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54,302 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd4fc1aa2", "title": "A new Bhopal disaster play asks whose lives are considered expendable in the pursuit of profit?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/environment/darkling-bhopal-disaster-play/", "published_at": "2026-09-26T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd5aec11f", "title": "Screenwriter Andrew Davies: ‘I didn’t mind people saying I sexed up Pride & Prejudice’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/screenwriter-andrew-davies-letter-to-my-younger-self/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd5ed4e7c", "title": "Will chancellor John Healey unfreeze local housing allowance at the autumn budget?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/local-housing-allowance-housing-benefit/", "published_at": "2026-09-25T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd6c3194f", "title": "How a British man was pulled into modern slavery working at a food court in the heart of London", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/how-british-man-fell-into-modern-slavery-london/", "published_at": "2026-09-24T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd717caee", "title": "Women can’t be left out in the cold if we are to end rough sleeping", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/women-rough-sleeping-immigration/", "published_at": "2026-09-24T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd7b095dd", "title": "Are you paying enough council tax? How Londoners could be underpaying property taxes by £3.1bn", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/are-you-underpaying-council-tax/", "published_at": "2026-09-23T23:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd86c0f1d", "title": "It’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the world. So why are we so lonely?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/how-to-beat-loneliness-social-media/", "published_at": "2026-09-23T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd8db6811", "title": "Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard: ‘I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/death-cab-for-cutie-ben-gibbard-ltmys/", "published_at": "2026-09-23T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd8e47730", "title": "Veteran and double amputee Rick Clement turns to YouTube to open up countryside to wheelchair users", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/environment/rick-clement-veteran-accessibility-countryside/", "published_at": "2026-09-23T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0deea-74d5-720c-ab25-f30dd996c7c5", "title": "Influencers are using smart glasses to film homeless people. It’s exploiting people for views", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/influencers-smart-glasses-homeless-people-meta/", "published_at": "2026-09-23T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c348c040", "title": "Hedge funds want to take control of Thames Water. What could it mean for bills?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/environment/hedge-funds-thames-water-bills/", "published_at": "2026-09-22T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c3547bb5", "title": "What are data centres? And do we even need them?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/what-are-data-centres-ai-technology/", "published_at": "2026-09-22T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c44b71b5", "title": "Dealing with the cost of living is essential to help young people out of Britain’s NEETs crisis", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/neets-cost-of-living-new-economics-foundation/", "published_at": "2026-09-22T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c5164e51", "title": "‘I still have concerns about the Timms Review of PIP. Will mental health be protected?’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/letters-concerns-pip-timms-review-mental-health/", "published_at": "2026-09-22T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c51afeb2", "title": "AI is increasingly being used on listings for homes to rent. Is it acceptable or misleading?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/looking-to-rent-somewhere-careful-browsing-room-enhanced-by-ai/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c591beed", "title": "Ilkeston Big Issue vendor James Allerton: ‘My dog is like a son to me’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/vendor-james-allerton-my-dog-is-like-a-son-to-me/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c5a97feb", "title": "The AI-induced apocalypse could be nearing. Why not chat to a Big Issue vendor instead of a bot?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/the-ai-induced-apocalypse-could-be-nearing-why-not-chat-to-a-big-issue-vendor-instead-of-a-bot/", "published_at": "2026-09-21T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c6286f7e", "title": "‘Without humanitarian aid, there is no life in Gaza. We have to hope tomorrow will be better’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/anwar-dec-gaza-aid/", "published_at": "2026-09-20T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c6a9abd7", "title": "Don’t be fooled: reviving the Help to Buy scheme won’t make housing more affordable in 2026", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/help-to-buy-scheme-ippr/", "published_at": "2026-09-19T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df01-d30b-73d2-b5ba-71a0c6ea628a", "title": "Big Issue founder leads call for a national empty homes strategy: ‘A completely wasted resource’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/big-issue-john-bird-empty-homes-strategy/", "published_at": "2026-09-19T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f369ad79", "title": "Why