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Mental Health

Reverend and the Makers release Samaritans charity single: 'You don't have to be on your own at Christmas'
Jon McClure from Reverend and the Makers
Music

Reverend and the Makers release Samaritans charity single: 'You don't have to be on your own at Christmas'

'We are breaking barriers': People facing mental health crisis need safe spaces and community
mental health
Jo Armstrong

'We are breaking barriers': People facing mental health crisis need safe spaces and community

Movember: Men being more attuned to their cars than their own bodies needs to change
Health

Movember: Men being more attuned to their cars than their own bodies needs to change

This Remembrance Day, let us remember the LGBTQ+ veterans dismissed and imprisoned
Craig Jones

This Remembrance Day, let us remember the LGBTQ+ veterans dismissed and imprisoned

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse
Dr Claire Ashley

Pushing mentally ill people from their hospital beds and into offices will only make things worse

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate
Mental health
Letters

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate

Universal credit top up of just £25 per week would 'benefit whole of society', study finds
dwp universal credit/ parent balancing baby and work
Universal credit

Universal credit top up of just £25 per week would 'benefit whole of society', study finds

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that
family at kenilworth castle, holding a pumpkin
Emma Revie and Nick Merriman

Children in poverty are missing out on memories in the school holidays. We want to change that

DWP wants to send job coaches into mental health hospitals. Here's why it's a 'dangerous' idea
Employment

DWP wants to send job coaches into mental health hospitals. Here's why it's a 'dangerous' idea

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

More than 1,400 people died while homeless in the UK in 2023: 'People are dying at terrifying rates'
A couple rough sleeping under a blanket in London
Homelessness

More than 1,400 people died while homeless in the UK in 2023: 'People are dying at terrifying rates'

Hunger and broken shoes: Why we need a more compassionate approach to council tax debt collection
debt worries
Emily Whitford

Hunger and broken shoes: Why we need a more compassionate approach to council tax debt collection

Mental health impact of debt and cost of living must stop being overlooked
benefits dwp/ piggy bank
Julie Bentley

Mental health impact of debt and cost of living must stop being overlooked

Author Matt Haig: 'I was a teenage shoplifter. In my foolish brain I was a kind of Robin Hood'
Matt Haig
Letter To My Younger Self

Author Matt Haig: 'I was a teenage shoplifter. In my foolish brain I was a kind of Robin Hood'

Starmer and Streeting have talked the talk on mental health support – now they must walk the walk
Labour minister for health, Wes Streeting
Oliver Chantler

Starmer and Streeting have talked the talk on mental health support – now they must walk the walk

Joker: Folie à Deux says nothing meaningful about living with mental illness
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck (aka Joker) and Lady Gaga as Harley ‘Lee’ Quinn in Folie à Deux
Film

Joker: Folie à Deux says nothing meaningful about living with mental illness

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Rising music star Henry Moodie: 'Andrew Tate shows how dangerous social media can be'
Henry Moodie
Music

Rising music star Henry Moodie: 'Andrew Tate shows how dangerous social media can be'

100 students die by suicide at university each year. These parents are fighting to change that
Mental health

100 students die by suicide at university each year. These parents are fighting to change that

My family has waited five years for an asylum decision. Here's how it strips your dignity
protesters hold two slogans saying 'no human is illegal'
Miguel

My family has waited five years for an asylum decision. Here's how it strips your dignity

Hundreds of thousands of universal credit claimants forced into destitution by DWP 'deductions'
dwp
Universal credit

Hundreds of thousands of universal credit claimants forced into destitution by DWP 'deductions'

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