UK facing 'recruitment crisis' with two job seekers for each vacancy
Increasing numbers are being impacted by redundancy during the Covid-19 pandemic. Image credit: Pxhere
Employment

UK facing 'recruitment crisis' with two job seekers for each vacancy

Fashion brands 'routinely' mislead the public over their green credentials
Most fast fashion brands are focusing their environmental efforts on making clothes from single-use plastic bottles instead of virgin polyester, but the researchers dubbed it a “false solution.
Environment

Fashion brands 'routinely' mislead the public over their green credentials

Is a universal basic income 'too expensive' for the UK?
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Employment

Is a universal basic income 'too expensive' for the UK?

The holiday’s over, but who are the stamp duty winners and losers?
Who did the stamp duty holiday really benefit?
Housing

The holiday’s over, but who are the stamp duty winners and losers?

Two-thirds of UK voters want more long-term thinking from politicians
Future generations
Politics

Two-thirds of UK voters want more long-term thinking from politicians

Services ending holiday hunger 'must be open to any child' who needs them
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Services ending holiday hunger 'must be open to any child' who needs them

'£50 million bill' for businesses as government's furlough scheme winds down
Government's furlough scheme coming to an end
Environment

'£50 million bill' for businesses as government's furlough scheme winds down

The black and white issue of climate suffering
Environment

The black and white issue of climate suffering

Scotland’s first Black academic on why we shouldn't remove offending statues
Social Justice

Scotland’s first Black academic on why we shouldn't remove offending statues

A sense of security is the key to thriving communities
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A sense of security is the key to thriving communities

What is the Right to Food?
The Right to Food campaign is taking action on soaring food bank use - a problem faced by Brits well before the pandemic.
Social Justice

What is the Right to Food?

Right to Food Day: Campaigners’ push for National Food Strategy inclusion
Rashford Right to Food
Activism

Right to Food Day: Campaigners’ push for National Food Strategy inclusion

Big Issue founder’s Future Generations Bill returns to the House of Lords
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Politics

Big Issue founder’s Future Generations Bill returns to the House of Lords

Climate Change Committee warns of 'gulf' between promises and action
Environment

Climate Change Committee warns of 'gulf' between promises and action

The Big Issue wins four industry awards for Covid response
Big Issue vendors Martin McKenzie
News

The Big Issue wins four industry awards for Covid response

Is the term ‘white privilege’ leaving working-class white kids neglected?
White privilege
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Is the term ‘white privilege’ leaving working-class white kids neglected?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
EU workers departing ‘will leave UK industries in total crisis’
Politics

EU workers departing ‘will leave UK industries in total crisis’

Work or child care? The summer holiday struggle facing parents
Social Justice

Work or child care? The summer holiday struggle facing parents

Government mocked for urging children to sing ‘Strong Britain, Great Nation’
One Britain One Nation campaign
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Government mocked for urging children to sing ‘Strong Britain, Great Nation’

EU citizens risk losing jobs and homes as July deadline looms
Those who are rough sleeping and homeless must be protected, the government have been told. Credit: Roger A Smith
Politics

EU citizens risk losing jobs and homes as July deadline looms