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Inside the Big Issue: The place that was waiting for us
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: The place that was waiting for us

Letters: A lot of pensioners need the winter fuel payment – but they're missing out
Letters

Letters: A lot of pensioners need the winter fuel payment – but they're missing out

NHS spending on private mental health beds soars to £1.4bn in five years: 'Terrible things are happening'
Mental health

NHS spending on private mental health beds soars to £1.4bn in five years: 'Terrible things are happening'

Comedian Marjolein Robertson on turning folklore and menstruation into comedy gold
Marjolein Robertson
Comedy

Comedian Marjolein Robertson on turning folklore and menstruation into comedy gold

'An act of desperation': GPs vote for industrial action for the first time in 60 years
Employment

'An act of desperation': GPs vote for industrial action for the first time in 60 years

I was granted Freedom of the City but – in my wheelchair – not the freedom of the room
Anna Landre

I was granted Freedom of the City but – in my wheelchair – not the freedom of the room

Winter fuel payments restricted to pensioners on certain benefits
rachel reeves
Benefits

Winter fuel payments restricted to pensioners on certain benefits

GPs threaten to bring 'NHS to a standstill' with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal
NHS

GPs threaten to bring 'NHS to a standstill' with industrial action as junior doctors reach pay deal

'It doesn't have to be this way': More than 200,000 kids needed help from baby banks last year
baby bank
Baby banks

'It doesn't have to be this way': More than 200,000 kids needed help from baby banks last year

Alan Titchmarsh makes the Calm app look like a house party thrown by Super Hans
Lucy Sweet

Alan Titchmarsh makes the Calm app look like a house party thrown by Super Hans

Olympic champion Laura Kenny: 'I was told cycling wasn't a proper job'
Laura Kenny at the 2020 Olympics
Letter To My Younger Self

Olympic champion Laura Kenny: 'I was told cycling wasn't a proper job'

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison
The silhouette of a women standing in front of prison bars
Prisons

'When I first went inside I wanted to die': What life's like inside a UK women's prison

How to make the perfect running playlist, according to science
Celine Dion, Richie Sambora and Pheobe Bridgers can soundtrack your run
Music

How to make the perfect running playlist, according to science

Labour has a chance to stop domestic abuse at its roots – here's how
A woman's hands holding a cup of tea
Caitlin McCullough

Labour has a chance to stop domestic abuse at its roots – here's how

Meet Jennie – Lib Dem MP Steve Darling's guide dog who's changing the face of politics
jennie the guide dog and mp steve darling
Politics

Meet Jennie – Lib Dem MP Steve Darling's guide dog who's changing the face of politics

Keir Starmer promised to tackle child poverty – but we need action, not empty words
Sanah Ahsan

Keir Starmer promised to tackle child poverty – but we need action, not empty words

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
'It was a long, dark night of the soul': What the first 24 hours in prison is really like
prison leavers
Gary Crooks

'It was a long, dark night of the soul': What the first 24 hours in prison is really like

Still no opening date set for UK's first drug consumption room
Drugs

Still no opening date set for UK's first drug consumption room

Half of UK adults don't read for pleasure
Reading

Half of UK adults don't read for pleasure

Letters: I'm an anti-capitalist, non-binary vegan. Here's what private school taught me
Letters

Letters: I'm an anti-capitalist, non-binary vegan. Here's what private school taught me