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Gaza’s children need more than a ceasefire. We need to give them hope for a safe future
Children in a camp for displaced people in the northern Gaza Strip.
Helen Pattinson

Gaza’s children need more than a ceasefire. We need to give them hope for a safe future

Helen Pattinson, chief executive of War Child UK, writes about the future for children in Gaza and what is needed to keep them safe
UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped
Jasleen Chaggar

UK faces another Post Office Horizon scandal unless plans to snoop on benefit claimants are stopped

Here’s why we need to fight for Britain’s right to roam
Leah Gordon

Here’s why we need to fight for Britain’s right to roam

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If Prince Andrew didn’t pay rent on the Royal Lodge for 20 years, why wasn’t he evicted?
Jacob Gifford Head

If Prince Andrew didn’t pay rent on the Royal Lodge for 20 years, why wasn’t he evicted?

Cold homes are costing lives. Labour’s warm homes plan must deliver on its promise
Andria Mastroianni and Matt Copeland

Cold homes are costing lives. Labour’s warm homes plan must deliver on its promise

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty

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The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?
John Bird

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?

Many people experience homelessness as the result of inherited poverty. We can fix this, but we have to really want to
This is why parliament needs to replace the e-petitions system with a House of Campaigns
Richard Ellis

This is why parliament needs to replace the e-petitions system with a House of Campaigns

Labour can’t out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack
Nigel Farage
Stephen Walcott

Labour can’t out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack

Homelessness

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Dispersed accommodation is the future for helping domestic abuse survivors escape homelessness
a woman holding a cup of tea
Rachel Shuter

Dispersed accommodation is the future for helping domestic abuse survivors escape homelessness

Oxford university lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it’s no longer shocking
Bianca Robinson

Oxford university lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it’s no longer shocking

Debt trap nation: How England is failing homeless mothers and children
a child at the window of their home
Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki

Debt trap nation: How England is failing homeless mothers and children

Labour won’t reduce homelessness until they understand how it links to immigration
homeless tents
Louisa Thomas

Labour won’t reduce homelessness until they understand how it links to immigration

Poverty

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Oxford university lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it’s no longer shocking
Bianca Robinson

Oxford university lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it’s no longer shocking

The head of CEO Sleepout wants us all to be angry. And to turn that into action
The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?
John Bird

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivering the autumn budget in 2024.
Howard Reed and Martin O’Neill

Taxing wealth in the budget could score the chancellor a triple win

Sam Delaney

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Seeing your kid off to university is a joy – but we had some wobbles on the motorway
Sam Delaney

Seeing your kid off to university is a joy – but we had some wobbles on the motorway

Being an extra on a TV show is easy… isn’t it?
Sam Delaney

Being an extra on a TV show is easy… isn’t it?

Don’t believe what people are saying about London – it’s much safer than when I was a kid
Sam Delaney

Don’t believe what people are saying about London – it’s much safer than when I was a kid

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

John Bird

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On a train journey across England I take a trip into my past
John Bird

On a train journey across England I take a trip into my past

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?
John Bird

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations
Big Issue Invest MD Holger Westphely.
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations

Marmot principles should be applied to government departments for ending poverty
John Bird

Marmot principles should be applied to government departments for ending poverty

Paul McNamee

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AI is coming for journalism, among other jobs. Enjoy us while you can
Paul McNamee

AI is coming for journalism, among other jobs. Enjoy us while you can

My aunt was a nun. Even she read Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters
Paul McNamee

My aunt was a nun. Even she read Jilly Cooper’s bonkbusters

UK public deem Claudia Winkleman more trustworthy than Rachel Reeves, according to Big Issue Ipsos poll
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UK public deem Claudia Winkleman more trustworthy than Rachel Reeves, according to Big Issue Ipsos poll

Rachel Reeves’s budget will need to be a feast of financial alchemy
Rachel Reeves
Paul McNamee

Rachel Reeves’s budget will need to be a feast of financial alchemy