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.

Poplar culture

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

An off-grid community’s decade-long fight to save their home

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITOR’S LETTER • Artistic property is not theirs to nick

YOUR LETTERS

In the publishing of the Gauke Review, we can at last see political courage

BIRD’S WORDS • Our current age is not so nice. Who could disagree?

JARVIS COCKER IS IN TOUCH WITH HIS FEELINGS

IT’S 1995 ALL OVER AGAIN

When my daughter died I became a kinship carer to my grandkids. It was sink or swim • Rebekah from Kent’s grandchildren would be in foster homes if she hadn’t taken them in. She explains how, as a kinship carer, she does not qualify for state support

‘WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE STARMER IS MORE SCARED OF US THAN OF REFORM’

WOMEN AT WORK

ALEX SCOTT • Football offered her an escape from a tough childhood, but she never dreamed she’d become such a pioneer for the women’s game

Books

Weighing on the mind

The strife aquatic

‘MAYBE WE NEED TO ROOT FOR THE HEROES AGAIN’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Listening is a radical act

BIG QUESTIONS • The Man Like Mobeen star loved The Goonies and Oasis. Now he’s representing working-class West Midlanders – and Pedro Pascal is a fan

Puzzles

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