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 DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The UK has a fertility crisis. Here’s how we solve it • Financial worries, including the soaring cost of childcare, could be behind the UK’s falling fertility rates

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

YOUR LETTERS

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal. It’s time for a rethink

The court report • Protests at asylum hotels led to one council turning to the law to get a hotel shut down. More across the country are following suit. But one thing is largely ignored: for asylum seekers to move out from hotels, their cases must be processed and their appeals resolved. Home secretary Yvette Cooper has even promised fast-track appeals. But what happens in these appeals courts and can they be sped up? Greg Barradale went to the drab heart of the asylum tribunals to find out

Are thousands of asylum seekers about to be kicked out of hotels?

‘Power is gradually shifting away from the western world’

‘I’M BETTER THAN BASILBRUSH’

THE ADDICTIVE APPEAL OF THE ALGORITHM

THESE PRIMARY SCHOOL KIDS HAVE BIG IDEAS TO END HOMELESSNESS

Palestinian farmers in the West Bank are in a fight for survival • Across the West Bank – home to three million Palestinians – farming has become a lifeline. A UK charity is offering vital support for farmers in crisis

SMALL HOURS: A PORTRAIT OF ALCOHOLISM

DAVID MITCHELL • He didn’t have any success with girls but he was able to make people laugh. Becoming a comedian seemed the obvious choice

Books

All that you taught me

Theatre

Film

Sam Riley ‘ACTING IS A RALLY. BUT IT’S NOT ABOUT WINNING THE POINT’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

Music

Puzzles

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