Marilyn Monroe was born on 1 June 1926. One hundred years later, her face is everywhere: on posters, fashion campaigns, merchandise and in the work of artists who have never stopped returning to her ...

Homelessness has surged across England in recent years and Labour has promised a long-term strategy to tackle the issue. The long-awaited homelessness strategy – first promised in Labour’s 2024 ...

A coalition of charities is calling on the government's PIP review to end reassessments for people with terminal and ...

Millions of renters are being left waiting for letting agents to take action to fix emergency repairs – and it risks undermining the Renters’ Rights Act, Citizens Advice has warned. More than ...

How Green Hustle Festival in Nottingham revolution showed how hope, creativity, climate action and community can be nurtured ...

Keir Starmer tells Big Issue that the Renters’ Rights Act is exactly the kind of change he had hoped to be introduce as prime ...

Bee Mission installs beehives. They also cook up to 50 hot meals three times a week for people sleeping rough in Bournemouth.

Tory shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho said that the Tories would overturn “the de-facto ban on air conditioning”, But ...

Any new drama from Russell T Davies is big news. He’s one of the great writers of recent decades and his work demands to be watched and seen, listened to and heard. If anyone wants to make the case ...

Ife Ogunjobi was ten when he first picked up the trumpet. It was love at first note – but his neighbours were less impressed. “I was a kid, and my mum took me to a performance of Hugh Masekela, a ...

Pauline spent years worrying that her disability benefits would be seized. Then it happened. She had schizophrenia, diabetes, osteoporosis, a hiatus hernia and a permanently-damaged shoulder, but she ...

Privatisation has not only deepened inequality but has led basic human rights like access to housing and water to become private commodities ...