointed'

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen
Levi Roots cuts the ribbon to launch the INI Food and Wellbeing Centre. To his right is Sistah Stella Headley and to his left is Jean-Michel Grand, the chief executive of Action Against Hunger UK.
Food poverty

This is the 'most thoughtful and inspiring' food project celebrity chef Levi Roots has ever seen

'Love alone doesn't pay the bills': Kinship carers plea for financial support amid surging poverty
Kinship carers stage protest in Westminster to call for vital financial support
Kinship care

'Love alone doesn't pay the bills': Kinship carers plea for financial support amid surging poverty

Labour to crack down on rogue landlords claiming uncapped housing benefit for horror homes
housing secretary Angela Rayner
Housing benefit

Labour to crack down on rogue landlords claiming uncapped housing benefit for horror homes

This ice sculpture makes a powerful point about pensioners after winter fuel payment cut
Pensioner Rob Trewhella stands next to an ice sculpture in his image as a protest to cuts to winter fuel payments
Winter fuel payment

This ice sculpture makes a powerful point about pensioners after winter fuel payment cut

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Students call for Tripadvisor-style website to shame landlords over damp and mouldy homes
Photo shows Bristol student Livy Naylor's bathroom, which was plagued by mould issues over the last year
RENTING

Students call for Tripadvisor-style website to shame landlords over damp and mouldy homes

Family of toddler who died from damp and mould issue grave warning to Labour over new housing law
Rochdale toddler Awaab Ishak died due to damp and mould in his social housing flat
Social housing

Family of toddler who died from damp and mould issue grave warning to Labour over new housing law

How do we stop AI becoming an 'engine of inequality', and make it a force for good?
Artificial intelligence

How do we stop AI becoming an 'engine of inequality', and make it a force for good?

Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'
Police holding crowds back from the Home Office vehicle.
Immigration

Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'

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