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Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Learning and employment
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Learning and employment

Careers advice, training and debt support is being made available to those in need
It's 1,000 days since Vagrancy Act was repealed – so why are rough sleepers still criminalised?
a person rough sleeping
Rough sleeping

It's 1,000 days since Vagrancy Act was repealed – so why are rough sleepers still criminalised?

Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill
dwp's liz kendall
Disability benefits

Labour doubles down on slashing billions from DWP's disability benefits bill

DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules
Disability benefits

DWP's 'misleading and unfair' consultation on disability benefit reforms unlawful, High Court rules

Calling MPs of all stripes: Our planet is counting on your vote on the Climate and Nature Bill
Roz Savage MP

Calling MPs of all stripes: Our planet is counting on your vote on the Climate and Nature Bill

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Meet the 'activist lawyer' who fought for justice for a toddler who died from damp and mould
Awaab's Law lawyer Christian Weaver
Awaab's law

Meet the 'activist lawyer' who fought for justice for a toddler who died from damp and mould

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here's how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Sairah Javed

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here's how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal

Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people's homes and using them as drug dens
police on patrol
Crime

Criminal gangs are taking control of vulnerable people's homes and using them as drug dens

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here's why
a man stands on a busy street in London and checks his phone
Legal aid

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here's why

Yes, Labour's workers' rights bill is an upgrade. But the UK still has a lot of catching up to do
A health worker wearing PPE
Tony Dobbins

Yes, Labour's workers' rights bill is an upgrade. But the UK still has a lot of catching up to do

How to get help as an asylum seeker if you can't find legal aid
A man holding a pan writes on paper
Legal aid

How to get help as an asylum seeker if you can't find legal aid

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick
a man with a backpack leans against a lamppost
Social Justice

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick

Prisons are full to bursting – and the UK riots have thrown their usefulness back in the spotlight
Demonstrators in Victoria square in Bolton
Ian Acheson

Prisons are full to bursting – and the UK riots have thrown their usefulness back in the spotlight

Employees working through sickness is costing UK businesses billions, think tank says
Sick leave

Employees working through sickness is costing UK businesses billions, think tank says

'I felt intimidated': Disabled people feel shut out of playing and watching sport, report finds
mary on a climbing wall
Disability rights

'I felt intimidated': Disabled people feel shut out of playing and watching sport, report finds

Gen Z want to buy houses, smoke weed and do crimes, report finds. What does this mean for UK's future?
Generation Z

Gen Z want to buy houses, smoke weed and do crimes, report finds. What does this mean for UK's future?

What UK can learn from Portugal's drug decriminalisation success
Black and white pic of discarded hypodermic needle
Drugs

What UK can learn from Portugal's drug decriminalisation success

UK government may have broken law over sewage pumping. Could this be a 'turning point'?
Water pollution

UK government may have broken law over sewage pumping. Could this be a 'turning point'?

What are my rights if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?
energy bills
Energy bills

What are my rights if I can't afford to pay my energy bills?

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Barrister Sam Fowles: Beware the authoritarians stealing our democracy
Illustration: Sunak and Truss whackamole
Books

Barrister Sam Fowles: Beware the authoritarians stealing our democracy

I was an Old Bailey judge. Here's what really goes on in court
Books

I was an Old Bailey judge. Here's what really goes on in court

Early 'pills by post' abortions service could be made permanent by MPs
Health

Early 'pills by post' abortions service could be made permanent by MPs

Stonewall calls ‘gay cake’ court loss ‘a backwards step for equality’
LGBTQ+

Stonewall calls ‘gay cake’ court loss ‘a backwards step for equality’