Analysis

What's caused the UK's water shortage - and what can I do to help?
Drought

What's caused the UK's water shortage - and what can I do to help?

Here's why we shouldn't leave the future of transport to Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley future of transport
future of transport

Here's why we shouldn't leave the future of transport to Silicon Valley

What would a world without borders look like?
Books

What would a world without borders look like?

Energy bills: why yours is now so expensive, and where all the money goes
Picture of a gas hob
Analysis

Energy bills: why yours is now so expensive, and where all the money goes

Why century-dead trade unionist James Connolly is the political voice of the summer
James Connolly
Unions

Why century-dead trade unionist James Connolly is the political voice of the summer

How cities around the world are learning to cope with heatwaves
A fountain in Paris
Heatwave

How cities around the world are learning to cope with heatwaves

How the Tory leadership candidates score on climate change issues
Rishi Sunak at COP26
Tory leadership race

How the Tory leadership candidates score on climate change issues

Here's what the Tory leadership contenders have done - and what they've promised as PM
Boris Johnson looks out of the door at Number 10.
Boris Johnson

Here's what the Tory leadership contenders have done - and what they've promised as PM

Brexit, Partygate, lying? What is Boris Johnson's legacy as prime minister?
Boris Johnson legacy
Boris Johnson

Brexit, Partygate, lying? What is Boris Johnson's legacy as prime minister?

What new chancellor Nadhim Zahawi can do to tackle the cost of living crisis
Cost of living/ Image of chancellor
Cost of living crisis

What new chancellor Nadhim Zahawi can do to tackle the cost of living crisis

Who is Nadhim Zahawi, Boris Johnson’s new Chancellor?
Nadhim Zahawi relaxes in a suit on a chair next to the chancellor's famous red dispatch box
Politics

Who is Nadhim Zahawi, Boris Johnson’s new Chancellor?

Steve Barclay: How the new health secretary has voted on abortion, assisted dying and the NHS
Steve Barclay
Politics

Steve Barclay: How the new health secretary has voted on abortion, assisted dying and the NHS

How long does Boris Johnson have left as prime minister? 
Boris Johnson

How long does Boris Johnson have left as prime minister? 

Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?
Home ownership

Will 50-year mortgages help tackle the housing crisis?

The next Mick Lynch? As strike action escalates, these are the union leaders you may come to know
train strikes
Strike action

The next Mick Lynch? As strike action escalates, these are the union leaders you may come to know

Roe v Wade overturned: What abortion access and reproductive rights look like around the world
Women march holding banners and signs saying
Abortion rights

Roe v Wade overturned: What abortion access and reproductive rights look like around the world

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The summer of discontent? Why the cost of living crisis is causing so many strikes
strike action

The summer of discontent? Why the cost of living crisis is causing so many strikes

Heatwaves are Britain's new normal - and our homes can't stand the heat
Image of a high rise flat block
UK heatwave

Heatwaves are Britain's new normal - and our homes can't stand the heat

High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet – here’s how to keep them high while avoiding riots or hurting the poor
Petrol pump
Environment

High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet – here’s how to keep them high while avoiding riots or hurting the poor

Keir Starmer: What Labour leader could learn from Neil Kinnock to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s woes
Labour leader Keir Starmer stnads at a lectern at Labour conference in 2019
Politics

Keir Starmer: What Labour leader could learn from Neil Kinnock to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s woes