the music you love listening to right now could be a dementia lifeline in the future", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/music-love-lifeline-future-dementia-national-playlist-day/", "published_at": "2026-09-18T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f4355b96", "title": "Lisa Maffia: ‘To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/so-solid-crew-star-lisa-maffia-letter-to-my-younger-self/", "published_at": "2026-09-18T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f46b762f", "title": "How Big Issue came up from the streets, 35 years on: ‘It was the most chaotic, beautiful madness’ ", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/story-of-the-big-issue-35-years-on/", "published_at": "2026-09-18T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f4f10781", "title": "It has taken years to regulate bailiffs. Stopping intimidation is as important as recovering debt", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/stepchange-bailiff-regulation-debt/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T13:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f5a69dc3", "title": "Council spending on housing homeless families in England at almost £3bn a year: ‘It’s crippling’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/temporary-accommodation-spending-england-2025-26/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T11:32:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f5e0a0d3", "title": "Labour is facing calls to means-test disability benefit PIP. Here’s why it would push up poverty", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/labour-means-test-pip-backfire/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T11:27:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f64ac5c5", "title": "What it’s like to sell the Big Issue magazine for 35 years: ‘We’re part of a British institution’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/big-issue-35-vendor-kelvin-gregory/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T09:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f67994ab", "title": "‘I grew up in social housing and now I’m going to Harvard. It’s given me drive to change the world’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/homeless-harvard-monay-thomas/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T08:14:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3470-73fd-8495-9ca8f740a556", "title": "Why music megastar Bryan Adams became a Big Issue Ambassador: ‘Big kudos for everything you do’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/bryan-adams-big-issue-ambassador-interview/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df17-3471-729c-aa89-22629e5c27fc", "title": "Rents in the UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/rents-in-the-uk-are-rising-at-the-highest-rate-for-14-years-will-they-keep-going-up/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T15:14:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae11a3912e", "title": "How a Big Issue vendor overcame homelessness to play hockey for England: ‘It means everything’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/dan-bleach-big-issue-vendor-homelessness-hockey-england/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae11b22449", "title": "Big Issue at 35: How prime ministers have supported Big Issue vendors", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/big-issue-at-35-prime-ministers/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae12a649a8", "title": "People could face an ‘impossible winter’ with energy bills forecast to rise by 25% in January", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/energy-bills-rise-january-impossible-winter/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae12f113d7", "title": "‘So many of the problems we face today are a result of Right to Buy’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/problems-today-result-of-right-to-buy/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae135eb2e9", "title": "Rents are set to rise 5% by the end of 2026. Here’s what it could mean for homelessness", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/rents-zoopla-2026-local-housing-allowance/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae145b297d", "title": "I’m a KFC youth worker. Young people aren’t a lost cause – we’re failing them at the first hurdle", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/young-people-lost-cause-kfc-youth-foundation/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae14ff6171", "title": "As Big Issue turns 35, our mission to terminate homelessness is unchanged", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/big-issue-35-homelessness-terminator/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae152d8a94", "title": "Andy Burnham exclusive on rough sleeping plan: ‘It’s not just a one-off thing for Christmas’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/andy-burnham-rough-sleeping-interview-big-issue-35/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T23:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae15a9a0fd", "title": "Bryan Adams named as Big Issue ambassador: ‘Keep fighting the fight’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/bryan-adams-named-as-big-issue-ambassador/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T23:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df2b-85b3-705a-84c0-b6ae161f8cba", "title": "I have seen the future. People are paid a basic income to escape ‘labourism’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/southbank-centre-letters-to-the-future/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e2e065c9", "title": "My daughter collapsed and died before my eyes. I learned British Sign Language to process my grief", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/british-sign-language-grief-dave-healey/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e32be847", "title": "More children will get free school meals this school year. Here’s what you need to know", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/children-free-school-meals-expansion-universal-credit/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T14:43:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e37db664", "title": "What are Andy Burnham’s cost of living plans and what will they mean for you?