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.

Power walking

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

Lifetime ISAs are meant to help young people onto the property ladder. But rigid rules are blocking some savers from buying a home

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER

YOUR LETTERS

BIRD’S WORDS

ASYLUM HOTEL PROTESTS DOMINATED HEADLINES OVER THE BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND. BUT MORE PEOPLE WENT TO PARKRUN • Britain braced for an upswing in asylum hotel protests after a High Court ruling in Epping. But Big Issue analysis has found that the number of protesters outside local hotels were mostly dwarfed by the number of people competing in local Parkruns.

Britain is burning. But we can still extinguish the chances of a more flammable future

I GOT YOU

HUEY MORGAN • Fun Lovin’ Criminal he may be, but there were dark times to work through before he found fame and a family

There, there, my dear

Get in tune

TURN IT UP, UP, UP ALL THE WAY TO 11

‘I HATE TO TELL YOU, BUT WE MIGHT ALL BE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE’ • In a time of publishing industry freefall, a new spin-off from The Office mines the bleakness of today’s journalism landscape for laughs. Lottie Elton meets the stars with a tough act to follow

POETRY IN MOTION • Tyneside native Rowan McCabe went door to door around the UK to write personalised poems for the people he met

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Down the rabbit hole of an opera institution

Puzzles

MY PITCH • M&S Barnstaple Friday 10-11am; 3.30pm-5pm