Left high and dry

7 min read

The cost-of-living crisis is hitting everywhere hard, but some places more than oth

This article is from...

The Big Issue Magazine

13 March, 2023

Read this article and 8000+ more magazines and newspapers on Readly

Country Life

Poll finds support for rural britain

Green and pleasant land: 91% say that the ...

Time Magazine Europe

The global affordability squeeze

IN THE U.S., HOME PRICES HAVE SHOT up about 45% since 2020, more than twice the typical rate of appreciation. In the U.K., household energy bills are 52% higher than their prepandemic level. And in co

Homes & Antiques

Escape to the highlands

The Scottish Highlands have captured travellers’ imaginations since Sir Walter Scott began setting his wildly evocative historical novels here. What those first Victorian tourists discovered was a vas

The Big Issue

‘watch your step,’ warns paul powlesland, grimacing. ‘this is pretty much an open sewer’

Water we going to do? Let’s dive in → Water covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. Yet 97% of it is saline, and much of what remains is locked away in ice caps and glaciers. If all the planet’s