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Inside the Big Issue: Keir Starmer has a job on
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Keir Starmer has a job on

Letters: The DWP needs to be kind – instead of making people's lives difficult
Liz Kendall DWP
Letters

Letters: The DWP needs to be kind – instead of making people's lives difficult

Children's author Malorie Blackman: 'As a teenager I had never read any books by Black authors'
Malorie Blackman speaking at the Merky Books Literature Festival in 2023
Letter to my younger self

Children's author Malorie Blackman: 'As a teenager I had never read any books by Black authors'

Scotland's national poet Kathleen Jamie on why book festivals are wrong target for climate activism
Books

Scotland's national poet Kathleen Jamie on why book festivals are wrong target for climate activism

Smart, no-nonsense moves by Starmer show how toxic and incompetent the Tories have really been
Sam Delaney

Smart, no-nonsense moves by Starmer show how toxic and incompetent the Tories have really been

Why watching the news can be like watching a horror film – literally
Film

Why watching the news can be like watching a horror film – literally

Top 5 books by Latin American writers, chosen by poet and author Richard Gwyn
Books

Top 5 books by Latin American writers, chosen by poet and author Richard Gwyn

Travis frontman Fran Healy on unfinished business and why being working class is a superpower
Travis (l-r) Andy Dunlop, Fran Healy, Dougie Payne and Neil Primrose
Music

Travis frontman Fran Healy on unfinished business and why being working class is a superpower

Activist Kwajo Tweneboa: 'We're facing the biggest housing crisis since World War II'
Housing

Activist Kwajo Tweneboa: 'We're facing the biggest housing crisis since World War II'

Homeless people need more than sandwiches – they need and deserve to be seen as individuals
Homelessness

Homeless people need more than sandwiches – they need and deserve to be seen as individuals

DWP's 'automation' of universal credit discriminates against single mums, researchers say
benefits/ money
Universal credit

DWP's 'automation' of universal credit discriminates against single mums, researchers say

Inside the years-long pay row in Scotland risking the futures of working-class students
Education

Inside the years-long pay row in Scotland risking the futures of working-class students

With the new government comes a new opportunity to rethink welfare and benefits 
John Bird

With the new government comes a new opportunity to rethink welfare and benefits 

Spent star Michelle de Swarte: 'Someone had to tell me I was homeless – I was in such denial'
Michelle de Swarte
TV

Spent star Michelle de Swarte: 'Someone had to tell me I was homeless – I was in such denial'

Big Issue and Cardboard Citizens present new film series showing homelessness is more than one story
Film

Big Issue and Cardboard Citizens present new film series showing homelessness is more than one story

Rachel Reeves brings back mandatory housing targets – but Labour has a huge mountain to climb
Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves
Housing

Rachel Reeves brings back mandatory housing targets – but Labour has a huge mountain to climb

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Letters: The politicians who deserve power are the ones speaking on real issues
Letters

Letters: The politicians who deserve power are the ones speaking on real issues

Inside the Big Issue: Kwajo Tweneboa's home truths for new government
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Kwajo Tweneboa's home truths for new government

Rowan Williams: 'The challenge is whether religion is part of the solution or part of the problem'
Letter To My Younger Self

Rowan Williams: 'The challenge is whether religion is part of the solution or part of the problem'

7 ways to make the most of your summer now the 'greyest election of our lifetime' is over
Summer

7 ways to make the most of your summer now the 'greyest election of our lifetime' is over

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