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

A mountain of waste

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

What happens when a university goes bust?

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITORIAL

The government must put things right and lift the two-child benefit cap in its Autumn Budget

BIRD’S WORDS • Our artificial world needs to get real

LETTERS

‘This sport is literally people in wheelchairs, some of whom are incredibly disabled, trying to smash other people out of their wheelchairs’

Designing for disability • The evolution of the Paralympic brand

This is Windermere, England’s largest lake. Last year, it was flooded with 8,787 hours of sewage. One man is fighting back

MORE THAN ONE STORY

PAUL SINHA • He became a comedian to be more interesting at dinner parties. Then a TV quiz changed everything

ART

A manifesto for blessed resistance

Letters from a medieval gentlewoman

Arnie is back… and he’s not the only one

Sing Sing POETIC JUSTICE • While serving a prison sentence, Clarence Maclin discovered the transformative power of Shakespeare. Now he stars in a screen version of his real-life story of redemption

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Amateur voices under the spotlight

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Boots, High Street, Exeter, Monday-Wednesday, 7.30am-12pm; Friday, Saturday, 9am-5.30pm; Sunday, 10am-4pm