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environment and community

'Gen Z are turning to culture instead of alcohol': Is the party holiday officially over?  
Sustainable travel

'Gen Z are turning to culture instead of alcohol': Is the party holiday officially over?  

'Infuriating and disgraceful': Labour MP Jas Athwal faces fresh calls to resign amid care home row
Labour MP Jas Athwal speaking in the House of Commons
Social care

'Infuriating and disgraceful': Labour MP Jas Athwal faces fresh calls to resign amid care home row

Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people's homes and using them as drug dens
police on patrol
Crime

Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people's homes and using them as drug dens

Top 5 Desi books – chosen by Indi Deol, founder of British Asian magazine DESIblitz
Books

Top 5 Desi books – chosen by Indi Deol, founder of British Asian magazine DESIblitz

Slavery reparations: A rose-tinted view of empire stops us seeing what we really owe the Caribbean
Eleanor Shearer

Slavery reparations: A rose-tinted view of empire stops us seeing what we really owe the Caribbean

Where has all the fog gone?
Nature

Where has all the fog gone?

Fin DAC: 'As a creator of public murals, I aspire to leave spaces brighter than I found them'
Fin DAC
Fin DAC

Fin DAC: 'As a creator of public murals, I aspire to leave spaces brighter than I found them'

Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'
Bibby Stockholm protest
Asylum hotels

Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'

Trans Brits feel like a 'constant target' in wake of Brianna Ghey's murder: 'Trans kids deserve better'
LGBTQ+ rights

Trans Brits feel like a 'constant target' in wake of Brianna Ghey's murder: 'Trans kids deserve better'

'We're not diesel monsters': Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change
Climate change

'We're not diesel monsters': Meet the London cabbies going electric to help fight climate change

Mr Loverman star Ariyon Bakare: 'The struggle for LGBTQ+ acceptance continues in the Caribbean community'
Lennie James and Ariyon Bakare in BBC1's Mr Loverman
Ariyon Bakare

Mr Loverman star Ariyon Bakare: 'The struggle for LGBTQ+ acceptance continues in the Caribbean community'

'It's like a death sentence when I'm not guilty': How the UK is failing women in prison with cancer
Prisons

'It's like a death sentence when I'm not guilty': How the UK is failing women in prison with cancer

'I lost everything imaginable': Women in Gaza recall how a year of war has upended their lives
Shurooq and her children in the school-turned-shelter where they are living.
Shurooq, Asmaa and Raja

'I lost everything imaginable': Women in Gaza recall how a year of war has upended their lives

What Tory leader hopefuls Badenoch and Jenrick think about poverty, benefits, housing and more
Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick
Politics

What Tory leader hopefuls Badenoch and Jenrick think about poverty, benefits, housing and more

Refugees still flee war-torn Ukraine every single day. This is what their journey to safety is like
Ukraine

Refugees still flee war-torn Ukraine every single day. This is what their journey to safety is like

From ancient civilisations to industrial revolutions: How horses shaped the world we live in today
Horses

From ancient civilisations to industrial revolutions: How horses shaped the world we live in today

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The UK needed Bronski Beat in 1984. Forty years on, their pop and politics remind us to be strong
Lucy Robinson

The UK needed Bronski Beat in 1984. Forty years on, their pop and politics remind us to be strong

Over half of London working parents use food banks, study finds: 'Is this the country we live in?'
Food banks

Over half of London working parents use food banks, study finds: 'Is this the country we live in?'

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick
a man with a backpack leans against a lamppost
Social Justice

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone

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