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 Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

Ending poverty’s relentless grip must be a priority for the next government. Here’s how.

BIRD’S WORDS

LETTERS

Emilia Clarke asked doctors to let her die when she had her first brain injury. • She thought she would never work again. She had aphasia which affected her speech, and if she could not speak, she could not act. If she could not act, she could not live.

‘Storytelling is the soul of activism’ • Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai talks to Big Issue about her new documentary, Bread & Roses, which shows the brutal realities of life for Afghanistan’s women under the Taliban

Women’s work • Director Sahra Mani and producer Justine Ciarrocchi discuss the solidarity, on film and behind the scenes, that made new documentary Bread & Roses

JOHN CALE • The teen viola prodigy went from a Welsh mining village to NYC and changing rock’n’roll with The Velvet Underground

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Books

The essential guide to book Festivals 2024

How fiction can help children understand poverty

Five great new summer reads for young enquiring minds

Letters to Molly

When prison libraries break down walls

Film

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson ‘WE LOVE PUTTING THE WHOLE WORLD ON STAGE’ • The creators of Little Amal, the giant puppet of a Syrian refugee who crossed the world, have a new play that asks whether the 1997 Kyoto agreement offers any hope for the future of the planet through the lens of today’s political climate

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

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