Liam Geraghty

Superman has always been an immigrant The new Superman film has caused controversy after James Gunn called it the story of ‘an immigrant’. The character has always been this way.

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.

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Thanks to @mattdownie.bsky.social, @depaul-uk.bsky.social and @housing-justice.bsky.social for speaking to me and reflecting on a rollercoaster five years.

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

Thanks for your insights, Matt!

Headline and lede from Big Issue article by Liam Geraghty on 4 March 2025, with a photo of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer UN calls on Labour to increase benefits and scrap two-child limit in UK poverty crisis warning The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights also called for the UK to set to measurable targets to eradicate poverty in line with the Big Issue’s Poverty Zero campaign

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

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🚨 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.
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Inside Ukraine's fight against homelessness after three years of bloody war Depaul Ukraine is fighting homelessness in the war-torn country. CEO Anka Skoryk shares how the charity is looking beyond the end of the war.

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

Exquisite taste

Surge in renters losing their homes due to no-fault evictions ahead of ban More than 11,000 households lost their home to a section 21 'no-fault' eviction in 2024, government statistics show.

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. ⬇️
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Rough sleeping in London 'as bad as it’s been’ but Sadiq Khan warns things won't improve until 2026 A total of 4,612 were rough sleeping in London at the end of 2024 as Sadiq Khan warns of wait until 2026 to see falling numbers

🚨 Breaking: Rough sleeping in London 'as bad as it’s been’ but Sadiq Khan warns things won't improve until 2026
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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

Inside the UK's first safer drugs consumption room – and how it can save lives The Thistle, Glasgow's safer drug consumption room, launches this month. It's a radical step in tackling Scotland's drug deaths crisis.

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' Yasmina was homeless and living in car when Depaul UK's Nightstop service sent her to Mark and Elisabeth Bryant's home. It changed her life.

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

Inside the factories where children are forced to make our Christmas gifts The gifts you've bought your loved ones this Christmas could have been made in a sweatshop. Big Issue speaks to activists demanding change.

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

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This is the reality of life in temporary accommodation at Christmas This year surging numbers of people in temporary accommodation moved beyond a crisis, becoming an existential threat for some councils.

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. ⬇️
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“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

Homelessness facts and stats: The damning numbers you need to know Experts worry about a looming crisis of homelessness. These are the rough sleeping figures and homelessness facts you need to know.

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:

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Thanks Zoe!

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: 'It's a tragedy people can't afford their essentials' Big Issue meets Charlotte Ritchie – star of Ghosts, You and Call the Midwife – at a food bank as she joins calls for change.

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

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Surging rental prices are dwarfing inflation – and nobody is talking about it Rent inflation is at 8.7% in the year up to October 2024 dwarfing the 2.3% wider inflation rate and leaving renters struggling to keep up.

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

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