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What Keir Starmer can learn from Britain's first Labour government – 100 years ago
Labour government, 1924
Politics

What Keir Starmer can learn from Britain's first Labour government – 100 years ago

Anger over plan to axe data on people who die while homeless: 'Now is not the time'
homeless deaths
homelessness

Anger over plan to axe data on people who die while homeless: 'Now is not the time'

UK at risk of 'technical recession' despite GDP growth in November: 'This isn't a thriving economy'
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will be tasked with stopping the UK economy slipping into a technical recession
Economy

UK at risk of 'technical recession' despite GDP growth in November: 'This isn't a thriving economy'

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham: 'If you don't give people good homes they can't have good lives'
Housing

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham: 'If you don't give people good homes they can't have good lives'

'The trauma is absolutely huge': Refugee homelessness crisis grips Sheffield
Sheffield refugee
Refugee homelessness crisis

'The trauma is absolutely huge': Refugee homelessness crisis grips Sheffield

HS2 boss admits cost of railway could soar to £66.6bn. Here’s how that money could be better spent
Prime minister Boris Johnson in an orange high vis jacket and a HS2 helmet
A modest proposal

HS2 boss admits cost of railway could soar to £66.6bn. Here’s how that money could be better spent

How UK's two-child benefit cap is trapping kids in poverty and pushing families to 'breaking point'
child
Child poverty

How UK's two-child benefit cap is trapping kids in poverty and pushing families to 'breaking point'

30 hours free childcare: Who is eligible and how do I apply in 2024?
free childcare
Childcare

30 hours free childcare: Who is eligible and how do I apply in 2024?

Here's when people will get the cold weather payment as temperatures drop below freezing
cold weather payment/ snow picture
Cost of living crisis

Here's when people will get the cold weather payment as temperatures drop below freezing

Ethnic minorities are still paid less than white colleagues – and pay parity is long, long overdue
ethnicity pay gap/ two men interview
Ethnicity pay gap

Ethnic minorities are still paid less than white colleagues – and pay parity is long, long overdue

Tax-free childcare: How does it work, how much can you save and how can you apply?
tax-free childcare
Childcare

Tax-free childcare: How does it work, how much can you save and how can you apply?

Rishi Sunak claims he's going to cut taxes by tightening benefits. Here's why it'll backfire badly
rishi sunak
Benefits

Rishi Sunak claims he's going to cut taxes by tightening benefits. Here's why it'll backfire badly

Two-thirds of government's £4.2bn housebuilding fund remains unspent – so we spent it for them
Housing crisis

Two-thirds of government's £4.2bn housebuilding fund remains unspent – so we spent it for them

How to get help with childcare if you are on universal credit
Childcare

How to get help with childcare if you are on universal credit

Sophie Winkleman, Peep Show's Big Suze and royal actress, on lessons learned from Big Issue vendors
Our vendors

Sophie Winkleman, Peep Show's Big Suze and royal actress, on lessons learned from Big Issue vendors

Everything you need to know about UK's shameful Post Office scandal
Post Office scandal has seen some have their convictions overturned. Image credit: Sludge G / Flickr
Post Office scandal

Everything you need to know about UK's shameful Post Office scandal

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Anger as energy firms allowed to resume force-fitting prepayment meters: 'Cruel and dangerous'
elderly man
Energy bills

Anger as energy firms allowed to resume force-fitting prepayment meters: 'Cruel and dangerous'

All the pesky, woke scientists and experts against Rishi Sunak's catastrophic oil and gas bill
Rosebank
Climate crisis

All the pesky, woke scientists and experts against Rishi Sunak's catastrophic oil and gas bill

Why residents must, must, must have a say in the design of their communities
Architecture

Why residents must, must, must have a say in the design of their communities

Read prison letters of Just Stop Oil activists jailed for QE2 bridge protest: 'UK cannot imprison its way out of climate crisis'
Activism

Read prison letters of Just Stop Oil activists jailed for QE2 bridge protest: 'UK cannot imprison its way out of climate crisis'