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BrewDog: How the beer brand lost its head
Business

BrewDog: How the beer brand lost its head

Brewdog lost its B Corp status just one year after certification. That decision was a portent of things to come
Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing?
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood
social housing

Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing?

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain
a British Muslim family breaking their fast during Ramadan
Cost of living

Striking photos capture British Muslim families breaking fast during Ramadan in food bank Britain

Youth job grants: Will paying companies £3,000 to hire jobless youngsters fix youth unemployment?
Youth unemployment

Youth job grants: Will paying companies £3,000 to hire jobless youngsters fix youth unemployment?

Care leavers were given £2,000 to spend however they wanted. Here's what happened next
Homelessness

Care leavers were given £2,000 to spend however they wanted. Here's what happened next

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Birmingham bin workers’ strike, one year on: Inside the forgotten neighbourhoods lined with rubbish
rubbish lines the streets in Birmingham with graffiti saying 'remember the poor' on a wall
Employment

Birmingham bin workers’ strike, one year on: Inside the forgotten neighbourhoods lined with rubbish

The Roundhouse's 'critically important' role in punk: From The Ramones to making change in 2026
The Roundhouse CEO and artistic director Marcus Davey
Changemakers 2026

The Roundhouse's 'critically important' role in punk: From The Ramones to making change in 2026

Finding a rented home ‘easier than it has been for six years’ despite landlord exodus fears
a hand putting a key into another hand
RENTING

Finding a rented home ‘easier than it has been for six years’ despite landlord exodus fears

Meet the community group taking on 'absentee landlords' to put empty building in hands of artists
A placard reading Bradford needs cash not cuts
Activism

Meet the community group taking on 'absentee landlords' to put empty building in hands of artists

Are universities really churning out 700,000 jobless graduates on benefits?
university graduates at graduation
graduates

Are universities really churning out 700,000 jobless graduates on benefits?

Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise: 'I hate living this way'
elderly woman washing food in tap water
Water

Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise: 'I hate living this way'

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2026
Homelessness

Homelessness facts and statistics: The numbers you need to know in 2026

More than 100 million children at risk in Middle East conflict, charity fears
War Child in Gaza
Middle East

More than 100 million children at risk in Middle East conflict, charity fears

Revealed: Homeless people offered chairs not beds by councils in extreme weather
a person sleeping rough in a doorway
Homelessness

Revealed: Homeless people offered chairs not beds by councils in extreme weather

What will the Middle East conflict mean for UK energy bills?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers the Spring Statement (HM Treasury/Flickr)
Energy bills

What will the Middle East conflict mean for UK energy bills?

'Shocking' number of homeless deaths in Scotland spark calls for action ahead of Holyrood elections
Stock image of tents on the side of a road
Homelessness

'Shocking' number of homeless deaths in Scotland spark calls for action ahead of Holyrood elections

Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment
Access to Work

Disabled journalist fears ‘secret cuts’ to Access to Work could force her out of employment

How Eastbourne became the face of England's temporary accommodation crisis
Eastbourne councillor Peter Diplock outside The Salvation Army
Homelessness

How Eastbourne became the face of England's temporary accommodation crisis

Reform UK says churches are being turned into mosques. Is it true?
An empty church
Reform UK

Reform UK says churches are being turned into mosques. Is it true?

I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life. You could do it too
Society

I shrank my own economy to live a less capitalist life. You could do it too

Kinship carers forced to turn to food banks after taking in vulnerable children
Sarah, a kinship carer who took in her two-year-old nephew.
Kinship carers

Kinship carers forced to turn to food banks after taking in vulnerable children

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Record-high number of people sleeping rough in England amid warning kids left homeless on streets
a homeless man sleeping rough
Homelessness

Record-high number of people sleeping rough in England amid warning kids left homeless on streets

Labour urged to come up with plan to fill 300,000 empty homes to tackle homelessness
empty homes in Bradford
Empty homes

Labour urged to come up with plan to fill 300,000 empty homes to tackle homelessness

Energy bills will fall in April. But will it be enough for people living in fuel poverty?
hob
Energy bills

Energy bills will fall in April. But will it be enough for people living in fuel poverty?

Reform plans to rip up Renters’ Rights Act after tenants wait years for no-fault evictions ban
Reform UK Richard Tice
RENTING

Reform plans to rip up Renters’ Rights Act after tenants wait years for no-fault evictions ban