John Bird

Want a reason to be cheerful? Across Europe there are people trying to do the same thing as Big Issue
John Bird

Want a reason to be cheerful? Across Europe there are people trying to do the same thing as Big Issue

The European Social Services Awards highlights the work being done across the continent to destroy poverty
Letters: I don't even know Fairytale of New York
Letters

Letters: I don't even know Fairytale of New York

I've written a Jane Austen spinoff for my 80th birthday. Help me sell a million copies
John Bird

I've written a Jane Austen spinoff for my 80th birthday. Help me sell a million copies

As a child in poverty, the institutional food I was served saved my life. Today's kids need the same
John Bird

As a child in poverty, the institutional food I was served saved my life. Today's kids need the same

Politics needs someone tough to sort out the mess. Louise Casey is just the person for the job
John Bird

Politics needs someone tough to sort out the mess. Louise Casey is just the person for the job

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Big Issue leads call for the government to set targets to end child poverty in upcoming strategy
Child poverty

Big Issue leads call for the government to set targets to end child poverty in upcoming strategy

Westminster must set ambitious, measurable targets to reduce child poverty
set child poverty targets
Child poverty

Westminster must set ambitious, measurable targets to reduce child poverty

On a train journey across England I take a trip into my past
John Bird

On a train journey across England I take a trip into my past

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?
John Bird

The number of homeless deaths is an entirely preventable tragedy. What are we doing?

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations
Big Issue Invest MD Holger Westphely.
Big Issue Invest

Big Issue Invest more than triples investments in 20th year, with £9.4 million deployed to social purpose organisations

Marmot principles should be applied to government departments for ending poverty
John Bird

Marmot principles should be applied to government departments for ending poverty

The only way forward is to split the poverty atom
John Bird

The only way forward is to split the poverty atom

How government inaction is radicalising Britain
John Bird

How government inaction is radicalising Britain

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership
John Bird

The fall of Angela Rayner emphasises the rise in power of property ownership

Happy birthday, Big Issue. Our work continues
John Bird

Happy birthday, Big Issue. Our work continues

My hiatus from work led to some new ideas around poverty prevention
John Bird

My hiatus from work led to some new ideas around poverty prevention

England and Wales must follow Scotland's lead and set legal targets to end child poverty
Big Issue vendors back the Poverty Zero campaign.
Poverty

England and Wales must follow Scotland's lead and set legal targets to end child poverty

Labour rejects Big Issue founder's bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets
Crossbench peer and Big Issue founder Lord John Bird
Child poverty

Labour rejects Big Issue founder's bid to set legally binding child poverty reduction targets

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King's birthday honours
King's birthday honours

Arise Sir Gordon! Big Issue co-founder Gordon Roddick knighted in King's birthday honours

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end
John Bird

Poverty always gets our prime ministers in the end

The pursuit of kindness seems to have been abandoned
John Bird

The pursuit of kindness seems to have been abandoned

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The UK's political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough
John Bird

The UK's political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough

What our world leaders could learn from George Eliot's Middlemarch
John Bird

What our world leaders could learn from George Eliot's Middlemarch

The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient
John Bird

The modernisers of postwar Britain forgot one vital ingredient

Labour's poverty failure 'risks driving voters to Reform UK', warns Big Issue founder
Lord John Bird, photographed for the Big Issue in 2024.
Poverty

Labour's poverty failure 'risks driving voters to Reform UK', warns Big Issue founder