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.

One weekend, two history-making gigs – and Big Issue was at the heart of it all

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

An anthropologist lived on a poverty-stricken housing estate. This is what he learned about debt

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

YOUR LETTERS

End misogyny. Bring back Page 3

Celebrating the Roma

THE REALITY OF PROTEST IN 21ST CENTURY BRITAIN

THIS IS WHAT GEN Z PROTEST LOOKS LIKE

THE CHANGING FACE OF ACTIVISM IN MODERN BRITAIN

The true legacy of the 2012 London Olympics • When London learned it would host the 2012 Olympic Games, regeneration promised to transform deprived communities in East London. But the Games did not deliver. Academic Penny Bernstock is among those fighting for a legacy the locals deserve

‘A lot of people lost everything because of his actions’ • Brian Cox is taking aim. The Succession star is set to return to the stage in James Graham’s satirical new play, Make It Happen , about Fred Goodwin, the former CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland who brought the institution to the brink of collapse in 2008, placing Scotland at the heart of the global financial crash. And the disgraced banker isn’t Cox’s only target

THE WHITE GIANT

ERIC IDLE • He revolutionised comedy with Monty Python. Now, having survived cancer, he’s still looking on the bright side

Image problem

Weight in gold

In praise of a scary summer

‘WHEN KAREN SCREAMS ALONG TO HEAVY METAL, I’VE DONE THAT’

ROBIN INCEIS ON THE ROAD

Sett piece

‘Folk is naturally inclusive. It is for everyone’

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Co-op, Clarence Place, Bristol