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/andy-burnham-cost-of-living-plans/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T14:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e3c34b49", "title": "Kelly Macdonald: ‘We went to militant demonstrations. I still know all my anti-poll tax songs’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/tv/kelly-macdonald-trainspotting-ltmys-interview/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e484ff8b", "title": "What could be in chancellor John Healey’s autumn budget and what could it mean for you?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/what-could-be-in-budget-2026-autumn-statement/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e4d4bf5f", "title": "Meet the photographer capturing UK homelessness – who became homeless himself", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/photographer-brock-elbank-homelessness/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e50f7392", "title": "How Big Issue saved vendor Robin Price’s life as magazine turns 35: ‘Without them, I’d be dead’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/big-issue-vendor-robin-price-35-birthday/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e5f54697", "title": "Timms Review recommends changes to ‘dehumanising’ PIP assessment process", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/timms-review-changes-pip-assessment-process/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e60b67ec", "title": "I spent 60 hours sat in a bathtub in Leeds to show how my soap company can tackle addiction", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/getting-clean-addiction-homelessness-chris-sylvester/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df42-3fbe-705a-a9d2-c0d6e6d91e4e", "title": "‘My dad died hiding a gambling addiction and homelessness. 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It’s driving homeless people to hospital instead", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/homelessness-hospital-council-support-london/", "published_at": "2026-09-09T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df5a-742e-70ca-a713-1c1488916e26", "title": "The taskforce making music accessible for people with dementia: ‘It’s not all Vera Lynn’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/dementia-music-taskforce/", "published_at": "2026-09-08T18:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df5a-742e-70ca-a713-1c1488bbe135", "title": "‘Andy Burnham must not repeat the mistakes of the past on homelessness’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/letters-andy-burnham-rough-sleeping/", "published_at": "2026-09-08T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df5a-742e-70ca-a713-1c1489af6e9e", "title": "Inside the charity warehouse offering thousands of families a cost of living lifeline every month", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/the-brick-wigan-charity-cost-of-living-multibank/", "published_at": "2026-09-08T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df5a-742e-70ca-a713-1c148a743638", "title": "The failure to build enough social housing is leaving families £8,000 a year worse off", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/social-housing-renting-jrf-loughborough/", "published_at": "2026-09-07T23:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df5a-742e-70ca-a713-1c148b1ef6d3", "title": "A future without worry, for generations to come", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/money/a-future-without-worry-for-generations-to-come-advertorial/", "published_at": "2026-09-07T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df5a-742e-70ca-a713-1c148c0e6ae3", "title": "The Conservatives want to cut housing benefit to fund defence spending. But will it work?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/conservatives-defence-spending-housing-benefit-lha/", "published_at": "2026-09-07T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99b-7150-abc5-74383eb7e858", "title": "See the protest art hitting London’s streets to mark Big Issue’s 35th birthday", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/art/big-issue-at-35-paste-present-future/", "published_at": "2026-09-07T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba40290d85", "title": "Do food banks need to exist until we end hunger? We’d rather live in a Food Bank Free Britain", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/food-bank-free-britain/", "published_at": "2026-09-07T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba40e2c2de", "title": "‘I was diagnosed with a rare dementia that affects my vision. I turned it into an art project’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/rare-dementia-vision-art-photography-project/", "published_at": "2026-09-06T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba415d71f3", "title": "Meet the people with Alzheimer’s and their families coming together in a dementia run club", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/people-alzheimers-society-families-dementia-run-club/", "published_at": "2026-09-05T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba424fd388", "title": "Researchers are doing incredible work to find a cure for dementia – but more funding is vital", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/alzheimers-research-dementia-cure-funding/", "published_at": "2026-09-05T03:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba428dccd4", "title": "Tony Christie: ‘I need an autocue now, but show me an artist my age that doesn’t!’