The Big Issue

The Big Issue is one of Britain’s leading news and cultural magazines. Every week’s edition is packed full of original takes on the biggest issues of the day as well as interviews with the most significant figures in politics and entertainment. The Big Issue was founded 1991 to give people experiencing homelessness the opportunity to earn their own income. We continue to support hundreds of vendors across the UK and all proceeds from sales go to help anyone wanting to lift themselves out of poverty.

Fire and ash

THE DISPATCH

The Big Issue

‘It’s nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn’t define you’

YOUR LETTERS • Send us your image, or photo you’ve captured, of Britain today with a brief description. On socials or email letters@bigissue.com

Train of thought

We’ve elected a plumber. Now let’s rebuild parliament from the foundations

Nick Mohammed • A teenage obsession with magic meant that the career in geophysics was never really going to happen. Instead, life took a spellbinding turn

‘It’s about legacy and succession and how you pass the crown on’

A shock to the corp • Formula E became the first sport to be named a B Corp in January. Here’s how that accolade has revved up the all-electric motorsport

Food tastes better when it’s served with values

Violet Project Ability

Wild imagination

TOP 5 • Books about returning home

Greater than what divides us

Forty years of Flare

‘We’re in Rome and all shouting Bosh!’

LUCY SWEET ON TV

The sound and the fury

Puzzles

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