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Affordable housing is in short supply - here's what other countries are doing about it
Affordable student housing in Denmark
Housing

Affordable housing is in short supply - here's what other countries are doing about it

Postal strikes dates: When are the Royal Mail walkouts this December 2022 and why?
Royal Mail workers hold signs saying yes to strike action
Strikes

Postal strikes dates: When are the Royal Mail walkouts this December 2022 and why?

All the reasons why the new Cumbria coal mine is a terrible idea
Proposed image of Woodhous Colliery
Cumbria coal mine

All the reasons why the new Cumbria coal mine is a terrible idea

Will the government's £18m public information campaign actually help people living in poverty?
rishi sunak/ energy campaig
Energy bills

Will the government's £18m public information campaign actually help people living in poverty?

Why people are furious about Matt Hancock's Pandemic Diaries book
Matt Hancock

Why people are furious about Matt Hancock's Pandemic Diaries book

The Banshees of Inisherin is a curious tonic for these bleak times
Colin Farrell and his little donkey in The Banshees of Inisherin
Paul McNamee

The Banshees of Inisherin is a curious tonic for these bleak times

The disturbing parallels between Awaab Ishak’s death in Rochdale and the Grenfell Tower disaster
Awaab Ishak

The disturbing parallels between Awaab Ishak’s death in Rochdale and the Grenfell Tower disaster

Black and minoritised ethnic communities at disproportionate risk of homelessness in the UK
Homelessness

Black and minoritised ethnic communities at disproportionate risk of homelessness in the UK

Inside Nicola Sturgeon’s operation to win European support for Scottish independence
Scottish Independence

Inside Nicola Sturgeon’s operation to win European support for Scottish independence

The results from a global four-day working week trial are in and you’ll want to show your boss
Four-day working week

The results from a global four-day working week trial are in and you’ll want to show your boss

Four in five of the children’s homes in England are run for profit – here’s why that is a problem
A young girls holds her head in her hands while sitting in a doorway
Child poverty

Four in five of the children’s homes in England are run for profit – here’s why that is a problem

How the ONS measures deaths in the homeless community and why it’s so complex
homelessness rough sleeping Autumn Statement
Homeless deaths

How the ONS measures deaths in the homeless community and why it’s so complex

The fight is on to ensure the Vagrancy Act stays dead
police vagrancy act
Layla Moran

The fight is on to ensure the Vagrancy Act stays dead

The government must measure the true cost of austerity
Protest against government
John Bird

The government must measure the true cost of austerity

How we lost sight of the Beveridge Principles
William Beveridge
Dr Lee Gregory

How we lost sight of the Beveridge Principles

Is the fiscal ‘black hole’ real? We asked economists
Jeremy Hunt, autumn statement
Politics

Is the fiscal ‘black hole’ real? We asked economists

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How spending cuts have decimated public services since 2010, from libraries to youth clubs
Autumn Statement

How spending cuts have decimated public services since 2010, from libraries to youth clubs

British politics urgently needs more imagination. Competence alone will not save us from this ‘polycrisis’
Geoff Mulgan

British politics urgently needs more imagination. Competence alone will not save us from this ‘polycrisis’

The John Lewis Christmas advert is a powerful challenge to foster care stereotypes
ohn Lewis Christmas advert: a young girl arriving at her new foster placement.
Marie-Claire Jones

The John Lewis Christmas advert is a powerful challenge to foster care stereotypes

Why the government must end the low wage economy
Wages

Why the government must end the low wage economy

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