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

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THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Diminishing students’ futures by degrees

Far-right former football hooligans don’t realise who the real enemy is

BIRD’S WORDS • To end poverty, a social audit is required

LETTERS

‘Life really is humbling sometimes’ • TV star AJ Odudu hasn’t forgotten her working-class roots. She returns to her native Blackburn regularly to help out in a food bank, where the impact of the cost of living crisis is all too real

Routemaster – the ‘bus of the future’, 70 years on

Lessons from the Middle East for a warming planet

MATT HAIG • The tearway teen’s breakdown in his twenties changed everything, but the writing career he craved wasn’t far away

YOU HAVE YOUR MOTHER’S FACE

Grime and reason

Escape to the wild side

SEX, DRUGS AND BLOOMBERG TERMINALS

Unhealthy fixation

Sophie Turner and Frank Dillane ‘PEOPLE ALWAYS ROOT FOR THE REBELS’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

The rhythm of life

How Dante’s grudges and gossip inspired my book, hundreds of years on

Puzzles

MY PITCH • This week’s My Pitch heads to a different pitch entirely as the Homeless World Cup was held in Asia for the first time last week