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Find out how many people in your area faced eviction during Covid
Rudy Bozart eviction
Evictions

Find out how many people in your area faced eviction during Covid

The homelessness charity hoping to serve 200 Christmas dinners in a train station
Christmas

The homelessness charity hoping to serve 200 Christmas dinners in a train station

'It feels like a never-ending conveyer belt': The people giving up on Christmas consumerism
Christmas

'It feels like a never-ending conveyer belt': The people giving up on Christmas consumerism

The Omicron variant could leave people out on the street this winter, charity warns
Omicron variant
Homelessness

The Omicron variant could leave people out on the street this winter, charity warns

'We’re starting to see the reality now’: Nearly 170,000 people are homeless in London
homelessness
Homelessness

'We’re starting to see the reality now’: Nearly 170,000 people are homeless in London

These are the big high street shops named and shamed for paying below the minimum wage
Minimum wage

These are the big high street shops named and shamed for paying below the minimum wage

One no-fault eviction every 32 minutes this winter unless evictions ban returns
evictions
Renting

One no-fault eviction every 32 minutes this winter unless evictions ban returns

‘They disgust me to the core’: Frontline workers react to the Downing Street Christmas party
Partygate

‘They disgust me to the core’: Frontline workers react to the Downing Street Christmas party

Here's how bad Covid was at the time of the alleged Downing Street Christmas party
Partygate

Here's how bad Covid was at the time of the alleged Downing Street Christmas party

Boris Johnson says 'stop playing politics' over Downing Street Christmas party
Partygate

Boris Johnson says 'stop playing politics' over Downing Street Christmas party

The Downing Street Christmas party explained: A timeline of the scandal
number 10, downing street party
Partygate

The Downing Street Christmas party explained: A timeline of the scandal

Grenfell, Lewis Hamilton and the Kingspan sponsorship row: What is it all about?
Grenfell Lewis Hamilton
Grenfell

Grenfell, Lewis Hamilton and the Kingspan sponsorship row: What is it all about?

Hospitality job vacancies ‘nosedive’ as Omicron causes Christmas party cancellations
Employment

Hospitality job vacancies ‘nosedive’ as Omicron causes Christmas party cancellations

How The Big Issue supported more than 180 other social enterprises during the pandemic
Wolverton Community Energy Stony. Stratford Library
Big Issue Invest

How The Big Issue supported more than 180 other social enterprises during the pandemic

Meet the community generating its own renewable electricity
Renewable enrergy

Meet the community generating its own renewable electricity

Ministers 'running scared' as video emerges of Downing Street staff laughing about Christmas party with country in lockdown
Partygate

Ministers 'running scared' as video emerges of Downing Street staff laughing about Christmas party with country in lockdown

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How Brexit and the food supply chain crisis might take a bite out of your Christmas dinner
Christmas

How Brexit and the food supply chain crisis might take a bite out of your Christmas dinner

Levelling up: Government delays plans to fix ‘worst regional inequalities in developed world’
boris johnson gives a levelling up speech
Levelling up

Levelling up: Government delays plans to fix ‘worst regional inequalities in developed world’

How you can resist the government's 'draconian' policing bill
kill the bill, policing bill
Activism

How you can resist the government's 'draconian' policing bill

These before and after photos show the power of a haircut for people experiencing homelessness
homelessness photos
Homelessness

These before and after photos show the power of a haircut for people experiencing homelessness