The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a UK-based street paper that supports the homeless, the vulnerably housed asnd those seeking to escape poverty. Vendors normally buy the magazine for £1.25 and sell to the public for £2.50. We are using Zinio digital editions to create additonal revenue opportunities to fund our street-based and pastoral care services for our vendors. We are a social enterprise company and all revenues go to support the vulnerable communities we serve. Our goal is to move our vendors away from dependency and towards full time employment

Stormy times

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The years-long pay dispute that’s become a fight for the futures of working-class students • In the last 20 years, the further education sector has contracted in the face of underfunding, leaving working-class students without avenues to learning

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • We should be Keane to make a connection

BIRD’S WORDS • New government, new opportunity for a social security rethink

LETTERS

Fix housing to fix Britain Kwajo Tweneboa and his manifesto for change • The nation’s highest profile housing campaigner tells Big Issue why building social housing and having more tracksuits in parliament can address the UK’s biggest housing crisis since World War II

BEHIND EVERY STATISTIC IS A STORY WAITING TO BE TOLD • Big Issue and Cardboard Citizens are proud to present a new series of short films that show homelessness is More Than One Story

MALORIE BLACKMAN • She used to suppress her instincts, but when the acclaimed author discovered she was neurodivergent everything finally made sense

THE WRESTLER – TONY CASSIO

Books

Film

Michelle de Swarte ‘SOMEONE HAD TO TELL ME I WAS HOMELESS. I WAS IN SUCH DENIAL’ • Michelle de Swarte’s new BBC Two comedy series Spent, about a former top model who becomes homeless, has its roots in her real life story

ROBIN INCE IS AT GLASTONBURY

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Green Park Station, Bath Every day, any time of day