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 Big Issue

BIRD’S WORDS • However you slice the pie, prevention is the answer

PM FOR THE PM • The meteorologist, scientist and weather presenter unsurprisingly would focus on the climate crisis if she was in No 10 for the afternoon. Well, that and chocolateÉ

Does football hold the answer to the UK’s faltering prison education? • Here’s a puzzle: Half of prisoners are functionally illiterate. Reoffending costs society more each year than abolishing the triple lock will save. What if the two are connected? And what if football can help?

Turning over a new leaf

Prison shouldn’t be a sentence to a life without opportunity

YOGA ON THE INSIDE

Koestler Arts: Rock, Paper, Scissors

PURPOSE AFTER PRISON

A business idea shouldn’t stop at the prison gate

How Big Issue works to stop prisoners becoming homeless

‘It became about giving a voice to all women’ • A new version of Phyllida Lloyd’s acclaimed all-female Julius Caesar, starring Harriet Walter, is a collaboration between schools, prisons and some of the finest actors in the business

‘Baby could be any of us’

Chase & Status • All those evenings sitting in a dark room obsessing over drum sounds paid off – nearly three decades on, the DJ duo are UK dance music royalty

Raison d’être

Mood indigo

RECOMMENDED READS

Out of the box

LUCY SWEET ON TV

Daddy issues

Beauty of the Borders • Invisible Cities trains people with experience of homelessness or other hardships to be guides around the streets that they know inside-out. This year, it’s celebrating its 10th anniversary. Mandy is here to tell us about her tour of Galashiels, a town in the Scottish Borders famed for its textile industry

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

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