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.

The fate of fast fashion

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Knowledge is the power that trumps all else

My fellow MPs – the planet is counting on our vote

BIRD’S WORDS • Social media noise is hastening our descent towards fascism

LETTERS

BOB DYLAN SEES HIMSELF WITH A CLEAR EYE • Director James Mangold’s eagerly awaited Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, is with us. Mangold talks to Big Issue about Dylan’s seismic impact on the world, and how Timothée Chalamet rose to the task of playing a musical icon like no other – in a film that introduces the voice of a generation to a brand new age group

KNOWN • Bob Dylan may be A Complete Unknown to many, but not to all. We take a look through our back pages to reveal another side of Dylan, revisiting what some of our interviewees over the years have said about the great man

As people across the country start to rebuild from devastating floods that struck in the first days of the year, Flood Mary is here to offer her hard-earned wisdom

The climate crisis is on our doorstep. How can we keep eco-anxiety in check?

THE MAN WHO RAN THE WORLD

ALEX KAPRANOS • In the early days, fame led him to walk around Glasgow in a dodgy disguise. Now he’s become a dad, he’s feeling liberated

POSTER FOR AN IMAGINED BAND

Tales of messy freedom in a Dirty War

The stars have always spoken to us. It’s time again to listen

The swipe is right

Chloe Kelly ‘I’M A BAD LOSER. I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE THE BEST’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

Renascence men

Is TikTok’s ‘Sleepmaxxing’ trend yet another wellness fad or is it glorifying SAD?

Puzzles

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