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.

Art attack!

THE DISPATCH

The Big Issue

YOUR LETTERS

We come in peace

Funding the NHS is a taxing problem

Michaela Strachan • Her really wild career has made her one of the UK’s top nature presenters. When life brought challenges, she borrowed from Japanese art to mend herself

Meet our winner!

Three Peas • Axel Scheffler is patron of Three Peas, a charity that helps displaced people. It was established by seven friends from six different nationalities living across Europe.

Kids Cover: the shortlist

A generation in the crossfire: 102 million children are at risk across the Middle East

UN vs Board of Peace

Make play not war

‘Hunger changes people’

A warning shot from history • The UK’s relationship with guns may be changing, says historian and TV star David Olusoga. So we need to fully understand their power

Infinity Pool

‘A lot of people go through this but just don’t talk about it’

Use your delusion

Books about lying

The empirical reality of racism

Working the circuit is no laughing matter

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

Ballet’s supreme rebuttal

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

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