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.

A memorial and a reminder

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

Their energy bills are £5,000 a year, yet they were left with no heating or hot water in the depths of winter

THE BIG ISSUE

EDITOR’S LETTER • Ed Sheeran alone can’t be expected to change the shape of the UK

When a GP is sent to prison for protest, it underscores the tensions we face in the climate emergency

BIRD’S WORDS • Pay attention to this hive mind

LETTERS

You can trust in us

As tech billionaires cosy up to Trump, misinformation is thriving

We have to trust that ultimately facts will override lies, but in an age of misinformation facts suffer too

Do you trust Big Issue’s journalism to be factual and accurate?

‘In looking for answers, they can be exposed to hate’

From fake birds to mermaids, this group is tackling fake news and teaching media literacy in schools

Inside the UK’s first drug consumption room

FROM BINGO TO BARRIOKE THE NEW ENTERTAINMENT ECONOMY

PETER DOHERTY • The poetic army brat found his musical soulmate, but the drugs always threatened to derail everything

HOME: THE KEY TO HOPE

Spoofing marvellous

Stone of destiny

‘MAYBE DON’T JUDGE PEOPLE SO HARSHLY. LOOK CLOSER’

Magic Mike’s XXL process

‘PATIENCE IS HIGHLY EMPATHETIC. IT’S JUST EXPRESSED IN A DIFFERENT WAY’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

Fjord of dreams

Faded beauty in our remarkable postwar art

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Rootes grocery store, University of Warwick, Coventry Tuesday-Friday (Saturdays at Jubilee Crescent, Radford, Coventry) 9am-4pm