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.

Lens flair

THE DISPATCH

OPINION

The Big Issue

UK FLOODS

YOUR LETTERS

What price the measure of our dreams?

A new kind of politics is coming our way

Moby • His first show was played to an audience of one small dog, but his obsession with music eventually took him to Glastonbury glory

‘I’m thrilled our music is being used for anti-ICE protest videos’

‘This film has two love stories’ • Domestic bliss with Linda and ‘divorced’ from Lennon: for his new documentary Man On The Run, director Morgan Neville spent hours with Paul McCartney getting to the heart of life after The Beatles

SOUL SURVIVOR

DO IT YOURSELF

PHOTOGRAPHY • When Janine Wiedel started photographing St Agnes Place, London’s longest running squat, Bob Marley was long gone.

Youth of Craigmillar

A cut above

TOP 5 books about Charles Dickens

The hounds of love

Dance macabre

Withheld deposits, giant rodents and rent hikes. This is the unsettling life of Generation Rent

LUCY SWEET ON TV

A guide to shrinking your own economy

Puzzles

POSTCARDS FROM MY PITCH • Vendors from street papers all over the globe were asked to send postcards from their pitches. They show how far Big Issue has come in 35 years