
Marc Burrows.
Writer
He regularly writes for The Big Issue, Independent, The Guardian, The Observer, The Quietus, the i Paper.
Blogs by Marc Burrows.

Your minimum wage pay rise just landed… but are you actually better off?
The minimum wage just rose on 1 April 2026 but are you really better off? We break down your take-home pay, rising household bills, and how much extra you could actually keep this year.
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Someone stole 413,793 KitKat F1 cars. Let’s do some maths!
A truck left a factory in Italy, it was supposed to arrive in Poland, and somewhere along an 800-mile route someone made off with nearly half a million chocolate bars and the entire vehicle they were travelling in.
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Kanye at Wireless costs up to £360. Here’s why it might be the riskiest ticket purchase of the summer
Ye has been a hugely important figure with real classics to his name. But £360 is a significant sum. And the man you’re betting it on has, in recent years, developed a relationship with reliability that can most charitably be described as ‘complicated’.
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Is PlayStation Plus actually worth it in 2026? We did the maths
PS Plus can be genuinely good value, but only if you pick the right tier for how you actually play, pay annually, and keep an eye out for deals.
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