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

PM FOR THE PM • Andi Osho is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian, who is currently starring as Sandra Cliff in BBC One’s Blue Lights. But which policies would she green light if she were suddenly running the country for an afternoon?

YOUR LETTERS

Change is brewing

The Big Issue

OPINION • What Britain can learn from other countries about reducing drug deaths

BIRD’S WORDS

THE HIDDEN LIVES OF WOMEN ROUGH SLEEPING

IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT PERIODS AND HOMELESSNESS • Finding women experiencing homelessness is vital but so is designing services that meet their needs. A new academic study shows why breaking the taboo on menstruation is part of the solution

WOMEN CAN’T BE LEFT OUT IN THE COLD IF WE ARE TO END ROUGH SLEEPING

THE INSIDE TRACK ON ROUGH SLEEPING

THE COLOUR OF POVERTY

Mark Constantine • The Lush co-founder has battled family violence and homelessness to become a huge business success. And he owes a big debt to a trio of remarkable women

INTERVIEW WITH THE RELUCTANT VAMPIRE

Crowd Sound

Pack up your Troubles

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SAM DELANEY IS NOT AT HOME

Since when did being a musician mean becoming your own publicist?

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

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