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A Community Right to Buy is a first step to building a better Britain up from the streets
A billboard reading Community is Kindness
Joe Fortune

A Community Right to Buy is a first step to building a better Britain up from the streets

People want thriving local areas and UK politics has treated local areas as an afterthought. The new English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill is a step towards political system that actively seeks to build back community power, writes the Co-operative Party general secretary Joe Fortune
What Starmer could learn from watching The Bear
Paul McNamee

What Starmer could learn from watching The Bear

Why we need more migrants in political office
Yvette Cooper
Lara Parizotto

Why we need more migrants in political office

A year of Labour: How has the Starmer government fared in helping people out of debt?
Vikki Brownridge

A year of Labour: How has the Starmer government fared in helping people out of debt?

Labour should take a leaf out of Zohran Mamdani's book and give young people something to vote for
Banseka Kayembe

Labour should take a leaf out of Zohran Mamdani's book and give young people something to vote for

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?
a homeless person on the street
Matt Downie

Are we witnessing a turning point in how we tackle homelessness?

Copying Nigel Farage gives him a credibility he hasn't earned
Reform UK leader and Clacton candidate Nigel Farage
Renaud Foucart

Copying Nigel Farage gives him a credibility he hasn't earned

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end
John Bird

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end

Keir Starmer might not have 'rizz' – but maybe we should give him a chance
Sam Delaney

Keir Starmer might not have 'rizz' – but maybe we should give him a chance

Politicians need to recognise self-evident truths – or else we risk going deeper into poverty
Gavin Oldham

Politicians need to recognise self-evident truths – or else we risk going deeper into poverty

Inside another week of peril for Thames Water while England drowns in raw sewage
Cat Hobbs

Inside another week of peril for Thames Water while England drowns in raw sewage

No, Keir Starmer, immigration isn't turning Britain into an 'island of strangers'. Here's why
Tim Naor Hilton

No, Keir Starmer, immigration isn't turning Britain into an 'island of strangers'. Here's why

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?
Alex Firth and Michael Garcia Bochenek

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?

The UK's political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough
John Bird

The UK's political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough

The radical right have stolen the centre left's clothes – but it's not too late to fight back
Nick Garland

The radical right have stolen the centre left's clothes – but it's not too late to fight back

We need to change the way we talk about benefits if we're ever going to rebuild trust in the system
Lucy Bannister

We need to change the way we talk about benefits if we're ever going to rebuild trust in the system

In Nigel we trust! How I learned to stop worrying and love Reform UK
Nigel Farage giving a speech
Adam Barnett

In Nigel we trust! How I learned to stop worrying and love Reform UK

Keir Starmer is booting migrants out of his vision for workers' rights
Keir Starmer
Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol

Keir Starmer is booting migrants out of his vision for workers' rights

I'm a Labour MP. This is why I can't support Starmer's benefits cuts
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Paula Barker MP

I'm a Labour MP. This is why I can't support Starmer's benefits cuts

The UK government must learn from Wales and bring about a politics that looks to the future
keir starmer labour prime minister
Will Snell

The UK government must learn from Wales and bring about a politics that looks to the future

Local election results show Labour can't counter Reform by allowing them to set the narrative
Prime minister Keir Starmer
Daniel Sohege

Local election results show Labour can't counter Reform by allowing them to set the narrative

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
LGBTQ+ inclusion doesn't just benefit certain Brits – it helps all of us
pride flags being waved at a Pride celebration
Dominic Arnall

LGBTQ+ inclusion doesn't just benefit certain Brits – it helps all of us

A politician's lies should be seen as abuse. Here's how we can create a climate of truth
Mike Berners-Lee

A politician's lies should be seen as abuse. Here's how we can create a climate of truth

This is how Donald Trump's tariff war could affect your bin collection
Paul McNamee

This is how Donald Trump's tariff war could affect your bin collection

People in poverty feel disconnected from democracy. But it doesn't have to be this way
Hannah Paylor

People in poverty feel disconnected from democracy. But it doesn't have to be this way

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