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‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels
a tent on the street
Refugee homelessness

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels

Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: 'I want to show the world that refugees can do anything'
Refugee boxer Cindy Ngamba
Sport

Olympic boxer Cindy Ngamba: 'I want to show the world that refugees can do anything'

Keir Starmer has unveiled his 'plan for change'. But can Labour really turn Britain around?
Plan for Change

Keir Starmer has unveiled his 'plan for change'. But can Labour really turn Britain around?

'A library is a safe and happy place': The unparalleled joy of a mobile library
Robin Ince

'A library is a safe and happy place': The unparalleled joy of a mobile library

'We didn't know where to go': What's it's like being pregnant, a refugee and homeless at Christmas
Refugee homelessness

'We didn't know where to go': What's it's like being pregnant, a refugee and homeless at Christmas

'Privatisation has failed' – will rail nationalisation make a difference? Yes, but not on its own
Stock image of a train
Nationalisation

'Privatisation has failed' – will rail nationalisation make a difference? Yes, but not on its own

Investing in the North East: A closer look at social impact financing
Big Issue Invest

Investing in the North East: A closer look at social impact financing

'Disgraceful': Tories condemned for wasting £715m on sending no asylum seekers to Rwanda
Asylum seekers

'Disgraceful': Tories condemned for wasting £715m on sending no asylum seekers to Rwanda

Ripcord by Nate Lippens review – acid-tongued meditations on middle-aged homosexuality
Books

Ripcord by Nate Lippens review – acid-tongued meditations on middle-aged homosexuality

Ukrainian mum who fled war dreams of buying Christmas tree and presents for her children
Christmas

Ukrainian mum who fled war dreams of buying Christmas tree and presents for her children

Families fleeing war will be split this Christmas – thanks to the UK's 'cruel' immigration system
immigration and refugeee rights protestors hold up placards reading:
Nick Beales

Families fleeing war will be split this Christmas – thanks to the UK's 'cruel' immigration system

Top 5 new queer books, chosen by author Rachel Dawson
Books

Top 5 new queer books, chosen by author Rachel Dawson

People expect the deep ocean to be filled with monsters. This is what it's really like
Environment

People expect the deep ocean to be filled with monsters. This is what it's really like

I'm in a struggling band but I keep giving our money away – here's why
Millie Manders

I'm in a struggling band but I keep giving our money away – here's why

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved
a man chops vegetables on a table behind an older man
Christmas

Volunteering on Christmas Day: How you can get involved

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean
Protesting the Borders Bill
Immigration

'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean

Meet the tireless volunteers making sure children in poverty have a Christmas to remember
Christmas toy appeals

Meet the tireless volunteers making sure children in poverty have a Christmas to remember

'I don't know if I can get away with this': Inside the making of feel-good queer comedy Smoggie Queens
TV

'I don't know if I can get away with this': Inside the making of feel-good queer comedy Smoggie Queens

How to volunteer at a food bank
volunteers arrange food donations along rows of crates on tables
Food banks

How to volunteer at a food bank

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