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New Buy Now, Pay Later rules are here. What do the changes mean for you?

Long-awaited regulations for Buy Now, Pay Later firms like Klarna and ClearPay come into force today (15 July), giving borrowers greater protections and transparency over what happens if payments are ...
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'Mummy, are we homeless?': I'm a single parent and it's locking me out of the housing market

Ruth Talbot, the founder of Single Parent Rights, writes about her experience of struggling to find housing as a single ...
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The long, hot summer of 1976 changed Britain. What can we learn from it 50 years later?

The summer of 1976 has gone down in the popular memory as an idealised time. What can we learn from it during 2026 heatwaves?
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Meet the parents struggling to find summer holiday clubs for disabled children: 'They miss out'

For a lot of kids, the summer holidays are the highlight of the year. Not for eight-year-old Azuriah. The “smiley and bubbly” little boy is autistic, non-verbal and has global development delay. When ...
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Oobah Butler tackles the housing crisis: 'We’ve become used to the fact that we are screwed'

Oobah Butler is a filmmaker who uses satirical stunts to showcase the absurdities and injustices of modern life. For his latest documentary, How To Trick Your Way Onto the Property Ladder, he takes on ...
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Revealed: Homeless people face 'postcode lottery' of support leaving them at risk in heatwaves

An investigation into how councils handled the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol in UK heatwaves shows homeless people face ...
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I work in probation. What meeting a homeless man on the street taught me about second chances

I found him where he usually sheltered, sitting in a doorway in the city centre with everything he owned packed into bags around him. I was dressed for the office – shirt, tie, polished shoes. He was ...
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Why Britain's next prime minister must tax billionaire wealth now. Democracy is on the line

The financial world has reacted with euphoric celebration to SpaceX’s recent stock listing. Yet, as market onlookers cheer Elon Musk’s personal fortune crossing the historic $1 trillion threshold, we ...
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PIP assessment process is 'dehumanising' and 'degrading', government's Timms Review finds

The government has published the first part of the Timms Review into the PIP assessment process. Here's what it found.
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Big Issue vendors given free sunscreen as temperatures soar

As outdoor workers face 60% higher skin cancer risk, DIC is supplying sunscreen to Big Issue vendors in Summer Support Kits.
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YouTuber and economist Gary Stevenson: 'If we don’t tax wealth we'll return to the feudal age'

We could be on the cusp of great change. No, not that one. Much too obvious. When Gary Stevenson, creator of the popular Gary’s Economics YouTube channel, drops into the Big Issue office in London, ...
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Jinkx Monsoon: ‘Billionaires have no one to blame but themselves if they’re hated’

Jinkx Monsoon was going to name her new comedy and concert tour ‘Dear Straight People’ until she got a call from a fellow winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race. “Bob the Drag Queen said to me, ‘You’re stupid ...