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Supermarket dominance is disastrous for food prices, public health and the planet
supermarket aisle
Carina Millstone

Supermarket dominance is disastrous for food prices, public health and the planet

Carina Millstone, executive director at Foodrise, writes about how there is a better alternative to supermarkets having a near monopoly over grocery sales in Britain
Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here's how
a tent on the street
Lauren Aronin

Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here's how

Why we need a new commission on the future of multicultural Britain
image of union jacks
Kieran Connell

Why we need a new commission on the future of multicultural Britain

How did net zero get so politically toxic?
Net Zero

How did net zero get so politically toxic?

There's no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?
Trust

There's no trust left in the world. How can we get it back?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025
a homeless man in hot weather
Homelessness

Homeless people needed protecting from hot weather more than ever before in 2025

Labour wants to ban fracking – while Reform wants to 'drill baby drill'. What does it mean for you?
fracking

Labour wants to ban fracking – while Reform wants to 'drill baby drill'. What does it mean for you?

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack
Nigel Farage
Stephen Walcott

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack

Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK
Anti Racist Cumbria - three people holding hands and skipping
Racism

Inside the mission to make Cumbria the first anti-racist county in the UK

Black History Month is even more important in frightening times of racist violence
Civil rights march on Washington D.C. in 1963 by photographer Warren K. Leffler.
Dahaba Ali Hussen

Black History Month is even more important in frightening times of racist violence

Digital ID cards aren't progressive – they're tools of state control
Munya Radzi

Digital ID cards aren't progressive – they're tools of state control

Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?
In the aisles of a British supermarket.
Food

Supermarkets have a near monopoly on British food. Is it time for change?

Queer history goes back centuries – even the Georgians questioned their gender and sexuality
LGBTQ+

Queer history goes back centuries – even the Georgians questioned their gender and sexuality

Big Thief: 'There's much more to humanity than just this awfulness'
Music

Big Thief: 'There's much more to humanity than just this awfulness'

How the criminal justice system is setting people up to fail
Campbell Robb

How the criminal justice system is setting people up to fail

Is Britain far right?
Far right

Is Britain far right?

Cranhill Arts Project: Meet the Glasgow community group that painted itself a better future
Art

Cranhill Arts Project: Meet the Glasgow community group that painted itself a better future

Reform UK's plan to ban benefits for migrants is 'an attack on the backbone of this country'
Reform UK

Reform UK's plan to ban benefits for migrants is 'an attack on the backbone of this country'

How government inaction is radicalising Britain
John Bird

How government inaction is radicalising Britain

I wish people like Tommy Robinson could see what life in asylum accommodation is really like
Osman

I wish people like Tommy Robinson could see what life in asylum accommodation is really like

Tragic death of a Blackpool man sleeping in a tent dragged into asylum hotel row: 'It's entirely wrong'
Blackpool
Homelessness

Tragic death of a Blackpool man sleeping in a tent dragged into asylum hotel row: 'It's entirely wrong'

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Was Margaret Thatcher right to say 'there's no such thing as society'? It's complicated
Margaret Thatcher
Society

Was Margaret Thatcher right to say 'there's no such thing as society'? It's complicated

Your child could be the next Armand Duplantis. But how would you ever know?
Paul McNamee

Your child could be the next Armand Duplantis. But how would you ever know?

Oxford Street will go car-free for one day. We should pedestrianise central London all-year-round
Oxford Street

Oxford Street will go car-free for one day. We should pedestrianise central London all-year-round

We stand against the far-right and the super-rich to stop Britain becoming Elon Musk's playground
Make Them Pay protest logo
Izzie McIntosh

We stand against the far-right and the super-rich to stop Britain becoming Elon Musk's playground