The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a UK-based street paper that supports the homeless, the vulnerably housed asnd those seeking to escape poverty. Vendors normally buy the magazine for £1.25 and sell to the public for £2.50. We are using Zinio digital editions to create additonal revenue opportunities to fund our street-based and pastoral care services for our vendors. We are a social enterprise company and all revenues go to support the vulnerable communities we serve. Our goal is to move our vendors away from dependency and towards full time employment

Biting back at the bedbugs

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

THE GREAT BRITISH LAND CARVE-UP • Five years ago, we reported that private developers were holding on to vast swathes of land to protect their profits from market forces. At the time, the top 10 housebuilders held 632,785 plots between them. But instead of building on that land to help ease the UK’s ever-deepening housing crisis, developers have only increased their massive land holding. Steve Howell revisits an ongoing scandal

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • Taking action on climate change is not small beer

BIRD’S WORDS • Liverpool, lozenges and learning from history

LETTERS

A UNIVERSAL STORY OF INJUSTICE AND BETRAYAL • Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is an instant classic. It illustrates how the greed and murderous intent that stripped Indigenous people of their future still echoes. Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear of the Osage Nation describes the Reign of Terror

The chance discovery of lost stories is a final gift for Pratchett fans

JAZZIE B • He was a self-confessed mummy’s boy who grew up to create an influential sound, get an OBE and call James Brown a friend

ART • KYIV IS THE UNBREAKABLE HEART OF EUROPE

Books

The illuminating majesty of the lighthouse

Film

‘I THINK WE LIVE IN QUITE TERRIBLE TIMES’

SAM DELANEY IS AT HOME

FIGHTING TO KEEP OUR SMALL VENUES ALIVE

The venue that changed my life

Music

Music

Puzzles

MY PITCH • One Stop, Drake’s Cross Parade, Hollywood, Birmingham 10am-5pm, not regular days