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.

Stand-up teams

THE DISPATCH

The horrific state of our social housing is a stain on the nation. Only state-led housebuilding can fix it

PIERRE NOVELLIE • Stand-up comic, broadcaster and podcaster

YOUR LETTERS

Back in the Games

The Big Issue

On the ground in Venezuela • Claudia Gonzalez Pacheco writes from Venezuela following the twin catastrophic earthquakes that struck her home country on 24 June killing 5,000 people and leaving tens of thousands missing. Claudia works for World Vision, one of the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) member charities

Burnham is singing from our hymn sheet. It gives reason for hope

Ruth Madeley • The actor never believed anything was impossible. Not even balancing her happy home life with Hollywood

‘THE FUTURE MIGHT BE BETTER THAN YOU THINK’

Legacy building

AS HEALTH GAPS WIDEN, CAN BURNHAM REPLICATE HIS GREATER MANCHESTER SUCCESS ELSEWHERE IN THE UK?

This Leeds pub crawl brings home the shocking disparity in Britain’s life expectancy

I used to play with Jude Bellingham until my mum got sick. Street football gave me hope again

The Unknown Soldier

‘I believed that I didn’t belong in books’

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Channelling my love for the small screen

When will AI be funnier than us?

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Amplifying the classics

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

MY PITCH SIMON DENIS, 61 • OUTSIDE PRET A MANGER, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON MONDAY – FRIDAY 7AM-3PM