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Steven MacKenzie

United Kingdom

Deputy Editor at The Big Issue

Deputy Editor at The Big Issue (@BigIssue)

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Articles

  • Operation Mincemeat creators: 'Fascism hits differently in America'

    1 week ago | bigissue.com | Steven MacKenzie

    Theatre Since it was first performed in 2019, it's become the most acclaimed show in West End history, but is Operation Mincemeat too British for Broadway? Operation Mincemeat was a masterstroke of misdirection. In 1943, British intelligence dressed a dead body as a Royal Marines officer, planted fake invasion plans then arranged for it to wash up on Spanish shores where enemy spies would feed the fake news back to Berlin.

  • Singer AURORA: 'Soundtracking the end of Adolescence was meant to be'

    2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Steven MacKenzie

    Music Ten years since the Norwegian star's breakthrough song Runaway, she's soundtracking the TV show dominating the national conversation 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.

  • Poor mental health and feeling sad is a normal part of life, according to science

    2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Steven MacKenzie

    Health With pressures on mental health services at breaking point, it's time to rethink our understanding of what is normal, says neuropsychiatrist Dr Alastair Santhouse Last month health secretary Wes Streeting said there was an “over-diagnosis” of mental health conditions.

  • How Myanmar's devastating earthquake turned the spotlight on a man-made disaster

    2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Steven MacKenzie

    An earthquake grabs headlines but the hope that felt tangible in Myanmar left with the return of dictatorship I don’t recall the road to Mandalay as vividly as the journey from it. In 2012, my friend and I were traipsing around Southeast Asia. Myanmar was just reemerging as a travel destination after years of a widely held boycott to stop the tourist dollar going into the military dictatorship’s pockets.

  • Jeff Goldblum: 'The universe is a wondrous, mysterious place – appreciate it'

    2 weeks ago | bigissue.com | Steven MacKenzie

    Film Jeff Goldblum is a legend of the big screen. He’s also a talented and celebrated jazz pianist with a huge passion for music. Time for his bushy-tailed enthusiasm Jeff Goldblum was born in West Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1952. He moved to New York City at 17 to study acting and made his Broadway debut two years later, in Two Gentlemen of Verona.

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