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.

Beaton generation

THE DISPATCH

OPINION

The Big Issue

YOUR LETTERS

The wind beneath Starmer’s wins

Big Issue is ripe for reinvention

Helen Macdonald • Writing H is for Hawk helped process loss and brought unexpected success, but they still dearly miss their biggest inspiration

Grief in full flight • Claire Foy plays Helen Macdonald in a film adaptation of their bestselling memoir, H is for Hawk

Are you down for the count?

OPINION • A quieter dawn: how the UK became one of the most nature-depleted countries on the planet. And what we can do about it

This lonely view

‘You’ll seldom meet a backgammon player who doesn’t think they’re terrific’

Tulip and Vase By a detainee at HM Prison Huntercombe

Natural approach

TOP 5 Funny books

The end of us?

‘Everything stopped. The whole of Ireland held its breath’ • Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan, and directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, introduce Saipan, their new film showing the legendary pre-World Cup bust-up between Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy

‘There’s a lack of local bands because there’s a lack of hope, you know?’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Hodge review heralds change

Puzzles

MY PITCH STUART DRUCKER , 52 • I’m just hoping for warmer weather now