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Big Issue
@BigIssue
The UK’s number one street paper and social enterprise. 📰 Follow us for news, culture, and to support our mission to dismantle poverty in the UK.
Nov 13, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
It’s been a big day in Westminster.

From Suella Braverman's sacking to David Cameron's comeback - here's our recap.

🧵1/11 ➡️🚪Suella Braverman was gone by 9am, sacked by Rishi Sunak as home secretary after inflammatory comments over pro-Palestine protesters.

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Oct 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
A new anti-protest law is one step closer to becoming a reality

The Public Order Bill creates longer prison sentences for certain protesters, in a bid to reduce "serious disruption"

Here are 5 things you didn't know about it👇

bigissue.com/news/activism/… 1. It could cost the public up to £17.9m over 10 years 💵

Most of this will be from the court cases stemming from increased arrests

“The growing trend of seriously disruptive and dangerous protest tactics are resulting in increasing costs to the public,” the Home Office said
Oct 10, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Today is #WorldHomelessDay2022. It’s the perfect time to think about how to solve a problem that shouldn’t exist. We already know how to end homelessness. And it can be done. Here’s how:

bigissue.com/news/housing/w… Housing First is a model that has already had a big impact on street homelessness in Finland 🇫🇮 It’s a simple solution: give people who are homeless a home and the support they need to keep it
Sep 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Anti-homeless architecture can take many forms and be tough to spot but it is a hidden fixture of cities and towns across the world 🌍 bigissue.com/news/housing/a… Also known as defensive architecture, hostile design or exclusionary design, it is used to tackle social problems “in ways that appear to be benign but has potentially more aggressive impacts,” says expert @qurbanist
Apr 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Two-time Portrait of Britain winner @MarcDavenant has spent six years travelling around Britain with his camera to capture the reality of homelessness from the people who live with it every day bigissue.com/news/housing/t… @MarcDavenant On his travels, the photographer met Big Issue vendors like Will Herbert, long-time rough sleepers and people living in filthy, unsafe housing
Apr 22, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
🌎 It’s #EarthDay but the birds and bees of Britain are on the decline — and most people haven’t even noticed bigissue.com/news/environme… 🐝Biodiversity is the variety of life in an ecosystem.

Britain has lost half its biodiversity in the last couple of hundred years.

We’re in the bottom 10% of countries in the world and last in the G7. Last. #EarthDay2022
bigissue.com/news/environme…
Feb 9, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
🏠TV host Kirstie Allsopp has come under fire for saying young people should cut out Netflix and the gym to buy a house.

🧵We spoke to experts and crunched the numbers to see if that’s even possible. Calculators at the ready…

bigissue.com/news/housing/m… 🥑“Millennials are spoiled” is a common theme in some parts of the media, as homeowners young and old insist anyone can afford to buy a house, just like they did.

Is this really true though? Let’s look at some numbers. Bear with us.

bigissue.com/news/housing/m…
Feb 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Comedian @MoTheComedian was in a KFC car park when he got the call to host the #BRITs bigissue.com/culture/music/… @MoTheComedian "For me the goal is to inspire. There’s probably some young kid who’s watching me, like: ‘Oh my god, I never thought I’d see someone who looks like my uncle or older brother host the Brits’" bigissue.com/culture/music/… Image
Jan 17, 2022 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
💸The UK is currently in the midst of a severe cost of living crisis - a situation in which necessities like groceries and energy bills are rising in price faster than wages, squeezing people’s finances: bigissue.com/news/politics/… @jrf_uk Image: Pixabay 🔨💷Shortages of goods and staff, high demand for oil and gas and pandemic-related financial support schemes ending have all pushed up prices, while tax rises due in April will squeeze finances further. Here’s where you’ll see the biggest differences 👉 Image: Pixabay
Jan 17, 2022 • 9 tweets • 9 min read
“At the moment, I'm the most well-known deaf person in the UK. That comes with a responsibility,” says @roseaylingellis.

In the latest Big Issue, she talks dancing, being a role model, and why she’s asking politicians to back a new law.

bigissue.com/culture/tv/ros… Rose says she didn’t see deaf people on TV when she was young so didn't realise she could become a professional actor.