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/tony-christie-dementia-interview/", "published_at": "2026-09-04T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba43288412", "title": "‘If I were PM I’d make dementia research a priority’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/julie-hayden-pm-for-the-pm-dementia/", "published_at": "2026-09-04T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba43f69fac", "title": "David Baddiel: ‘My worst moment was telling my dad my mum died. I had to tell him again and again’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/david-baddiel-worst-moment-dementia-dad-interview-alzheimers-society/", "published_at": "2026-09-04T03:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba44d3d78d", "title": "Hundreds of ex-rugby players with brain injury demand answers: ‘One hit could kill them’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/rugby-players-brain-injury-dementia-demand-answers/", "published_at": "2026-09-04T03:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df85-b99c-726f-b7b0-a0ba44ffb88d", "title": "Gloria Steinem and the ‘long, long, long’ feminist revolution", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/gloria-steinem-and-the-long-revolution/", "published_at": "2026-09-03T11:56:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e632b7724a", "title": "‘I was diagnosed with dementia almost a decade ago but life is for the living. You can’t hold back’ ", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/diagnosed-dementia-life-living-cant-hold-back/", "published_at": "2026-09-03T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e633336fa4", "title": "We are paying for the climate crisis with lives and homes. The Nepal-Tibet floods must spark action", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/nepal-tibet-floods-climate-crisis-lives-homes/", "published_at": "2026-09-03T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e633a92fec", "title": "‘I’ve been axe throwing and tractor riding since being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s’ ", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/ive-been-axe-throwing-and-tractor-riding-since-being-diagnosed-with-alzheimers/", "published_at": "2026-09-03T03:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e633fe58f1", "title": "Over a million workers ‘trapped in poverty’ as they lose nearly £500 a month in cancelled shifts", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/insecure-work-living-wage-foundation/", "published_at": "2026-09-02T23:01:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e63466a0cf", "title": "Meet the people raising awareness of dementia in the South Asian community", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/meet-the-people-raising-awareness-of-dementia-in-the-south-asian-community/", "published_at": "2026-09-02T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e634beec0f", "title": "I took a walk where I grew up in London. I saw how gentrification has damaged the community", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/gentrification-london-poverty-john-bird/", "published_at": "2026-09-02T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e6351e4a8b", "title": "Are Andy Burnham’s affordable homes plans a ‘council housing revolution’ or a ‘massive backtrack’?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/andy-burnhams-council-housing-plans-analysed/", "published_at": "2026-09-02T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e6359458d8", "title": "Meet Wispy, the AI assistant helping people with dementia live independently", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/ai-assistant-dementia/", "published_at": "2026-09-02T03:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e635d08d75", "title": "If tech giants want to build data centres, make them give something back to society", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/letters/data-centres-tech-giants-ai-letters/", "published_at": "2026-09-01T11:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df91-300b-733a-a4a9-10e636aaace1", "title": "It’s time we stopped having to face up to a SLAPP", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/its-time-we-stopped-having-to-face-up-to-a-slapp/", "published_at": "2026-09-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130315bae36f", "title": "Want to help the families of people with dementia? Here’s what to do", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/want-to-help-the-families-of-people-with-dementia-heres-what-to-do/", "published_at": "2026-09-01T03:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130315c4f658", "title": "The Odyssey star Himesh Patel: ‘Child poverty is inexcusable in a country such as ours’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/the-odyssey-star-himesh-patel-child-poverty/", "published_at": "2026-08-31T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130316bd5932", "title": "Paul Heaton: ‘My mum liked me sticking fingers up at the world’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/paul-heaton-my-mum-liked-me-sticking-fingers-up-at-the-world/", "published_at": "2026-08-31T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130316bd6c9d", "title": "Our dementia research is bringing new hope for a cure – and already changing