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.

Where there’s a well

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

I’m a street paper vendor and I support Donald Trump

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITOR’S LETTER • Original pirate material

The sharp increase in homelessness is a national disgrace. Labour will work to end it for good

BIRD’S WORDS • I may have been rude, but three decades of the same conversation is exhausting

LETTERS

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES • The musical reimagining of The Wizard of Oz shows a way to reclaim the American dream

‘The people that joined the IRA were just regular people’

Caught by the fuzz

LUCY LAWLESS • She ran away from home to become a Warrior Princess, then became a different kind of warrior for Greenpeace

PAINTER AND DECORATOR

All rise

The multitude of sins

Seventh heaven

Jean Purdy made parenthood a possibility for millions. We need to celebrate this unsung hero

‘WE WANTED TO SHOW THEM THE WHOLE WORLD’ • Three of their children are going blind. So these parents decided to take their family on an adventure

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Captivated audience

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Kings Chase, Kingswood, Bristol Monday-Friday, 10am-2pm