The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a street newspaper that was established in September 1991 by John Bird and Gordon Roddick. This publication operates across four continents and is produced by skilled journalists while being sold by homeless individuals. As one of the top social enterprises in the UK, The Big Issue aims to provide homeless people, or those at risk of becoming homeless, with a chance to earn a lawful income, assisting them in their efforts to rejoin society. It holds the title of the most widely distributed street newspaper in the world.

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Palestinians plead with UK to act as children in Gaza starve to death

1 day ago | bigissue.com | Isabella McRae

Don’t miss this special offer - 12 issues for just £12! Politics British Palestinians held an urgent press conference calling for the UK government to act to help people in Gaza Dr Rossel Morhij recalls the night a bomb struck a school in Gaza. “That night is beyond anything I’ve ever seen.
Zack Polanski on making Starmer more scared of the Greens than Reform

2 days ago | bigissue.com | Greg Barradale

Politics Zack Polanski hopes to become the next leader of the Green Party. He believes success lies in offering a left-wing challenge to Reform. If you want to easily understand Zack Polanski’s “eco-populism” pitch to the Green Party, consider what he drinks: English breakfast tea with oat milk. The current deputy leader of the Green Party arrives at a community cafe in Hackney Wick on his bike.
Jarvis Cocker: 'We only have a finite amount of time to do the things we do'

2 days ago | bigissue.com | Sam Delaney

Music Pulp have returned with their first album in 24 years. And Jarvis has still got it “I used to watch a lot of telly as a kid,” says Jarvis Cocker, relaxing on a sofa in the meeting room at Rough Trade Records HQ in Notting Hill. “It would give me a representation of the world that wasn’t real. I would see a giraffe and think, ‘Right, now I know what a giraffe is like,’ But I didn’t really.
A Reform councillor calling children in care 'evil' is missing the point

2 days ago | bigissue.com | Sophia Alexandra Hall

After a Reform councillor described children in care as 'evil', Sophia Alexandra Hall explains why this comment isn’t shocking – it’s part of a deeper systemic failure Imagine reading that a politician thinks your community is evil. That’s what it felt like when I saw the headline, “Councillor says some children in care are ‘evil’” 10 minutes after waking up this morning.
Benefit cuts will have 'catastrophic impact' on mentally ill people - Big Issue

2 days ago | bigissue.com | Lottie Elton

The government's plans to cut disability benefits such as PIP will have a “catastrophic impact” on people’s finances and mental health.
Dangerous Animals review - you're gonna need a bigger bait

2 days ago | bigissue.com | Graeme Virtue

Film We're not short of shark movies, but Dangerous Animals manages to carve out its own nasty niche The more fins change, the more they stay the same. Intentionally or not, Steven Spielberg created the modern Hollywood blockbuster in June 1975 when his stressful creature feature Jaws became a phenomenon.
Patients 'dying all over the place' due to Manchester's mental health care crisis

3 days ago | bigissue.com | Isabella McRae

Social Justice NHS workers in Manchester's mental health services have accepted a deal for more funding and called off strikes – but they fear problems persist more widely in mental health teams across the country Mental health services in Manchester have faced “crisis after crisis” and preventable patient deaths due to underfunding and “lack of compassion”, NHS workers have said.
Care leavers were given free money, no strings attached. Here's what happened

4 days ago | bigissue.com | Sophia Alexandra Hall

Sponsored by Wales and West Housing The Welsh basic income pilot for care leavers has come to an end, but its effects have been profound In 2022, Wales launched the UK’s first basic income pilot for care leavers – an ambitious experiment offering more than 600 young people £1,600 a month (£1,290 after tax), with no conditions attached.
How worried should we really be about schools closing in London?

4 days ago | bigissue.com | Greg Barradale

Housing Experts say unaffordable housing is behind the lack of pupils driving some London schools to close. But the picture isn't quite that simple Falling pupil numbers are driving schools across London to shut their doors. It’s seen as an ominous sign of the growing unaffordability of the capital, the nation’s wider housing crisis, and a global trend of falling births. But how worried should we be?
Big tech wants to mine human creativity for AI training. We say no

5 days ago | bigissue.com | Paul McNamee |Paul Mcnamee

Where does plagiarism, theft and breach of copyright end? Where tech companies find it inconvenient and say it ends, evidently It’s never been completely clear whose interests Nick Clegg wanted to serve. In the coalition he was pitched as the tempering voice, supposedly saving the country from the worst excesses of a Conservative party desperate to cut, cut, cut. One word, Nick – austerity. Then came the university fees U-turn and his supplication.