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.

THE DISPATCH

SOPHIE MORGAN • A writer, broadcaster and disability advocate, Morgan is co-host of The Experiment, the disturbing recent documentary that tests how susceptible people are to Nazi propaganda around disability. So what would she do if she were given the keys to Downing Street for the afternoon?

YOUR LETTERS

Vice up your life

The Big Issue

BIRD’S WORDS • A bit of Beethoven can ensure we’re not deaf to the perils of falling into poverty

THE BIG ISSUES OF GRAND THEFT AUTO VI

ONLINE SAFETY

‘When I started painting them, I could see much of their lives etched into their faces’

Squeeze • Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook are the main songwriters and founding members of Squeeze, the band they formed in 1973. When they first met, their creative chemistry was instant

The Musician’s House

Heumann nature • Oscar winner Siân Heder directs Ruth Madeley in the story of an unstoppable disability rights advocate whose bravery changed the world

‘DIRECT ACTION GETS THE GOODS’

‘I wasn’t sacked from many productions. Maybe one or two’

RECOMMENDED READS

Break the mould • Northern Irish band Robocobra Quartet make guitar-free music, pairing “jazz-inflected saxophone and drums with post-hardcore intensity”. Their new record is a 100-song, five-hour album designed to counter short attention spans and AI-generated music. And it comes alongside 100 pieces of artwork grown from fungus in petri dishes. Vocalist and drummer Chris W Ryan explains why

LUCY SWEET ON TV

Notes from underground • To mark the 10th anniversary of Invisible Cities, which trains people with experience of homelessness to become guides around the places they have a unique perspective of, we’ve been travelling around the country focusing on a different place each week. The 10th city on our journey has just been launched, so join Sean on a trip to Belfast.

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

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