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 DISPATCH

The Big Issue

YOUR LETTERS

Dog days are here again

Dermot O’Leary • His Irishness informs his identity. And all, for him, is love

Fear • Fear, as the man said, can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. So why are so many in Britain currently chained by fear?

The school patrols dividing a Greater Manchester town • Anger and division in communities has taken hold across England over immigration this year. In Heywood, what started as an anti-immigration protest has grown into patrols outside schools

Should we all be scared of crime around us?

Houses of horror

Reform have turned net zero into a culture war bogeyman. It’s time to de-mask the monster

WIN a night in the UK’s most haunted house! • We have a spooktacular opportunity for Big Issue readers – you could win an overnight stay for four people at 30 East Drive, Pontefract – the UK’s most haunted house.

CULTURE

Everything is connected

Not throwing away his shot

‘What is the meaning of this life that we have?’

More Than One Story: the next chapter

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Sing hosanna! And other school assembly bangers

Puzzles

MY PITCH CONSTANTIN MUSTAFA, 63

THE KEY TO SURVIVING WINTER? LIVE LIKE A MEDIEVAL PEASANT

‘I BELIEVE IN YELLOW STICKER KARMA’ • Inside the supermarket discount subculture

MATT EDMONDSON IS A SELF-PROCLAIMED MONEY-SAVING EXPERT HE IS NO MARTIN LEWIS, HE STRESSES, BUT HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BIT OF A SKINFLINT. • The Radio 1 DJ is talking to celebrities about their spending habits, and finds that it’s good to be thrifty

HOW FAIR FOR YOU’S SHOPPING CARD LOAN IS HELPING SOCIETY FACE DOWN DEBT

NEARLY HALF OF GEN Z HAVE A SIDE HUSTLE. WHAT’S BEHIND THE RISE OF YOUNG

WHEN THIS ↑ COUNCIL-ESTATE PUB SHUT DOWN, LOCALS STEPPED IN TO SAVE IT. A DECADE ON, IT’S ‘MUCH MORE THAN A PUB’

YOUR 2025 WINT£R SURVIVAL GUID£ • Here is how to get help if you are struggling to afford to pay your heating bill over the winter months

‘ENERGY BILL RISE MADE ME FEEL SICK. I’D LIKE KEIR STARMER TO TRY LIVING IN MY BUNGALOW WHEN IT’S COLD’