lives", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/health/our-dementia-research-is-bringing-new-hope-for-a-cure-advertorial/", "published_at": "2026-08-31T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-1303173e50d7", "title": "Bonnie Oddie: ‘There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/theatre/bonnie-oddie-theres-no-one-size-fits-all-answer-to-assisted-dying/", "published_at": "2026-08-31T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130317d0a6c2", "title": "Formula E and giffgaff give Big Issue Recruit candidates a taste of the workplace: ‘It was amazing’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/life/it-was-amazing-formula-e-and-giffgaff-gave-big-issue-recruit-candidates-a-taste-of-the-workplace/", "published_at": "2026-08-31T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130317d65e0e", "title": "Kevin Rowland: ‘The way Irish people were portrayed in England was just crazy’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/kevin-rowland-interview-dexys-midnight-runners/", "published_at": "2026-08-30T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130318c8bf02", "title": "Darren McGarvey: ‘If I were prime minister I’d be pranking Tommy Robinson on the phone’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/darren-mcgarvey-pm-for-the-pm/", "published_at": "2026-08-29T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130319560c0e", "title": "Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/theatre/actor-shonagh-marie-care/", "published_at": "2026-08-28T18:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0df98-a432-725c-8538-130319cda151", "title": "Natalie Imbruglia: ‘Becoming a star is not going to feel the way you think it’s going to feel’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/natalie-imbruglia-letter-to-my-younger-self/", "published_at": "2026-08-28T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6b487d74", "title": "I was homeless as a child. I know what Andy Burnham needs to do to end rough sleeping for good", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/danny-beales-homelessness-andy-burnham/", "published_at": "2026-08-28T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6c020731", "title": "It’s 10 years since BHS folded. How do we put the spark back into the British high street?", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/bhs-10-years-british-high-street/", "published_at": "2026-08-28T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6c80d16a", "title": "Wrestling legend Mick Foley: ‘You need to tell people you love them before it’s too late’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/mick-foley-wwe-wrestling-letter-to-my-younger-self/", "published_at": "2026-08-27T18:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6d795657", "title": "NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: ‘This is not a turning point’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/neet-youth-unemployment-april-june-2026/", "published_at": "2026-08-27T11:52:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6d8cabfb", "title": "Why building homes around railway stations is ‘far from an assault on the countryside’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/building-homes-around-railway-stations-russell-curtis/", "published_at": "2026-08-27T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6e253855", "title": "‘Disabled people are having to work 10 times harder to live their life and pursue their dreams’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/employment/bella-roberts-disabled-people-jobs-film-tv/", "published_at": "2026-08-27T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6e92ec4b", "title": "Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? ", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/closed-pub-housing-crisis-the-brick-wigan/", "published_at": "2026-08-27T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f6f8c7385", "title": "Shane Torres: ‘My dad was homeless. It’s sobering to see your model of a man failing completely’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/culture/shane-torres-comedian-homeless/", "published_at": "2026-08-26T18:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f706ab029", "title": "Energy bills to rise to highest level in three years leaving households facing ‘brutal winter’", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/energy-bills-rise-october-2026/", "published_at": "2026-08-26T12:01:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0dfa1-5be1-732a-ae18-d38f71044626", "title": "Ending rough sleeping is the goal, but taking bars off benches is a good start", "url": "https://www.bigissue.com/opinion/hostile-architecture-john-bird/", "published_at": "2026-08-26T06:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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A new Bhopal disaster play asks whose lives are considered expendable in the pursuit of profit?original ↗
26 Sept 2026
Screenwriter Andrew Davies: ‘I didn’t mind people saying I sexed up Pride & Prejudice’original ↗
25 Sept 2026
Will chancellor John Healey unfreeze local housing allowance at the autumn budget?original ↗
25 Sept 2026
How a British man was pulled into modern slavery working at a food court in the heart of Londonoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Women can’t be left out in the cold if we are to end rough sleepingoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Are you paying enough council tax? How Londoners could be underpaying property taxes by £3.1bnoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
