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.

Love and hope

THE DISPATCH

It’s time we stopped having to face up to a SLAPP • POLICY AND CAMPAIGNS OFFICER AT INDEX ON CENSORSHIP AND THE CO-CHAIR OF THE UK ANTI-SLAPP COALITION

YOUR LETTERS

The Big Issue

A trip back home shows the journey to end poverty is far from over

Beyond the diagnosis

PM for the PM Julie Hayden

‘Relax, we don’t bite!’ • How to behave around somebody with a dementia diagnosis

David Baddiel and Chris Snell

‘I felt part of an extended family’

‘There isn’t a word for dementia in Gujarati’

Researchers are doing incredible work to cure dementia. More funding is vital

Meet Wispy the AI assistant

The app that makes time travel a virtual reality

Good design is the key to independence

Read all about it • How Memory Sparkles uses reminiscence to support people living with dementia

Quiz • Memory Sparkles contains quiz questions to keep the mind active and stimulate conversation. Try some of these brain teasers!

Want to help the families of people with dementia? Here’s what to do

Postcards from the great outdoors

Evidence of the link between brain injury and dementia is growing. These ex-rugby players want answers

Tyne for heroes

Living with dementia has changed my life, but art helps me find myself • Ronald Amanze is a poet, musician and music producer living with dementia. He is a trustee of Arts for Dementia. This is his story.

The Mountains I Still Climb by Ronald Amanze

Peter Marinker ‘It’s a swansong. But I want to keep going’

‘I need an autocue now, but you show me an artist my age that doesn’t!’

Set adrift on memory bliss

‘There are so many ways to enjoy music’

‘There is something in us that wants and needs music’

What is Alzheimer’s?

Puzzles

MY PITCH • RUSSELL TRIMBY, 48 JOHN LEWIS, READING 11AM TO 3.30PM, EVERY DAY