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Refugees living in the UK are terrified. Please stand with us in solidarity
A woman holding a sign calling for people to 'Hear us' and 'Believe us'. Image: Simon Tang/ Women for Refugee Women
Memory

Refugees living in the UK are terrified. Please stand with us in solidarity

Memory, a refugee living in the UK, writes about her experiences over the last year following riots and rising right-wing rhetoric. She calls on people to speak out and stand in solidarity, to create a movement supporting refugees
The fight to keep two libraries in two of Liverpool's most deprived areas: 'It would be a grievous blow'
A protest sign at Dovecot Muli Activity Centre in Liverpool
Libraries

The fight to keep two libraries in two of Liverpool's most deprived areas: 'It would be a grievous blow'

Council drops bid to evict food bank from premises in child poverty hotspot: 'Our future is secure'
Food banks

Council drops bid to evict food bank from premises in child poverty hotspot: 'Our future is secure'

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

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

Community housing project offering affordable homes forever up for a prestigious architecture award
Housing

Community housing project offering affordable homes forever up for a prestigious architecture award

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
One year on from the riots, what can Kent tell us about the state of the UK?
Politics

One year on from the riots, what can Kent tell us about the state of the UK?

How residents in Chatham are pulling their decaying high street out of a crisis
Community

How residents in Chatham are pulling their decaying high street out of a crisis

How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: 'They're not going to beat us'
Community

How fitness and defiance helped Sunderland bounce back from the riots: 'They're not going to beat us'

Closure of pubs and parks created a 'tinderbox' for far-right riots, research says: 'Hate can fill the void'
Youngster throws missile at far-right riot In Rotherham
UK riots

Closure of pubs and parks created a 'tinderbox' for far-right riots, research says: 'Hate can fill the void'

These refugees came to Britain for safety. They found roller skates
Refugees

These refugees came to Britain for safety. They found roller skates

'Adults make dumb decisions': What do teenagers think about lowering the voting age?
Democracy

'Adults make dumb decisions': What do teenagers think about lowering the voting age?

Folk culture is everywhere in Britain. You just have to look for it
Folkspotting

Folk culture is everywhere in Britain. You just have to look for it

Giving 16-year-olds the vote: Will it beat far-right populism or does it play right into Farage's hands?
It's our future too banner
Electoral reform

Giving 16-year-olds the vote: Will it beat far-right populism or does it play right into Farage's hands?

Everything you think you know about Romani people is probably wrong – here's why
Madeline Potter

Everything you think you know about Romani people is probably wrong – here's why

'It would be good to know how long we have left': This clifftop community is falling into the sea
Climate crisis

'It would be good to know how long we have left': This clifftop community is falling into the sea

A Community Right to Buy is a first step to building a better Britain up from the streets
A billboard reading Community is Kindness
Joe Fortune

A Community Right to Buy is a first step to building a better Britain up from the streets

Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: The ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted
Deliveroo delivery person on a bicycle
Nathan Philips

Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: The ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted

Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'
Morteza Ehsani, Sammi Ghaderi and Navid Hjyani.
Asylum seekers

Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'

Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK
Asylum seekers

Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK

'There's no magic bullet': The battle to keep Cardiff's vital music scene from dying out
Grassroots music venues

'There's no magic bullet': The battle to keep Cardiff's vital music scene from dying out

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts
Nature

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Patients are dying and facing 'horrible tragedies' due to Manchester's mental health care crisis, staff say
NHS workers in Manchester strike
Mental health

Patients are dying and facing 'horrible tragedies' due to Manchester's mental health care crisis, staff say

Ely riots, two years on: A Cardiff community pulling itself back together holds lessons for Britain
Ely riots

Ely riots, two years on: A Cardiff community pulling itself back together holds lessons for Britain

Disabled protesters say they'll stop Labour's benefit cuts – or die trying: 'I will fight my heart out'
Protesters in Cardiff outside their local MP's office with a sign saying 'welfare not warfare'
Disability benefits

Disabled protesters say they'll stop Labour's benefit cuts – or die trying: 'I will fight my heart out'

I became an actor after 30 years as a Royal Marine. Here's what people need to know about veterans
Sunray: Fallen Soldier film starring Tip Cullen
Tip Cullen

I became an actor after 30 years as a Royal Marine. Here's what people need to know about veterans