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‘My son lives without any joy’: How DWP’s two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis
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Mo Gilligan on the motivational effect of Nike Air Max trainers
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Tom Grennan on faith, helping people and paying his parents’ mortgage with Gillette song money
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Hundreds of thousands of universal credit claimants forced into destitution by DWP ‘deductions’
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Revealed: Housing gentrification ‘costing low-income Londoners £80 a week’
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Letters: There’s no way I’ll claim pension credit – I refuse to be insulted by benefit assessors
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Get ready, Newcastle: the Big Issue Community Roadshow is coming to town
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Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Nominate a group or person making the world a better place
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Section 8 eviction notice: Everything you need to know
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Inside the Big Issue: Sir Ian McKellen on recovery, rights and finding fulfilment
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Letters: Water bosses should be made to do Cersei’s ‘walk of shame’ from Game of Thrones
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‘It was like the place was waiting for me’: Three Big Issue vendors went to the Lake District – and were transformed
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Big Issue vendors left feeling anxious, frightened and ‘scared to go out’ in wake of UK riots
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How running with my son taught me that life really isn’t a race
‘My son lives without any joy’: How DWP’s two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis
‘My son lives without any joy’: How DWP’s two-child benefit limit is punishing children in crisis
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Rachel Reeves must put money where her mouth is and end austerity’s grip on women in autumn budget
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I’ve never known a government to renege on election promises as quickly as this one
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Top 5 spooky books for Halloween, chosen by children’s author Swapna Haddow
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Mo Gilligan on the motivational effect of Nike Air Max trainers
Mo Gilligan on the motivational effect of Nike Air Max trainers
Tom Grennan on faith, helping people and paying his parents’ mortgage with Gillette song money
Tom Grennan on faith, helping people and paying his parents’ mortgage with Gillette song money
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Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody: ‘I’d tell my younger self to just be happier’
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The Chase star Paul Sinha on his Parkinson’s battle: ‘I’ve got a life to live’
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Domestic abuse soars by 38% when England lose. This Euros, we need change
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Dear students: Here’s how to get smart about money and save yourself stress later on
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