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Scapegoating asylum seekers is not the answer to violence against women and girls
Cat Linton

Scapegoating asylum seekers is not the answer to violence against women and girls

Safety for women and girls will not be delivered through deportation flights or court battles, warns Cat Linton of migrant charity Hibiscus
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

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here’s the proof
looking down on a table that has a notebook open on it alongside a pen, calculator and an apple // housing benefit
Juliette Flach

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here’s the proof

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Most people with ADHD do not tell their employer – here’s why we must break the silence
Louise Ansari

Most people with ADHD do not tell their employer – here’s why we must break the silence

I believe the Green Party is now the last best hope of saving democracy – we must stay focused
Baroness Jenny Jones

I believe the Green Party is now the last best hope of saving democracy – we must stay focused

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

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I believe the Green Party is now the last best hope of saving democracy – we must stay focused
Baroness Jenny Jones

I believe the Green Party is now the last best hope of saving democracy – we must stay focused

With the Green Party leadership election underway, the party must be confident about elected power
Public service means putting people first. Landlords like Rushanara Ali shouldn’t be government ministers
Former homelessness minister Rushanara Ali and housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa
Kwajo Tweneboa

Public service means putting people first. Landlords like Rushanara Ali shouldn’t be government ministers

Asylum hotel protests aren’t ‘legitimate concerns’. They’re a failure to combat far-right narratives
anti-immigration protesters behind a fence
Griff Ferris and Sadaf Ahmed

Asylum hotel protests aren’t ‘legitimate concerns’. They’re a failure to combat far-right narratives

Homelessness

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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

It takes more than a set of keys to help someone out of homelessness – trust me, I know
a hand holding house keys
Gary Meek

It takes more than a set of keys to help someone out of homelessness – trust me, I know

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know
Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson MP

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know

Public service means putting people first. Landlords like Rushanara Ali shouldn’t be government ministers
Former homelessness minister Rushanara Ali and housing campaigner Kwajo Tweneboa
Kwajo Tweneboa

Public service means putting people first. Landlords like Rushanara Ali shouldn’t be government ministers

Poverty

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Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here’s the proof
looking down on a table that has a notebook open on it alongside a pen, calculator and an apple // housing benefit
Juliette Flach

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here’s the proof

The five-week wait for universal credit is a structural flaw that actively creates debt, instability and dependency, says Christians Against Poverty’s Juliette Flach
I reached out to a food bank after losing everything – it changed my life forever
Hugh McNeill

I reached out to a food bank after losing everything – it changed my life forever

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know
Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson MP

Racism is hardwired into our housing system – trust me, I know

Sam Delaney

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An old football sticker book turns pub night into a nostalgia fest
Sam Delaney

An old football sticker book turns pub night into a nostalgia fest

Letters: Labour are all things to all people in the worst kind of way
Letters

Letters: Labour are all things to all people in the worst kind of way

I’m exhausted from stress – but I know sharing how I feel will help
Sam Delaney

I’m exhausted from stress – but I know sharing how I feel will help

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

John Bird

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England and Wales must follow Scotland’s lead and set legal targets to end child poverty
Big Issue vendors back the Poverty Zero campaign.
Poverty

England and Wales must follow Scotland’s lead and set legal targets to end child poverty

Labour rejects Big Issue founder’s bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets
Crossbench peer and Big Issue founder Lord John Bird
Child poverty

Labour rejects Big Issue founder’s bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King’s birthday honours
King’s birthday honours

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King’s birthday honours

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end
John Bird

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end

Paul McNamee

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Oasis are still connecting and still making history after all these years. Where were you?
Paul McNamee

Oasis are still connecting and still making history after all these years. Where were you?

Right to Buy sold us down the river
Paul McNamee

Right to Buy sold us down the river

Who needs meditation when you have a garden to potter in?
Paul McNamee

Who needs meditation when you have a garden to potter in?

Here’s why it could be time to embrace the four-day week
Paul McNamee

Here’s why it could be time to embrace the four-day week