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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Poverty policy needs a rethink. One day, we will replace the fish with fishing rods

2 days ago | bigissue.com | John Bird

Skip to header Skip to main content Don’t miss this offer - 8 issues for just £9.99 Why not convert the natural and deeply human desire to help into something more useful than a food parcel? The only time I met with the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, it was to discuss poverty, and replacing ‘handouts’ with ‘hand-ups’.
I went from warehouse worker to starring in a film about exactly that

4 days ago | bigissue.com | Isabella McRae

Film On Falling tells the story of the relentlessness of working in a warehouse, and it features people with lived experience like former warehouse worker and comedian Louis Utieyin Louis Utieyin was working six days a week, waking up at 4am, as a picker in a warehouse. He despised the work but it led him to a role in On Falling, a film made Ken Loach’s production company Sixteen Films.
Labour wants to use AI to predict murder. This could have chilling consequences

6 days ago | bigissue.com | Jake Hurfurt

Skip to header Skip to main content Don’t miss this offer - 8 issues for just £9.99 Jake Hurfurt, head of research and investigations at Big Brother Watch, writes about his fears for government plans to use AI to predict murder by: Jake Hurfurt Imagine hearing a loud knock at the door in the early hours, and outside there are two police officers waiting to say: “Excuse me sir, our AI tool has predicted you are a future murderer, so you need to come with us.” If this sounds like a sci-fi plot,...
Homeless centre forced to turn young people away due to 'unprecedented demand'

1 week ago | bigissue.com | Isabella McRae

Housing New Horizon Youth Centre provides a 'vital' service to young people facing homelessness in the capital, including emergency accommodation, advocacy and advice London’s only day centre for young people facing homelessness has had to close its services for new clients as a result of “impossibly high numbers” needing help.
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.
World War II made America great. Trump's trade war could finally be its undoing

1 week ago | bigissue.com | John Bird

It seems enough Americans, through the lens of the bizarre Donald trump, are pissed off with the world – which includes us Apparently if you are a European jam and marmalade maker, up until Trump’s intervention you’d only pay a 4% tariff to sell into the United States; yet if you were a US jam or marmalade maker selling into Europe you’d pay around 60% tariff – etc, etc. As presented by Trump, the eye-watering amount America pays to trade in the world, if true, does make you think.
Disabled children face 200-day wait for social care assessment

1 week ago | bigissue.com | Isabella McRae

Social Justice One mother of a disabled child described how the process to get support from the social care system 'consumed all of my spare time' Parents of disabled children are at “breaking point” as one in three have been unable to access the support they need from social care services, a new report has revealed.
Here's one way to tackle rising rural homelessness: Invest in rural housing

1 week ago | bigissue.com | Liam Geraghty

Housing English Rural Housing Association, Porchlight and Commonweal Housing have urged the government to ramp up Housing First in the countryside to prevent rising homelessness in rural areas Campaigners are calling on the government to scale up Housing First projects in rural areas in a bid to tackle rising homelessness outside cities.
How to get out of debt: Simple steps to go from red to black

1 week ago | bigissue.com | Emily Chudy

Skip to header Skip to main content Don’t miss this offer - 8 issues for just £9.99 In association with Experian 'It is an incredibly difficult time for millions and millions of people' With the cost of living crisis ongoing, debt is an issue that affects millions around the UK.
Scottish exporters brace for 'significant hit' from Trump's tariff war

1 week ago | bigissue.com | Charlotte Elton

Politics The US is a huge market for Scottish whisky and salmon. But Trump’s unpredictable tariff war could put local businesses in a tricky position Scottish whisky and salmon exporters are “bracing themselves” for the impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs. The United States is a huge market for the two iconic commodities. But Trump’s 10% ‘liberation day’ tax on all imports – which took effect 5 April – will put local businesses in a tricky position.