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Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'
Morteza Ehsani, Sammi Ghaderi and Navid Hjyani.
Asylum seekers

Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'

The Big Issue speaks to four people supported by charity Oasis about life as an asylum seeker or refugee in Wales – from the Welsh people's kindness to their fears for the future
Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK
Asylum seekers

Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK

'There's no magic bullet': The battle to keep Cardiff's vital music scene from dying out
Grassroots music venues

'There's no magic bullet': The battle to keep Cardiff's vital music scene from dying out

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts
Nature

How a Manchester community welcomed the return of the swifts

Patients are dying and facing 'horrible tragedies' due to Manchester's mental health care crisis, staff say
Mental health

Patients are dying and facing 'horrible tragedies' due to Manchester's mental health care crisis, staff say

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Ely riots, two years on: A Cardiff community pulling itself back together holds lessons for Britain
Ely riots

Ely riots, two years on: A Cardiff community pulling itself back together holds lessons for Britain

Disabled protesters say they'll stop Labour's benefit cuts – or die trying: 'I will fight my heart out'
Protesters in Cardiff outside their local MP's office with a sign saying 'welfare not warfare'
Disability benefits

Disabled protesters say they'll stop Labour's benefit cuts – or die trying: 'I will fight my heart out'

I became an actor after 30 years as a Royal Marine. Here's what people need to know about veterans
Sunray: Fallen Soldier film starring Tip Cullen
Tip Cullen

I became an actor after 30 years as a Royal Marine. Here's what people need to know about veterans

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty
Food

How bringing back Churchill's wartime canteen culture could help tackle food poverty

Why does everyone keep getting the white working class wrong?
Working class

Why does everyone keep getting the white working class wrong?

Self Esteem and Julie Hesmondhalgh on self-doubt, sisterhood and fighting back in dark times
Exclusive

Self Esteem and Julie Hesmondhalgh on self-doubt, sisterhood and fighting back in dark times

LGBTQ+ inclusion doesn't just benefit certain Brits – it helps all of us
pride flags being waved at a Pride celebration
Dominic Arnall

LGBTQ+ inclusion doesn't just benefit certain Brits – it helps all of us

Inside Public Record, a joyful celebration of the sound of Sunderland: 'We're all in it together'
Ross Millard of The Futureheads and Peter and David Brewis of Field Music in rehearsals for Public Record in Sunderland. Image: Mark Savage
Sunderland

Inside Public Record, a joyful celebration of the sound of Sunderland: 'We're all in it together'

Joe Lycett: 'Let's fix things in our backyard before we try and fix the world'
TV

Joe Lycett: 'Let's fix things in our backyard before we try and fix the world'

I'm an aid worker in Myanmar. The sight of bodies being pulled from rubble will stay with me forever
Haider Yaqub

I'm an aid worker in Myanmar. The sight of bodies being pulled from rubble will stay with me forever

Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening
St Georges Church on the corner of Colegate and Magdalen Street in the city of Norwich, Norfolk captured on a dull and wet Sunday.
Big Grow

Big Issue's new Big Grow initiative set to transform communities through urban gardening

'Neighbours are more trusted than government': When crisis hits, communities are saving themselves
A person in a door receives a package of toilet roll from a person in a high-vis jacket
Community

'Neighbours are more trusted than government': When crisis hits, communities are saving themselves

Football legend David James: 'I had difficult moments at every club, not just Liverpool'
Letter To My Younger Self

Football legend David James: 'I had difficult moments at every club, not just Liverpool'

Communities that build solar panels and wind farms should get cheaper bills, says Labour minister
Energy minister Michael Shanks
Community energy

Communities that build solar panels and wind farms should get cheaper bills, says Labour minister

Covid got us all in mutual aid groups. Five years on, what happened to the lockdown anarchists?
A group of people in reflective vests stand by a van
Five years since the pandemic

Covid got us all in mutual aid groups. Five years on, what happened to the lockdown anarchists?

Alan Moore salutes the 'ramshackle institution' that changed his life
10Foot Takeover

Alan Moore salutes the 'ramshackle institution' that changed his life

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Labour's billion pound gamble: Can community energy deliver the affordable power the UK needs?
A person on a bile rides down a street
Community energy

Labour's billion pound gamble: Can community energy deliver the affordable power the UK needs?

Why you should make Resonance FM the background noise to your life
10Foot Takeover

Why you should make Resonance FM the background noise to your life

'We don't live single issue lives': This exhibition is celebrating trans joy amid the culture wars
Trans rights

'We don't live single issue lives': This exhibition is celebrating trans joy amid the culture wars

'We want people to think it could be their kid': Philip Barantini on incels, rage and new drama Adolescence
TV

'We want people to think it could be their kid': Philip Barantini on incels, rage and new drama Adolescence

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