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.

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THE DISPATCH

Sometimes our dogs are all we have left

When pets are as vulnerable as those who care for them

YOUR LETTERS

Rough justice

The Big Issue

Why HIV as it’s shown in Tip Toe should be your view of HIV today

Shirley Manson • The Garbage singer has stood up to misogyny to live a life she could barely have dreamed of as a teenage rebel

BEING HOMELESS ISN'T A CRIME. IT'S JUST CRIMINAL THAT IT STILL EXISTS

The Criminal

1000 Years

Barbed Wire

‘I CAUGHT IT LIKE A BALL FLYING AT MY FACE’ • 10Foot talks to the Museum of Homelessness founders about the making of Faerie Newbuild, the inspiration for their exhibition – and what comes next

Yes Loitering

Where is the government’s promised Vagrancy Act ban?

The new enclosures

ON THE GROUND FOR THE PEASANT UPRISING • This is a fictional report based on a real event, written from the point of view of a contemporary journalist covering England’s 1381 peasant uprising

Revolutionary Standard

THE CHILDREN ARE ALWAYS OURS

When the River Stops Running

Refugee Week: exhibition

A design for life

Female friendships

The identities of LGBTQ+ scientists shape the way they see the world

‘The physical contact is a dopamine hit’ • With streaming costing each household £175 a year, 20 years after release Blu-ray is making a comeback

‘Being someone else is just the most fun thing in the world’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

What Windrush sounds like

New kings of Yorkshire

Where youth engagement is a slam dunk

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

FOOTBALL SPECIAL