https://www.gregbarradale.comRSS Feed for Greg BarradaleenWed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/yo-yo-homes-right-to-buy-council-labour/The 445 Yo-yo Homes were sold under Right to Buy for £35.7m and bought back for a total of £97.1m, a loss of £61.4m. Funded with taxpayer cash, the difference is going to private owners because of how the system is designed. As councils buy up properties in a bid to fight the cost of homelessness, current Right to Buy rules mean they cannot reclaim profits from newly-minted Right to Buy owners who wait more than five years to sell. Florence Eshalomi MP, chair of parliament’s housing select...Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/yo-yo-homes-right-to-buy-council-labour/https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/veterans-homeless-support-scheme-op-fortitude/After Keir Starmer promised his government would house all veterans in need, I revealed that the future of a scheme which had helped hundreds off the streets was in doubt. Weeks later, the government confirmed millions in funding for the scheme.Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/veterans-homeless-support-scheme-op-fortitude/https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/yo-yo-homes-right-to-buy-zarah-sultana-ed-davey/Yo-yo Homes revealed by Big Issue so far include one property in Hackney, sold by the council in 2014 under Right to Buy for £95,050. In 2021, the council bought it back for £365,000, making a loss of £269,0950. In another example, a property in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, was bought by an ex-tenant under Right to Buy in 2016 for £16,000. It was then sold back to Cheshire West and Chester Council in 2024 for £170,000 – more than 10 times the original price. Our investigation has uncovered mo...Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/yo-yo-homes-right-to-buy-zarah-sultana-ed-davey/https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/yo-yo-homes-right-to-buy/My investigation into Yo-yo Homes was picked up by outlets including the Telegraph and Independent, attracted tens of thousands of views with social media video, and prompted reaction from figures including Sadiq Khan and Ed Davey.Sun, 12 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/yo-yo-homes-right-to-buy/https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/asylum-court-uk-appeals-migrant-hotels-immigration/As asylum appeals dominated the national political conversation, I spent a day inside the courtrooms where the decisions are made to tell readers about the reality.Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/asylum-court-uk-appeals-migrant-hotels-immigration/https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/greater-manchester-police-overdose-drug-naloxone/My reporting on police forces' refusal to give frontline officers the option to carry naloxone, a life-saving drug, led to pressure from politicians which ended with Greater Manchester Police revealing the details behind their decision.Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/greater-manchester-police-overdose-drug-naloxone/https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/shadwell-fire-overcrowding-london-sentencing-landlord/I was the first journalist to break the story of a fatal fire in an overcrowded flat in Shadwell. I followed the story for years, right through to the sentencing of the landlords.Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bigissue.com/news/housing/shadwell-fire-overcrowding-london-sentencing-landlord/https://www.bigissue.com/news/nitazenes-drug-deaths-birmingham-simeon-mcanoy/Part of my investigation into the hidden toll of nitazenes. This narrative feature made use of interviews and extensive inquest documents to reconstruct the life and death of Simeon McAnoy.Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bigissue.com/news/nitazenes-drug-deaths-birmingham-simeon-mcanoy/https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/nitazenes-opioid-drug-deaths-crisis-uk-birmingham/This long-form investigation was on Big Issue's cover and was read over 300,000 times online. It led to calls for action from MPs, and was the start of my long-term work on synthetic opioid deaths.Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/nitazenes-opioid-drug-deaths-crisis-uk-birmingham/https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/labour-government-ended-rough-sleeping-tony-blair/One of three articles which made me a finalist for 2025's Orwell Prize on Reporting Homelessness, this story involved interviews with former ministers and homelessness workers.Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/labour-government-ended-rough-sleeping-tony-blair/https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/harry-kane-statue-pictures-waltham-forest-council/Every major media outlet in the UK picked this exclusive up. I was also interviewed by The Athletic about the story.Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.bigissue.com/news/social-justice/harry-kane-statue-pictures-waltham-forest-council/https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/exclusive-suella-braverman-claims-to-have-contributed-to-a-legal-textbook-the-author-says-she-only-did-some-photocopying/This exclusive about the Home Secretary's CV led to a complaint to the Bar Standards Board, was picked up by Private Eye, and ended up as part of the 'allegations of misconduct' section on Braverman's Wikipedia page.Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/exclusive-suella-braverman-claims-to-have-contributed-to-a-legal-textbook-the-author-says-she-only-did-some-photocopying/https://www.bigissue.com/news/how-broken-is-the-uk-public-transport-i-spent-all-day-on-buses-to-find-out/The idea was simple: travel from England's worst-connected to best-connected towns, using only buses. The resulting story was part of an entry which won me an MHP 30toWatch award for news and investigations.Sat, 13 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bigissue.com/news/how-broken-is-the-uk-public-transport-i-spent-all-day-on-buses-to-find-out/https://archive.thetab.com/uk/2020/06/10/we-spoke-to-the-boys-in-this-picture-and-theyve-had-enough-of-your-jokes-161026I guarantee you have seen this meme. I tracked the men in the photo down and – obviously – am still proud of it.Wed, 10 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://archive.thetab.com/uk/2020/06/10/we-spoke-to-the-boys-in-this-picture-and-theyve-had-enough-of-your-jokes-161026