The Big Issue

The Big Issue is one of Britain’s leading news and cultural magazines. Every week’s edition is packed full of original takes on the biggest issues of the day as well as interviews with the most significant figures in politics and entertainment. The Big Issue was founded 1991 to give people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to earn their own income. We continue to support hundreds of vendors across the UK and all proceeds from sales go to help anyone wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.

Sea change

THE DISPATCH

There’s been a revolving door at No.10 for years. Is ending poverty the key to keeping the job?

PM FOR THE PM MICHAEL SPICER • The comedy political adviser usually found in The Room Next Door has been (hypothetically) elected leader for the afternoon

YOUR LETTERS

Seaside spirit

The Big Issue

Why privatisation is ruining your life

Dr Ranj Singh • The TV doctor was a shy and strait-laced kid with a secret inner life. When the chance came for a creative outlet he didn’t look back

The salt belt of deprivation

Airbnb kills communities. Is it time for a ban?

‘Poetry is within all of us’

In desperate pursuit of Nicholas Lyndhurst

Design and Disability • An exhibition at the V&A Dundee

Body of evidence

Books about kindness

‘Children’s books teach you how to belong in the world’

‘With Gareth, it’s a love that’s only grown. And I can’t really hide it’ • Joseph Fiennes, Jodie Whittaker and writer James Graham on their new drama series exploring the Gareth Southgate years

Who says romance is dead?

‘It’s never nice when people are mean about you’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

That galactic thrill

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

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