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.

Astral week

THE DISPATCH

YOUR LETTERS

Cricket and the earworm

The Big Issue

Danny O’Donoghue • The Script frontman is grateful for the charmed life he’s led, but the tragic loss of a bandmate led him to seek spiritual help

CLACTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM

EYES ON THE SKIES

‘There have been so many miracles along the road’

Andy Burnham said he wants to prevent homelessness. So we looked at how councils spent the money they’re given to do it

The invisible night carers holding up the system

What do carers actually earn?

War Child Secret 7”s

‘I was astounded that the first Nazi found in America was a woman’

RECOMMENDED READS

If everyone’s a critic, is anyone a critic?

Stand-up is stood down

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

‘I had nothing to hide’ • Arctic Monkeys and Gorillaz producer James Ellis Ford made a solo album from his hospital bed while undergoing treatment for leukaemia

Hex the patriarchy • Invisible Cities celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. This week – like thousands of others – we’re travelling up to the festival city of Edinburgh to meet Gayle, who has been a tour guide for four years.

BIG Kids • ISSUES / IDEAS / IMAGINATION

Puzzles

MY PITCH • IN MEMORIAM: JANE BURNS