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Google’s AI says Declan Rice donated £14m to house homeless families – but it’s not true
Declan Rice
Technology

Google’s AI says Declan Rice donated £14m to house homeless families – but it’s not true

Google’s AI summary is telling users Arsenal footballer Declan Rice donated £14m to a London housing project. The story’s not true – and the AI hallucination brings a wider warning
Would scaling up the UK-France asylum deal really stop the small boats?
Habib from Afghanistan explained that people are only crossing the Channel in small boats because they're desperate
Immigration

Would scaling up the UK-France asylum deal really stop the small boats?

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’
carer pushing someone in a wheelchair
Social care

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’

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Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn
Homelessness

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn

Bailiffs tried taking my kids’ toys over council tax debt – people shouldn’t have to go through this
Council tax

Bailiffs tried taking my kids’ toys over council tax debt – people shouldn’t have to go through this

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

Cost of living crisis

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Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’
carer pushing someone in a wheelchair
Social care

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’

Two-child benefit cap is ‘punishing’ working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy
Three children
Child poverty

Two-child benefit cap is ‘punishing’ working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy

Brits feel more powerless and distrusting than ever, research finds: ‘This is worrying for all of us’
Trust

Brits feel more powerless and distrusting than ever, research finds: ‘This is worrying for all of us’

Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK
woman in supermarket
Living standards

Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK

Housing

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Google’s AI says Declan Rice donated £14m to house homeless families – but it’s not true
Declan Rice
Technology

Google’s AI says Declan Rice donated £14m to house homeless families – but it’s not true

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn
Tina who lives in temporary accommodation
Homelessness

Cost of housing homeless people in temporary accommodation soars to £2.8bn

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2025

Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?
rents uk
Renting

Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?

Our vendors

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“My customers have been very good to me”: Big Issue vendor Tony Flynn returns to work after triple heart bypass
Big Issue vendor Tony Flynn with a copy of the magazine.
Press Release

“My customers have been very good to me”: Big Issue vendor Tony Flynn returns to work after triple heart bypass

BillyChip partners with Big Issue to help our vendors
Our vendors

BillyChip partners with Big Issue to help our vendors

Donald Trump wants ‘the homeless to move out’ – while simultaneously dismantling homelessness prevention
Steven MacKenzie

Donald Trump wants ‘the homeless to move out’ – while simultaneously dismantling homelessness prevention

Letters: Immigration is good for a country
Letters

Letters: Immigration is good for a country

Employment

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Privately educated elite five times more likely to take Britain’s most powerful and influential jobs
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer
Education

Privately educated elite five times more likely to take Britain’s most powerful and influential jobs

Universal credit sanctions ‘undermine’ Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs
A DWP Jobcentre
Department for Work and Pensions

Universal credit sanctions ‘undermine’ Jobcentre employment support, DWP warned by MPs

Watering down the Employment Rights Bill after Rayner exit would be ‘gift’ to Farage, experts warn
Workers’ rights

Watering down the Employment Rights Bill after Rayner exit would be ‘gift’ to Farage, experts warn

Disabled people warn of brutal ‘secret’ cuts to DWP Access to Work support: ‘It’s been horrific’
Access to work

Disabled people warn of brutal ‘secret’ cuts to DWP Access to Work support: ‘It’s been horrific’

Social justice

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Would scaling up the UK-France asylum deal really stop the small boats?
Habib from Afghanistan explained that people are only crossing the Channel in small boats because they're desperate
Immigration

Would scaling up the UK-France asylum deal really stop the small boats?

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’
carer pushing someone in a wheelchair
Social care

Number of full-time unpaid carers in Britain soars by 70%: ‘Millions of us are carers or need care’

Bailiffs tried taking my kids’ toys over council tax debt – people shouldn’t have to go through this
Acorn members hand in their open letter at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
Council tax

Bailiffs tried taking my kids’ toys over council tax debt – people shouldn’t have to go through this

Two-child benefit cap is ‘punishing’ working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy
Three children
Child poverty

Two-child benefit cap is ‘punishing’ working families, Labour warned ahead of child poverty strategy

Activism

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Meet the primary school children with big ideas to end homelessness in the UK
Homelessness

Meet the primary school children with big ideas to end homelessness in the UK

Kneecap rapper Mo Chara’s ‘terrorism’ charge: Is it about free speech, Palestine or something more?
Kneecap

Kneecap rapper Mo Chara’s ‘terrorism’ charge: Is it about free speech, Palestine or something more?

How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: ‘It’s one of the best things you can do’
Jack at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium. Image: Arsenal in the Community
Football

How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: ‘It’s one of the best things you can do’

When the world seems polarised, volunteering has a way of unifying people and rebuilding hope
Volunteering

When the world seems polarised, volunteering has a way of unifying people and rebuilding hope

Environment

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Wildfires are on the rise in Britain. So how do we protect ourselves?
Climate change

Wildfires are on the rise in Britain. So how do we protect ourselves?

These people re-traced Charles Darwin’s voyage around the world. This is what they learned
Darwin200

These people re-traced Charles Darwin’s voyage around the world. This is what they learned

Sky-high bills and sewage at its worst in over a century: What is the future of British water?
Water

Sky-high bills and sewage at its worst in over a century: What is the future of British water?

How I made friends with a great oak tree named Quercus
Trees

How I made friends with a great oak tree named Quercus

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