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Health

Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist
Abortion

Buffer zones outside abortion clinics are step in right direction – but other problems persist

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse
Dr Claire Ashley

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse

Nitazenes: Harm reduction advice to help keep safe
A syringe of naloxone
Drugs

Nitazenes: Harm reduction advice to help keep safe

Meet the only scientist who knows just how bad the UK's drug deaths crisis truly is
a red hand holds a pill on a yellow background
Drugs

Meet the only scientist who knows just how bad the UK's drug deaths crisis truly is

Health inequality starts in childhood. When will the national debate reflect that?
A small child's hand holds an adult's finger
Rachael McKeown

Health inequality starts in childhood. When will the national debate reflect that?

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that
family at kenilworth castle, holding a pumpkin
Emma Revie and Nick Merriman

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that

Labour can stop more vulnerable people dying from drugs like nitazenes – if it wants. Here's how
Luke O'Neil

Labour can stop more vulnerable people dying from drugs like nitazenes – if it wants. Here's how

'We're the forgotten ones': Labour budget must not ignore 'broken' social care system, families say
carers together
Social care

'We're the forgotten ones': Labour budget must not ignore 'broken' social care system, families say

MPs on all sides call for action on nitazenes after Big Issue exposes Britain's drug deaths crisis
Preet Kaur Gill, Andrew Mitchell, and Carla Denyer
Nitazenes

MPs on all sides call for action on nitazenes after Big Issue exposes Britain's drug deaths crisis

Drug deaths at highest level since records began – and experts say it's going to get worse
Cocaine
Drugs

Drug deaths at highest level since records began – and experts say it's going to get worse

Nitazenes: Use of life-saving overdose drug surges by 50% amid synthetic opioid crisis
Social Justice

Nitazenes: Use of life-saving overdose drug surges by 50% amid synthetic opioid crisis

Children across the UK are living in 'Dickensian conditions' due to sky-high energy bills
child with a thermometer in his mouth
Energy bills

Children across the UK are living in 'Dickensian conditions' due to sky-high energy bills

The inside story of nitazenes and the drug deaths crisis rocking Britain: 'No one is talking about it'
Nitazenes

The inside story of nitazenes and the drug deaths crisis rocking Britain: 'No one is talking about it'

'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

DWP wants to send job coaches into mental health hospitals. Here's why it's a 'dangerous' idea
Employment

DWP wants to send job coaches into mental health hospitals. Here's why it's a 'dangerous' idea

Woman suffers stroke and loses three stone after DWP stops her disability benefits: 'I was a skeleton'
Angela Cater
Disability benefits

Woman suffers stroke and loses three stone after DWP stops her disability benefits: 'I was a skeleton'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
More than 1,400 people died while homeless in the UK in 2023: 'People are dying at terrifying rates'
A couple rough sleeping under a blanket in London
Homelessness

More than 1,400 people died while homeless in the UK in 2023: 'People are dying at terrifying rates'

Hunger and broken shoes: Why we need a more compassionate approach to council tax debt collection
debt worries
Emily Whitford

Hunger and broken shoes: Why we need a more compassionate approach to council tax debt collection

'It's hell on Earth': British doctors recall seeing 'unimaginable suffering' in Gaza
War in Gaza

'It's hell on Earth': British doctors recall seeing 'unimaginable suffering' in Gaza

Starmer and Streeting have talked the talk on mental health support – now they must walk the walk
Labour minister for health, Wes Streeting
Oliver Chantler

Starmer and Streeting have talked the talk on mental health support – now they must walk the walk

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