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.

Friends in high places

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

A lack of representation is denying asylum seekers a fair hearing. Left to navigate the immigration system alone, they are part of a ‘shadow backlog’ of appeal cases

The Big Issue

Let’s float the idea of public ownership

YOUR LETTERS

Disabled children are bearing the brunt of a broken social care system. They deserve better

The truth is out there – and we need to hear it

IT GOT A BIT CRAZY! • Ncuti Gatwa on fame, fighting climate change and taking on the big issues as Doctor Who returns

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTERS ARE LEFT COUNTING THE COST

BIG QUESTIONS

GETTING THE WHITE WORKING CLASS WRONG • In our post-Brexit era of populism and culture wars, white working-class Britain has been both lionised and victimised – a convenient shorthand for politicians and media to use to score a point. But who exactly makes up this hugely diverse group of people, and what do they actually believe? In his new book, Underdogs, Joel Budd is busting the myths

‘The weight I’d been carrying alone was finally shared. It changed everything’ • Financial pressures can hit anyone at any time. When you’re feeling overwhelmed with money worries it can trigger mental ill health, and even relationship breakdown. But there is no need to carry the burden alone. Help is out there as Kate McCavana, 55, from Cornwall, found

EQUANIMITY (JUBILEE EDITION)

TIM MINCHIN • His brother taught him to play guitar and sent him on the road to stardom. His talents are many, but his pleasures are simple

The end of the line

Soothsayers of science fiction

‘People have a longing for lies. They need them’

‘THE TRUMPET FELT LIKE AN UZI’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

From hardship to hero worshipped: the early life of Louis Armstrong

Respiration is a political act

Puzzles

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