It’s easier than ever to connect with people from across the world. So why are we so lonely?original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard: ‘I realised I could work on behalf of marginalised people’original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Veteran and double amputee Rick Clement turns to YouTube to open up countryside to wheelchair usersoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Influencers are using smart glasses to film homeless people. It’s exploiting people for viewsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Hedge funds want to take control of Thames Water. What could it mean for bills?original ↗
22 Sept 2026
What are data centres? And do we even need them?original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Dealing with the cost of living is essential to help young people out of Britain’s NEETs crisisoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026
‘I still have concerns about the Timms Review of PIP. Will mental health be protected?’original ↗
22 Sept 2026
AI is increasingly being used on listings for homes to rent. Is it acceptable or misleading?original ↗
21 Sept 2026
Ilkeston Big Issue vendor James Allerton: ‘My dog is like a son to me’original ↗
21 Sept 2026
The AI-induced apocalypse could be nearing. Why not chat to a Big Issue vendor instead of a bot?original ↗
21 Sept 2026
‘Without humanitarian aid, there is no life in Gaza. We have to hope tomorrow will be better’original ↗
20 Sept 2026
Don’t be fooled: reviving the Help to Buy scheme won’t make housing more affordable in 2026original ↗
19 Sept 2026
Big Issue founder leads call for a national empty homes strategy: ‘A completely wasted resource’original ↗
19 Sept 2026
Why the music you love listening to right now could be a dementia lifeline in the futureoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Lisa Maffia: ‘To talk about music in the 90s you had to strip to your underwear. I wish I hadn’t’original ↗
18 Sept 2026
How Big Issue came up from the streets, 35 years on: ‘It was the most chaotic, beautiful madness’ original ↗
18 Sept 2026
It has taken years to regulate bailiffs. Stopping intimidation is as important as recovering debtoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Council spending on housing homeless families in England at almost £3bn a year: ‘It’s crippling’original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Labour is facing calls to means-test disability benefit PIP. Here’s why it would push up povertyoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
What it’s like to sell the Big Issue magazine for 35 years: ‘We’re part of a British institution’original ↗
17 Sept 2026
‘I grew up in social housing and now I’m going to Harvard. It’s given me drive to change the world’original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Why music megastar Bryan Adams became a Big Issue Ambassador: ‘Big kudos for everything you do’original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Rents in the UK are at record highs. Will they keep going up?original ↗
16 Sept 2026
How a Big Issue vendor overcame homelessness to play hockey for England: ‘It means everything’original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Big Issue at 35: How prime ministers have supported Big Issue vendorsoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
People could face an ‘impossible winter’ with energy bills forecast to rise by 25% in Januaryoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
‘So many of the problems we face today are a result of Right to Buy’original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Rents are set to rise 5% by the end of 2026. Here’s what it could mean for homelessnessoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
I’m a KFC youth worker. Young people aren’t a lost cause – we’re failing them at the first hurdleoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
As Big Issue turns 35, our mission to terminate homelessness is unchangedoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Andy Burnham exclusive on rough sleeping plan: ‘It’s not just a one-off thing for Christmas’original ↗
13 Sept 2026
Bryan Adams named as Big Issue ambassador: ‘Keep fighting the fight’original ↗
13 Sept 2026
I have seen the future. People are paid a basic income to escape ‘labourism’original ↗
13 Sept 2026
My daughter collapsed and died before my eyes. I learned British Sign Language to process my grieforiginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
More children will get free school meals this school year. Here’s what you need to knoworiginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
What are Andy Burnham’s cost of living plans and what will they mean for you?original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Kelly Macdonald: ‘We went to militant demonstrations. I still know all my anti-poll tax songs’original ↗
11 Sept 2026
What could be in chancellor John Healey’s autumn budget and what could it mean for you?original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Meet the photographer capturing UK homelessness – who became homeless himselforiginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
How Big Issue saved vendor Robin Price’s life as magazine turns 35: ‘Without them, I’d be dead’original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Timms Review recommends changes to ‘dehumanising’ PIP assessment processoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
I spent 60 hours sat in a bathtub in Leeds to show how my soap company can tackle addictionoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
‘My dad died hiding a gambling addiction and homelessness. I wish he had let us help him’original ↗
10 Sept 2026
British public don’t back cuts to disability benefits – even Reform and Tory votersoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
How your first job can determine what you earn for the rest of your careeroriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
A message to you, Andy: the nation needs you to keep your word on rough sleepingoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
