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

Bloom and gloom

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

How Labour’s target of 1.5 million homes will depend on the private sector

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITOR’S LETTER • Working towards a universal good

BIRD’S WORDS • It’s time to get on our bikes

LETTERS

The future of nostalgia • The faded grandeur of British seaside towns reflects the times, but celebrating the social legacy of a holiday golden age will make them shine again

A bridge to nowhere in praise of motorway service stations

‘These children are chosen. And that is a really powerful thing’ • The cost of living crisis means that, for the first time in years, there are more children waiting to be adopted than adults registered to adopt. Big Issue talks to parents who have made the adoption decision

Boiling Frogs

SIR KARL JENKINS • An only child, the composer lost both his parents before he was 30, but found solace in music and meeting the love of his life

FIRE

Unravelling the inheritance of harm

The moment I discovered I was born a refugee

Summer animation is reassuringly buoyant

‘IT’S TOTALLY REASONABLE IF TERRY GILLIAM DOESN’T WATCH THIS’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

Taking cues from pop’s taste for nostalgia

Lessons we can learn from folklore

Puzzles

MY PITCH • M&S, High Street, Barnstaple, 10am-3pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; South Molton Pannier Market, Thursday, 10am-1pm