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One in five Brits say they feel 'reluctant' just talking to someone with a learning disability
Learning disability week 2024

One in five Brits say they feel 'reluctant' just talking to someone with a learning disability

Paralympian Jessica-Jane Applegate on winning gold and being told she doesn't look disabled enough
Jessica-Jane Applegate
Learning Disability Week 2024

Paralympian Jessica-Jane Applegate on winning gold and being told she doesn't look disabled enough

How outdated misconceptions about people with learning disabilities are holding society back
learning disabilities
Ben Tinkler

How outdated misconceptions about people with learning disabilities are holding society back

Inside the Big Issue: Learning Disability Week special edition
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Learning Disability Week special edition

Big Issue partners with Mencap for special edition put together by people with learning disabilities
Learning disability week 2024

Big Issue partners with Mencap for special edition put together by people with learning disabilities

'It feels like performative empathy': Why opt out emails for Father's Day can make the grief worse
A child approaches a blurred-out fatherlike figure with a card and gift
Father's day

'It feels like performative empathy': Why opt out emails for Father's Day can make the grief worse

Why I'm silenced by the fear of being called a bigot
Robin Ince

Why I'm silenced by the fear of being called a bigot

'Your world changes in a moment': Brain injury survivors share remarkable stories of strength and triumph
Health

'Your world changes in a moment': Brain injury survivors share remarkable stories of strength and triumph

Covid destroyed my mental health and I lost everything – but discovering boxing turned my life around
Craig McLundie benefitted from social prescribing, so could the NHS
Health

Covid destroyed my mental health and I lost everything – but discovering boxing turned my life around

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke: 'Surviving brain injuries gave me a fire to keep going'
Exclusive

Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke: 'Surviving brain injuries gave me a fire to keep going'

Palestine, renting and child poverty: What is – and isn't – in Labour's general election manifesto
Keir Starmer launching the Labour Party manifesto for the 2024 general election
Politics

Palestine, renting and child poverty: What is – and isn't – in Labour's general election manifesto

Poor pay makes care workers feel like second class citizens – the next government must fix this
social care crisis sees care workers experiencing low pay
Katherine Chapman

Poor pay makes care workers feel like second class citizens – the next government must fix this

Dear Sunak and Starmer: Workplace mental health is too serious to be used as a political football
Poppy Jaman

Dear Sunak and Starmer: Workplace mental health is too serious to be used as a political football

Number of pensioners in poverty will double by 2040 unless next government acts
pensioner poverty ageing population
Joanna Elson

Number of pensioners in poverty will double by 2040 unless next government acts

'How dare he': Sunak claims the Tories have reduced child poverty – but it's not exactly the truth
rishi sunak/ child poverty
General election 2024

'How dare he': Sunak claims the Tories have reduced child poverty – but it's not exactly the truth

Taxes, benefit cuts and bad jokes: Key takeaways from the Tory general election manifesto launch
rishi sunak
General Election 2024

Taxes, benefit cuts and bad jokes: Key takeaways from the Tory general election manifesto launch

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Lib Dems hailed for putting NHS and social care at 'heart' of election with 'welcome' manifesto
General election 2024

Lib Dems hailed for putting NHS and social care at 'heart' of election with 'welcome' manifesto

Inside the Big Issue: Game of Throne's star Emilia Clarke and her fight back from brain injuries
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Game of Throne's star Emilia Clarke and her fight back from brain injuries

'You can hear your stomach growling': Kids call on next government to do more to end child poverty
child pvoerty/ dennis and hanna
General election 2024

'You can hear your stomach growling': Kids call on next government to do more to end child poverty

Emilia Clarke feared being fired from Game of Thrones after brain injury
emilia clarke
Emilia Clarke

Emilia Clarke feared being fired from Game of Thrones after brain injury

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