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Greg Barradale

London

Reporter at The Big Issue

Senior reporter @bigissue Winner, News & Investigations, MHP 30toWatch '23 / Shortlisted, Feature Writer of the Year, BSME Awards '23 DMs open for stories🗞

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  • 2 days ago | bigissue.com | Greg Barradale

    Politics Zack Polanski hopes to become the next leader of the Green Party. He believes success lies in offering a left-wing challenge to Reform. If you want to easily understand Zack Polanski’s “eco-populism” pitch to the Green Party, consider what he drinks: English breakfast tea with oat milk. The current deputy leader of the Green Party arrives at a community cafe in Hackney Wick on his bike.

  • 5 days ago | bigissue.com | Greg Barradale

    Housing Experts say unaffordable housing is behind the lack of pupils driving some London schools to close. But the picture isn't quite that simple Falling pupil numbers are driving schools across London to shut their doors. It’s seen as an ominous sign of the growing unaffordability of the capital, the nation’s wider housing crisis, and a global trend of falling births. But how worried should we be?

  • 1 week ago | bigissue.com | Greg Barradale

    Skip to header Skip to main content Don’t miss this special offer - 12 issues for just £12! Sponsored by Wales and West Housing Homelessness in Wales reached record levels in 2024. Big Issue investigates the systems and barriers keeping people on the streets of Cardiff “I’m still in a state of shock,” Nikolas says.

  • 2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Greg Barradale

    Skip to header Skip to main content TAKE ACTION: Tell Keir Starmer it's time to reduce poverty in the UK Music End of the Road is in its 19th year. Founder Simon Taffe took time out from planning to explain how he keeps a festival alive in tough times It has never been harder to run a festival in the UK.

  • 2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Greg Barradale

    Sponsored by Wales & West Housing Two years on from riots which catapulted Ely into national news, an unfancied area of Cardiff has set about rebuilding Riots sparked by the deaths of two young boys in Cardiff in 2023 put the area of Ely into the national spotlight. But afterwards, something remarkable happened as a community worked out how to rebuild. Two years ago on the night of 22 May, two teenagers died riding an electric bike.

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Greg Barradale
Greg Barradale @GregBarradale
14 May 25

Really buzzing and very honoured to be a finalist in this year's Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness!

The Orwell Prize
The Orwell Prize @TheOrwellPrize

“The media has the power to foster meaningful solutions.” - Dr Lígia Teixeira, Chair of Judges We're proud to announce the finalists for the 2025 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness. Explore the nominated journalism: https://t.co/yB0oxvDgtz @homelessimpact #OrwellPrize2025 https://t.co/csyh1Fo6vo

Greg Barradale
Greg Barradale @GregBarradale
11 Feb 25

RT @sophwan_: this is a really good article by @BigIssue . if the government are serious about making work accessible to those who are neur…

Greg Barradale
Greg Barradale @GregBarradale
29 Jan 25

https://t.co/QFTDAgxSn3

Richard Keys
Richard Keys @richardajkeys

Gerrard gone.