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

Grenfell: a catalogue of failure

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

Academics put trackers on homeless people. This is what they learned

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

BIRD’S WORDS

LETTERS

A LOOK BACK (NOT IN ANGER) AT MY CONVERSATION WITH NOEL • As a young PhD student, Rupa Huq interviewed Oasis legend Noel Gallagher for Big Issue in 1999. Some might say that was a career high, but she would go on to forge a path in politics – as a Labour MP since 2015. Here, she recalls their conversation, recorded in a time of Britpop, political change and cautious optimism, and draws parallels with today’s culture. We’ve reprinted a snapshot of young Noel’s words opposite, and you can read the full interview on bigissue.com

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TAKE A FLAT EARTHER TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD?

A TRIP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Six million people in the UK are going without essentials like fridges or washing machines because they can’t afford them. But a cycle of change is coming

JARED HARRIS • The son of an acting legend moved to the United States to discover who he really was, only to get bitten by the same bug

SAD EYES

A fright to the finish

What unpicking the atomic mindset can do for us

Positive exposure

‘I FEEL LIKE I MET ABBY AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT TIME’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

The label that keeps dancing clever

Get ready for the Great Resignation 2.0

Puzzles

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