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DWP to ban people from driving and seize money from bank accounts to recover benefit debts
DWP to ban people from driving and seize money from bank accounts to recover benefit debts
Experts fear vulnerable people could be impacted by the government’s latest policy to tackle fraud and error in the benefits system
Inside the exhibition explaining how homeless people have been treated as criminals for 400 years
Inside the exhibition explaining how homeless people have been treated as criminals for 400 years
‘It feels like, as a country, we’ve shot ourselves in the foot with Brexit’
‘It feels like, as a country, we’ve shot ourselves in the foot with Brexit’
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Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
Boston is the most pro-Brexit town in the UK. What has leaving the EU changed? ‘They got nothing’
Boston is the most pro-Brexit town in the UK. What has leaving the EU changed? ‘They got nothing’
Cost of living crisis
DWP to ban people from driving and seize money from bank accounts to recover benefit debts
DWP to ban people from driving and seize money from bank accounts to recover benefit debts
Keir Starmer has resigned. What is his legacy on the biggest issues in Britain?
Keir Starmer has resigned. What is his legacy on the biggest issues in Britain?
Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham’s Britain would look like
Nationalisation, buses and homes for rough sleepers: This is what Andy Burnham’s Britain would look like
Inside the Big Issue: Homelessness, Survival, Resistance
Inside the Big Issue: Homelessness, Survival, Resistance
Housing
Inside the exhibition explaining how homeless people have been treated as criminals for 400 years
Inside the exhibition explaining how homeless people have been treated as criminals for 400 years
Big Issue founder urges action on empty homes: ‘What are we going to do about boarded-up houses?’
Big Issue founder urges action on empty homes: ‘What are we going to do about boarded-up houses?’
Vagrancy Act: Labour promised to decriminalise rough sleeping in spring – so when will it happen?
Vagrancy Act: Labour promised to decriminalise rough sleeping in spring – so when will it happen?
Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?
Rents in UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?
Our vendors
‘Pets are family’: why Big Issue and Animal Friends are fighting to keep people and their animals together
‘Pets are family’: why Big Issue and Animal Friends are fighting to keep people and their animals together
‘Governments understand there’s a problem with poverty – they’re just too scared to solve it’
‘Governments understand there’s a problem with poverty – they’re just too scared to solve it’
Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: ‘Reading is the world’
Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: ‘Reading is the world’
Big Issue vendors and their dogs take housing fight to parliament: ‘I’d be lost without her’
Big Issue vendors and their dogs take housing fight to parliament: ‘I’d be lost without her’
Employment
How Britain failed one million NEET young people: ‘We’re wasting a generation’s talent’
How Britain failed one million NEET young people: ‘We’re wasting a generation’s talent’
‘Give people a chance’: Monica Galetti on the restaurant helping people out of homelessness
‘Give people a chance’: Monica Galetti on the restaurant helping people out of homelessness
Masterchef star Monica Galetti joins restaurant staffed by homeless people
Masterchef star Monica Galetti joins restaurant staffed by homeless people
Youth unemployment has a ‘long-term scarring effect’ affecting finances and health decades later
Youth unemployment has a ‘long-term scarring effect’ affecting finances and health decades later
Social justice
DWP to ban people from driving and seize money from bank accounts to recover benefit debts
DWP to ban people from driving and seize money from bank accounts to recover benefit debts
How the fight for common land is now the fight for access to the internet
How the fight for common land is now the fight for access to the internet
‘I left my abuser – and then the family court gave him custody of my children’
‘I left my abuser – and then the family court gave him custody of my children’
Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: ‘Reading is the world’
Why Big Issue vendors are giving away free books: ‘Reading is the world’
Activism
Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
Leicester Riders: The basketball team taking on knife crime
‘Football is a release, it takes away all the stress you have and you just feel free with the ball’
‘Football is a release, it takes away all the stress you have and you just feel free with the ball’
In pictures: What does a protest look like in modern Britain?
In pictures: What does a protest look like in modern Britain?
What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: ‘It’s important to give hope’
What running with Tinie Tempah taught us about volunteering: ‘It’s important to give hope’
Environment
In pictures: Meet the farmers in Pakistan who are rebuilding their homes after devastating floods
In pictures: Meet the farmers in Pakistan who are rebuilding their homes after devastating floods
Is there really an air conditioning ban in Britain?
Is there really an air conditioning ban in Britain?
Chucky spent eight years in and out of homelessness. Now he’s training to keep bees
Chucky spent eight years in and out of homelessness. Now he’s training to keep bees
David Attenborough by Chris Packham: ‘I don’t think he has an earthly equal’
