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.

Dog gone

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

Asylum hotel protests are spreading across the UK. Who’s really behind them?

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

YOUR LETTERS

Cuts will rip the heart out of Samaritans at a time when it’s never been needed more

FIRST AGAINST THE WALL

THE PIG ISSUE • They’re as intelligent as three-year-olds and make great pets. It was pigs who led the revolution in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, which turns 80 this month. But today, UK pig farming is in trouble. Tom Horn gets to the root of the problem

CUCUMBER TOTALLY TOOK THE TEMPERATURE OF ITS TIME

BUTTERFLY

LEONA LEWIS • The singer had her heart broken by her first love at age 16, but her parents gave her the blueprint for her own couple goals

Books

Poison was the cure

Film

Alex Lawther ‘THERE’S AN UNNERVINGNESS TO HOW QUICKLY AI IS MOVING’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

Music

Comedy

Puzzles

MY PITCH