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.

Grace under pressure

THE DISPATCH

The Big Issue

Spider-Man, rainbows and Peppa Pig... a ‘life-saving’ project is transforming the bedrooms of children living in poverty

YOUR LETTERS

EDITOR’S LETTER • It’s a numbers game

BIRD’S WORDS

Warren Ellis • The Australian instrumentalist and Bad Seed worshipped creativity. Later, animals brought him the peace he craved

TRUST ISSUES • There is a global crisis in public trust. With the return of The Traitors and an upcoming Labour conference that will see an embattled party fighting to regain the confidence of a tired nation, Will Jennings explores how we got here, the way trust – or lack of – impacts us all, and how it can be regained

The public trusts celebrities lying to each other in a castle more than the people leading the country’s political parties

‘If you throw, you have to catch.’ It seems like a good rule. Except Lisa Whitmore is talking about people

PARLIAMENT NEEDS A HOUSE OF CAMPAIGNS

The Hack will reshape ideas about where power lies

CULTURE

REVIEWS Speaking words of wisdom

Swear on my life

The image in the age of AI

The cult poet and The Rock’s Hollywood team-up

LUCY SWEET ON TV

Whole lotta laughs

Puzzles

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