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.

Full steam ahead

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

Six months on, we revisit the donkeys serving as animal ambulances in Gaza. Now they are facing starvation

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Pole position remains a privilege

YOUR LETTERS

BIRD’S WORDS • The radicalising effect of government inaction

Harris Dickinson is not interested in Hollywood stories (though the one about The Beatles gets through) • The London-born actor is on the verge of superstardom, but his directorial debut Urchin is an uncompromising and deeply human portrait of street homelessness

Expression with words, not violence

We’re setting people up to fail • Urchin highlights a very big issue as Nacro chief executive Campbell Robb explains

The community that painted itself a better future

DAVID CORIO PRINTS AND POSTERS FOR RETHINK MENTAL ILLNESS

SIR JOHN RUTTER • As he celebrates his 80th birthday, Britain’s greatest-living composer reflects on an incredible life in music, which started with the creation of a Christmas classic aged just 16

Suspect device

A secret history

Ice cool

‘ANYWHERE YOU GO YOU SEE THE BEAUTY OF HUMANS AND IT’S ASTOUNDING AND POWERFUL’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

The sound down under

Will AI cause a revolt of the graduate class?

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Union St (opposite Lush), Bath, Tuesday-Saturday 8.30am-1pm