environment and community

Kae Tempest: 'Seeing all these young queer and gender queer people makes me feel so happy'
Letter to my Younger Self

Kae Tempest: 'Seeing all these young queer and gender queer people makes me feel so happy'

Music was an all-consuming escape. Now, every song he writes is a love song
Overwhelming majority of Brits say the country feels divided
Culture wars

Overwhelming majority of Brits say the country feels divided

COP30 marks 30 years of COP climate summits. Has it actually made a difference?
COP30

COP30 marks 30 years of COP climate summits. Has it actually made a difference?

I'm a trans care leaver. Finding love and acceptance as my true self was the best feeling in the world
Jack Smith

I'm a trans care leaver. Finding love and acceptance as my true self was the best feeling in the world

Starmer slams false claim veterans are being evicted to house asylum seekers: 'Conspiracy nonsense'
Exclusive

Starmer slams false claim veterans are being evicted to house asylum seekers: 'Conspiracy nonsense'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Big Issue vendor to donate magazine earnings to 'give back' to forces charities for Remembrance Day
James Brewer selling the Big Issue at Bristol Temple Meads Station.
Our Vendors

Big Issue vendor to donate magazine earnings to 'give back' to forces charities for Remembrance Day

Housing asylum seekers in military camps is an expensive mistake – and the Home Office knows it
asylum seekers at former military barracks
Julia Savage

Housing asylum seekers in military camps is an expensive mistake – and the Home Office knows it

This Greater Manchester group patrols schools looking for 'outsiders' – and it's dividing the community
Heywood

This Greater Manchester group patrols schools looking for 'outsiders' – and it's dividing the community

Should we be scared of the crime all around us? The truth is, it's safer than you think
Crime statistics

Should we be scared of the crime all around us? The truth is, it's safer than you think

Foraging has helped make Finland the world's happiest country. What can we learn from the forest?
Food

Foraging has helped make Finland the world's happiest country. What can we learn from the forest?

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

This couple tried to turn their street into a power station: 'We had no idea what we were doing'
Solar power

This couple tried to turn their street into a power station: 'We had no idea what we were doing'

Behind the sleigh bells and huskies of Lapland's Christmas industry, the Sámi people struggle
Lapland

Behind the sleigh bells and huskies of Lapland's Christmas industry, the Sámi people struggle

When speaking out about racism costs you everything
Hameeda Khan
Hameeda Khan

When speaking out about racism costs you everything

Thames Water wants permission to pollute Britain's rivers until 2040. No, seriously
Water

Thames Water wants permission to pollute Britain's rivers until 2040. No, seriously

What we can learn about the joy of community from the 17th century Digger movement
Theatre

What we can learn about the joy of community from the 17th century Digger movement

There's a looming crisis for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic abuse
the silhouette of a woman in a flat
Melissa

There's a looming crisis for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic abuse

If people don't trust climate science, how will we ever get them to change their ways?
Climate crisis

If people don't trust climate science, how will we ever get them to change their ways?

How a grassroots effort to save an abandoned leisure centre grew into something much more
Big Issue Invest

How a grassroots effort to save an abandoned leisure centre grew into something much more

From broken railways to packed prisons: Margaret Thatcher's legacy continues to cast its long shadow
Politics

From broken railways to packed prisons: Margaret Thatcher's legacy continues to cast its long shadow

Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?
An aerial shot of Beaulieu Park station
Railways

Could building new train stations help get Britain back on track?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Dreaming Whilst Black star Adjani Salmon: 'Black people are asked again and again to explain ourselves'
Adjani Salmon
Adjani Salmon

Dreaming Whilst Black star Adjani Salmon: 'Black people are asked again and again to explain ourselves'

'It's never been more urgent': Inside the garden project empowering communities to grow their own food
George Cornelius gives a tour of Loddington's school garden and wetland project
Food

'It's never been more urgent': Inside the garden project empowering communities to grow their own food

What are the eight Marmot Principles and how could they transform the health of a local area?
manchester pedestrians
Health inequality

What are the eight Marmot Principles and how could they transform the health of a local area?

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie: 'It was hard to get artists to take part in Gig for Gaza'
Bobby Gillespie
Music

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie: 'It was hard to get artists to take part in Gig for Gaza'