London’s walk-in homelessness services are closing. It’s driving homeless people to hospital insteadoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
The taskforce making music accessible for people with dementia: ‘It’s not all Vera Lynn’original ↗
8 Sept 2026
‘Andy Burnham must not repeat the mistakes of the past on homelessness’original ↗
8 Sept 2026
Inside the charity warehouse offering thousands of families a cost of living lifeline every monthoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
The failure to build enough social housing is leaving families £8,000 a year worse offoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
A future without worry, for generations to comeoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
The Conservatives want to cut housing benefit to fund defence spending. But will it work?original ↗
7 Sept 2026
See the protest art hitting London’s streets to mark Big Issue’s 35th birthdayoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
Do food banks need to exist until we end hunger? We’d rather live in a Food Bank Free Britainoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2026
‘I was diagnosed with a rare dementia that affects my vision. I turned it into an art project’original ↗
6 Sept 2026
Meet the people with Alzheimer’s and their families coming together in a dementia run cluboriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Researchers are doing incredible work to find a cure for dementia – but more funding is vitaloriginal ↗
5 Sept 2026
Tony Christie: ‘I need an autocue now, but show me an artist my age that doesn’t!’original ↗
4 Sept 2026
‘If I were PM I’d make dementia research a priority’original ↗
4 Sept 2026
David Baddiel: ‘My worst moment was telling my dad my mum died. I had to tell him again and again’original ↗
4 Sept 2026
Hundreds of ex-rugby players with brain injury demand answers: ‘One hit could kill them’original ↗
4 Sept 2026
Gloria Steinem and the ‘long, long, long’ feminist revolutionoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
‘I was diagnosed with dementia almost a decade ago but life is for the living. You can’t hold back’ original ↗
3 Sept 2026
We are paying for the climate crisis with lives and homes. The Nepal-Tibet floods must spark actionoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
‘I’ve been axe throwing and tractor riding since being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s’ original ↗
3 Sept 2026
Over a million workers ‘trapped in poverty’ as they lose nearly £500 a month in cancelled shiftsoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Meet the people raising awareness of dementia in the South Asian communityoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
I took a walk where I grew up in London. I saw how gentrification has damaged the communityoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
Are Andy Burnham’s affordable homes plans a ‘council housing revolution’ or a ‘massive backtrack’?original ↗
2 Sept 2026
Meet Wispy, the AI assistant helping people with dementia live independentlyoriginal ↗
2 Sept 2026
If tech giants want to build data centres, make them give something back to societyoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
It’s time we stopped having to face up to a SLAPPoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
Want to help the families of people with dementia? Here’s what to dooriginal ↗
1 Sept 2026
The Odyssey star Himesh Patel: ‘Child poverty is inexcusable in a country such as ours’original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Paul Heaton: ‘My mum liked me sticking fingers up at the world’original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Our dementia research is bringing new hope for a cure – and already changing livesoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2026
Bonnie Oddie: ‘There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to assisted dying’original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Formula E and giffgaff give Big Issue Recruit candidates a taste of the workplace: ‘It was amazing’original ↗
31 Aug 2026
Kevin Rowland: ‘The way Irish people were portrayed in England was just crazy’original ↗
30 Aug 2026
Darren McGarvey: ‘If I were prime minister I’d be pranking Tommy Robinson on the phone’original ↗
29 Aug 2026
Actor Shonagh Marie: ‘Coming into care as a teenager was a whole different kind of trauma’original ↗
28 Aug 2026
Natalie Imbruglia: ‘Becoming a star is not going to feel the way you think it’s going to feel’original ↗
28 Aug 2026
I was homeless as a child. I know what Andy Burnham needs to do to end rough sleeping for goodoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
It’s 10 years since BHS folded. How do we put the spark back into the British high street?original ↗
28 Aug 2026
Wrestling legend Mick Foley: ‘You need to tell people you love them before it’s too late’original ↗
27 Aug 2026
NEET numbers fall but young people still face jobs crisis: ‘This is not a turning point’original ↗
27 Aug 2026
Why building homes around railway stations is ‘far from an assault on the countryside’original ↗
27 Aug 2026
‘Disabled people are having to work 10 times harder to live their life and pursue their dreams’original ↗
27 Aug 2026
Can transforming closed pubs into homes offer a solution to the housing crisis? original ↗
27 Aug 2026
Shane Torres: ‘My dad was homeless. It’s sobering to see your model of a man failing completely’original ↗
26 Aug 2026
Energy bills to rise to highest level in three years leaving households facing ‘brutal winter’original ↗
26 Aug 2026
Ending rough sleeping is the goal, but taking bars off benches is a good startoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2026
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