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.

Sea change

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITORIAL • Don’t forget Myanmar

YOUR LETTERS

BIRD’S WORDS • Back when I was an early version of AI

AMBASSADORS RECEPTION

‘I do think it’s interesting that I’ve never been offered the part of a real winner’ • The remarkable late-career renaissance of Jennifer Coolidge has been a joy to behold. We meet the icon to find out how she took her game to the next level

Minecraft has built creativity into a generation of kids

JUST ME

BRIDGET CHRISTIE • Her creative brain was stifled at school, but the comedian and creator/star of The Change is grateful now for failing all the auditions because it meant her writing evolved

And so it goes

‘People are sick, traumatised, and the city has lost control’

Back with a vengeance?

ONCE TERRESTRIAL TV IS GONE, WE WON’T GET IT BACK

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

AURORA • Norwegian singing superstar AURORA has a unique and enchanting voice. She played the secret siren in Frozen 2 and can be heard soundtracking the devastating denouement of Adolescence. It’s been 10 years since her breakthrough song Runaway, written when she was only 11, which has since racked up three billion streams.

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Tesco, Aston Lane, Birmingham 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday

Covid exposed the UK’s health inequality – but has anything changed?

Cancer is more deadly when you don’t have a home. A new project aims to change that • We went to Cambridge to find out how embedding health workers in homeless hostels could save lives

This respiratory clinic for homeless people is a breath of fresh air

15% of homeless people have pulled their own teeth • These dentists and nurses are easing the pain

How I quit alcohol in my thirties

Addiction is expensive, fixes are priceless

Rethinking the meaning of normal

This is what it’s like to be held hostage by your own body