Asylum protests vs the local park run. @lgeraghty23.bsky.social runs the numbers for the Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Of all the things related to immigration I have been asked to comment on, this by @lgeraghty23.bsky.social for the @bigissue.com was a strange, but fun, one. How is this even a debate? Of course Superman is an immigrant. He is the very definition of one. www.bigissue.com/culture/film...

Big Issue is coming to Cardiff – and we want to hear from YOU! 🗓 12–14 May 📍 PWSH Centre, Queen St 🕙 10am–5pm Our journalists are in town to listen, report & connect. Got a story? Drop in and chat to us; no appointments necessary. Let’s shape the news together. Cardiff, we’re all ears. 👂

How did we get from reducing rough sleeping to virtually zero at the start of the Covid lockdown to the record-breaking numbers on the streets today? I analysed the Everyone In scheme's mixed legacy, five years on buff.ly/GtgJI3J

Excellent piece in the @bigissue.com by @lgeraghty23.bsky.social on the conclusions of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on the UK. The article begins with social security, and goes on to cover a range of recommendations on housing, wages, work, poverty reduction & measurement

🚨 LATEST FIGURES: 📊 The number of people rough sleeping in England has skyrocketed by 20% in just a year. An estimated 4,667 people were homeless on the streets on a single night in autumn 2024. 📈 The rise is the third consecutive year in which rough sleeping has increased. bit.ly/4kkuz0y

Inside Ukraine's fight against homelessness after three years of bloody war: 'Peace is hard to imagine'

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban: 'This is frightening'

Academics and campaigners have claimed a new basic income pilot in Greater Manchester could “end absolute poverty” in the city region, starting with people experiencing homelessness – if it gets the green light from mayor Andy Burnham. 🚦 Find out more. ⬇️ https://bit.ly/3EwrI4q

Finland has been held up as an international example to follow in tackling homelessness but the Scandinavian country has just reported its first rising numbers in 11 years. 📈 @lgeraghty23.bsky.social reports. ⬇️ www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

🚨 Breaking: Rough sleeping in London 'as bad as it’s been’ but Sadiq Khan warns things won't improve until 2026 www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

This week's issue is out now! 📰 Inside: 💯 We introduce our Top 100 Changemakers for 2025, celebrating people and organisations who have focused not on themselves but on the rest of society, as voted for by YOU Find out more ▶️ https://bit.ly/4h8iYzI

agdq’s crazy taxi run has a mosh pit

I visited Glasgow's new safer drugs consumption facility, The Thistle, ahead of its long awaited opening:

hello 👋 looking to hear from people working on any sweet photo or art projects in the areas of: social justice and activism; housing and homelessness; nature and climate change; immigration; health; human rights; other cool stuff is this you? hit me up on ryan dot butcher at big issue dot com

Homeless woman reunites with couple who 'changed her life' when they gave her a bed for the night

I investigated what life is like for the factory workers across the world who are forced to toil in dangerous conditions for low pay... While your children open Christmas gifts, millions around the world are working in factories www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

This is the reality of life in temporary accommodation at Christmas: 'Where would we put a tree?'

This week’s Big Issue is out now! 📰 Inside: 👇 💬 Keir Starmer’s exclusive Christmas message 👩‍🏫 Will you guide my clay tonight? Wallace & Gromit is back 🎥 Nicola Coughlan speaks exclusively to Big Issue ahead of her Doctor Who debut on Christmas Day Find out more. ⬇️ www.bigissue.com/behind-the-s...

“It’s unimaginable that more than 350,000 will spend this winter homeless.” 🎄 Shelter estimates 354,000 people will spend the festive session homeless in England – a number that has surged by 14% in the last year alone. 📈 This figure includes 161,500 children. ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4gelAvB

The Wrong Tauros

"We are athletes. We are hungry and we have goals. I’m just one of the refugees around the world and if I can do it, many others can” Great interview from @isabellamcrae.bsky.social on the woman behind one of the year's greatest sporting achievements

Before you can tackle a problem, you must first learn the scale of the issue. That’s why it is vital that we know the facts and figures about #homelessness. Here are the numbers you need to know: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

I had the enormous pleasure of meeting Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts, Call the Midwife, You...) this week. She was so kind, she offered me her scarf as I was cold. She's backing @trusselluk.bsky.social and calling for change so fewer people need food banks to survive www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Just the 8.7% rise in rents in the year up to October. That's the 15th consecutive monthly rise above 8%. Rent rises are leaving wider inflation in the dust www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

DWP admits winter fuel payment cuts will plunge tens of thousands of pensioners into poverty www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Tfw you joined a gym three weeks ago

Child poverty is the big issue of our time. Every politician should be focused on ending it for good. I’m joining forces with @bigissue.bsky.social in calling for a POVERTY ZERO LAW - a statutory duty for every gov’t to set POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS. Support here👇🙏 act.newmode.net/action/big-i...

Something #Wicked this way comes... It's the latest Big Issue, out today! @bigissue.bsky.social

Finding Bluesky a bit like Labour's election victory in the summer. Not quite sure what the benefits are in the short-term but everything's a bit more civil and maybe that's enough for now

🚨 The total number of empty and second homes not in use stands at 998,784 — which is around one in every 25 homes across the country. 🏘️ That’s according to Empty Homes’ analysis of government council tax data. 📊 @lgeraghty23.bsky.social has the story. 👇 www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Big Issue people to follow, both colleagues and contributors. To be updated as we all slowly move over go.bsky.app/AzhztsB

NEW: Waiting times for Pension Credit claims have doubled in the space of just one month, amid fears the government can't process applications fast enough ahead of imminent cuts to winter fuel payments. By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

THREAD: here’s five things you should read from @bigissue.bsky.social this week to help make a bit of sense of the world first up. here’s how mortgage rates, house prices and sky-high rents predicted donald trump’s election victory, by @lgeraghty23.bsky.social 👇 www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

I've been at @bigissue.bsky.social today covering the latest eviction figures, which revealed that Section 21 "no-fault" eviction claims are at their highest level in eight years Campaigners called no-fault evictions a "gross injustice" that leave renters "living in fear"

Big Issue founder storms out of 'farce' rough sleeping inquiry: 'I've heard this for 30 years' www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Joined an app that feels like old Twitter. Classic 2016 Overwatch returned this week. Trump’s back in the White House. Did we just delete eight years?