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Have dinner parties always been smug?
Society

Have dinner parties always been smug?

Having people over, as the self-consciously un-snobbish tried to rebrand it, seems to have lost credibility
A plan for equitable eye care was promised years ago. Why are we waiting?
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A plan for equitable eye care was promised years ago. Why are we waiting?

Letters: Our obsession with positivity is exhausting! Why is grief still such a taboo?
Letters

Letters: Our obsession with positivity is exhausting! Why is grief still such a taboo?

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Microchimerism: When the cells in your body are not your own
Science

Microchimerism: When the cells in your body are not your own

What do the government’s vet prices reforms mean for pet owners?
Vet bills

What do the government’s vet prices reforms mean for pet owners?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

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A plan for equitable eye care was promised years ago. Why are we waiting?
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A plan for equitable eye care was promised years ago. Why are we waiting?

Why everyone should give boxing a try, according to ex-world champ Jane Couch
Boxing

Why everyone should give boxing a try, according to ex-world champ Jane Couch

Inside the UK’s first NHS boxing gym: ‘You can pick yourself up no matter what’
Health

Inside the UK’s first NHS boxing gym: ‘You can pick yourself up no matter what’

This is how to get fit without time, money or space 
Fitness

This is how to get fit without time, money or space 

Money

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What do the government’s vet prices reforms mean for pet owners?
Vet bills

What do the government’s vet prices reforms mean for pet owners?

More than half of people with mental health problems regularly run out of money
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Money

More than half of people with mental health problems regularly run out of money

Millions of Brits are going without food and heating to improve their credit score
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Credit

Millions of Brits are going without food and heating to improve their credit score

How to survive the cold weather when you’re struggling to pay your bills
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Cost of living

How to survive the cold weather when you’re struggling to pay your bills

Ethical shopping

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One year in: how giffgaff’s support is transforming life for vendors
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One year in: how giffgaff’s support is transforming life for vendors

How Lenovo and Big Issue Invest Are Powering Digital Inclusion for UK Social Enterprises
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How Lenovo and Big Issue Invest Are Powering Digital Inclusion for UK Social Enterprises

How electric vehicles are changing lives on Big Issue’s front line
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How electric vehicles are changing lives on Big Issue’s front line

Free phones are helping 400 people find work after homelessness and unemployment
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Free phones are helping 400 people find work after homelessness and unemployment

Food

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Have dinner parties always been smug?
Society

Have dinner parties always been smug?

How marmalade spread across the world
Food

How marmalade spread across the world

Young people turning to social media over NHS for nutrition and diet advice: ‘Social media is trumping doctors’
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Health

Young people turning to social media over NHS for nutrition and diet advice: ‘Social media is trumping doctors’

27 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the Christmas holiday
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Kids eat free

27 places where kids can eat for free or £1 over the Christmas holiday