“I’m so glad deaf children now have somebody to look up to – I just can’t believe it’s me,” she told @adey70

bigissue.com/culture/tv/ros… Starring in EastEnders with Danny Dyer. Pic: BBC
Jan 13, 2022 • 11 tweets • 9 min read
🏭 A new report from the @CommonsEAC has laid bare the shocking extent of pollution in England’s rivers and the harm it’s doing to humans, animals and the environment. So why are our rivers so polluted - and what can you do about it? bigissue.com/news/environme… @theriverstrust 📷Tim Green/Flickr 🚽 One primary pollution source is sewage, which was discharged into English rivers by water companies at least 400,000 times in 2020 alone. This waste contains all kinds of dangerous pollutants - from narcotics to e-coli and microplastics. 📷Pixabay
Jan 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🚨 It's time to praise all the innovators and agitators who believe no one should live in poverty 🚨

Editor @PauldMcNamee introduces our Changemakers of 2022, don't forget to pick up your copy of the magazine from your local vendor!

bigissue.com/news/introduci… @PauldMcNamee These are the Changemakers making a difference to one of the most basic human rights: having a roof overhead to call home

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Jan 5, 2022 • 13 tweets • 11 min read
Here are five new laws for 2022 that you need to know about. First up is the #NationalityandBordersBill
bigissue.com/news/politics/… The #NationalityandBordersBill would redefine who can claim asylum in the UK. It marks certain routes as legal, and others - like small boat crossings - illegal. Priti Patel says controlling our borders is what British people voted for...
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Dec 8, 2021 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
On December 18, Downing Street officials allegedly held a Christmas party in breach of Covid rules. @Bigissue spoke to frontline workers about what they were doing on the same evening as they battled to protect others: bigissue.com/news/politics/… #PartyGate Bonnie Milnes was working in care on December 18, and was forced to stay away from her family to keep her client safe. “The party at number 10 highlights how much of a joke Boris makes of looking after the British public,” she says. bigissue.com/news/politics/… #downingstreetparty
Dec 8, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
When Downing St held a Christmas party last year, most of the UK was facing another strict lockdown. Just a day after the party was reportedly held, Boris Johnson announced new measures which the media touted as ‘cancelling Christmas’. bigissue.com/news/politics/… Days before the party, then-health secretary Matt Hancock briefed MPs on the discovery of a more transmissible new Covid variant which was growing exponentially around England.
Nov 3, 2021 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
The menu for #COP26 delegates has come under fire for serving meat and dairy in almost 60 per cent of its dishes.

A spokesperson for @RebelsAnimal called it "like serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference"

bigissue.com/news/environme… A statement on the catering website for #COP26 says: “According to the WWF, we need to get [the carbon footprint of food] down below 0.5 kg CO2e [per meal] to reach the goals defined in the Paris Agreement."

So what's on the menu?

bigissue.com/news/environme…
Nov 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Today, world leaders at #COP26 pledged to end deforestation by 2030, promising £14bn in funding. We asked delegates what they made of the announcement… @HelenMagata from the @iipfcc says ending deforestation won’t be possible without strengthening the rights of indigenous people, who are still criminalised for protecting forests. @ForestPeoplesP
Nov 1, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Homelessness is already bad for health – but climate change is set to make things worse. That’s why the climate crisis is even more reason why homelessness must end

bigissue.com/news/housing/c… More frequent extreme weather events are likely to hit people living on the streets hard. Whether it be hypothermia in freezing temperatures or overheating, sunstroke or skin cancer in extreme heat

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Oct 30, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
What will your day look like in 2050?

Depending on the outcome of #COP26, the picture could be very different. @sarahirwilson spoke to experts across fashion, diet, transport & architecture for a snapshot of life in the best and worst-case scenarios
bigissue.com/news/environme… 🏡✅ If all goes well, in 2050 you share a complex with neighbours of all ages and reap the benefits of cheap renewable energy, rainwater-powered showers and smart architecture to keep the building cool in summer and toasty in winter.
bigissue.com/news/environme…

📷 Abir Abdullah
Oct 28, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Succession's Brian Cox has some strong opinions on Michael Caine, Johnny Depp, David Bowie, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Seagal in his new book bigissue.com/culture/tv/eig… Steven Seagal?

'As ludicrous in real life as he appears on screen. He radiates a studied serenity, as though he’s on a higher plane to the rest of us, and while he’s certainly on a different plane, no doubt about that, it’s probably not a higher one' bigissue.com/culture/tv/eig… Image
Oct 19, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
People are being forced to submit photos of themselves holding a local daily paper in order to claim universal credit. One organisation supporting a claimant compared the demands to “what kidnappers do” bigissue.com/news/social-ju… The instructions are being posted in online universal credit accounts and also tell claimants to have someone else photograph them stood outside their front door – which must be open – with the whole property visible