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.

Orinoco’s flow helps Big Issue on the road

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here’s why

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Running in the family

BIRD’S WORDS • From a hostelry to the high street: happy birthday to Big Issue

LETTERS

DANNY DYER IS A NATURAL SALESMAN

‘This has come at the right moment in my life’

Far away in the Kenyan wilderness, a bitter dispute is sounding the alarm for the future of the planet • New documentary The Battle for Laikipia is a dispatch from the frontline of the climate crisis. Devastating drought has revived longstanding grievances about colonialism. Conflict is breaking out between white landowners and Indigenous people. The film’s co-director Peter Murimi explains why we all need to pay attention

DANIEL O’DONNELL • He thought he might become a teacher before discovering his singing could make people happy. And it still does

MY CREATURES

A call to us all not to turn away

Back then, when all the stages were bare

‘CARE EXPERIENCED PEOPLE ARE THE BEST PEOPLE TO HAVE IN A WORKPLACE. WE’RE BRILLIANT!’

Love that’s out of time

Charlie Cooper ‘I LOVE RURAL FOLKLORE AND THESE WEIRD TRADITIONS’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Ezra Collective hit the high notes

Puzzles

MY PITCH