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

Uncertain path

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

IF LABOUR WANT TO MAKE HISTORY, THEY MUST ALSO LEARN FROM IT • Labour came to power at a time when the UK’s economic and political challenges were even more severe than they are today

The Big Issue

EDITOR’S LETTER • The tide is high but we’re holding on

BIRD’S WORDS • The government are at fault and renters are left counting the cost

LETTERS

DURAN DURAN AND THEIR DECADES-LONG PATH TO POSITIVITY • Once pitched as the poster boys for a particular brand of Thatcherite excess, Duran Duran are now covering The Specials’ Ghost Town, the era’s biggest protest anthem. Making music is about rich escapism and experimentation, they say. So why get political now?

IS LEEDS THE UK’S WORST-CONNECTED CITY? • Rishi Sunak “threw a hand grenade into the economy of the north” when he cancelled the HS2 project, according to West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin. Long overlooked when it comes to public transport infrastructure, the north of England is being left further behind. But what does that mean for the people who live, work and visit there? We take a trip to Leeds, the worst connected city in the UK, and spend a day at Manchester Piccadilly – which should have been the destination of HS2 – to find out

No staff, no trains, and queues out the door. A day at the north’s rail hub

The real reason your train was cancelled

‘PEOPLE ARE LEAVING PRISON AND THEY’RE BEING GIVEN A TENT’ • Jodie Whittaker returns in her first major role since leaving Doctor Who, and dives straight into social realism in Jimmy McGovern and Helen Black’s vital prison drama, Time

NAOMI KLEIN • She was a partying teenager, but personal and political awakenings changed everything for the Canadian writer

KOESTLER ARTS: IN CASE OF EMERGENCY EXHIBITION

Books

How I created the Black British Book Festival

Film

Grant Morrison ‘LUDA’S ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ME’

LUCY SWEET IS ON THE VERGE

Music

Society

Puzzles

MY PITCH • Tesco, Penicuik, Midlothian 9am-5pm Monday-Saturday

A six-step journey to more sustainable travel

The future of our Lonely Planet

Travel on a budget and live like a local: unpacking ‘workaway’ experiences

Here’s how you can get free accommodation around the world

To save our forests, we must understand them, from the Amazon to the Midlands

The activists fighting back against landowners • In England and Wales 92% of the countryside is off-limits. Right to Roam campaigners want to lift those restrictions, opening up spaces for all

Humanity is under threat. The tourist industry has to step up

The ‘queenagers’ breathing life into the travel industry

How tourism can bring endangered languages back from the brink

The new space revolution