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

Earning its sea legs

THE DISPATCH • News, views & miscellany

The Big Issue UK

EDITOR’S LETTER • The primetime push for justice

The Tories vowed to end rough sleeping by 2024. Instead, the situation is getting worse

LETTERS

Peter Capaldi has lots to play with

THOUSANDS OF WOMEN ENDURE AGONISING HYSTEROSCOPIES EACH YEAR WITH NO ANAESTHETIC IN OUTPATIENT CLINICS ACROSS THE UK. CAMPAIGNERS ARE FIGHTING FOR CHANGE • While recent focus has been on the underfunding of doctors’ salaries, budget constraints are causing quiet crises in other areas of the NHS too

It’s time for medicine to close the gender pain gap

The man who shaped America • His run for presidency disrupted the outcome of the 2000 US election. But Ralph Nader’s political influence on the nation runs far deeper

How nuclear bunkers could save the internet

LEANN RIMES • From an early age she had the guts to stand up for what she wanted, but it still took her a lifetime to learn how to say no

FANCY DANS

The apocalyptic age of anxiety

It all began when I read Robert Smith’s diary

Unlikely trio find common ground

CUTE ‘HELLO KITTY IS REALLY, REALLY CUTE. BUT IT’S ALSO REALLY, REALLY CLEVER’

ROBIN INCE IS ON THE ROAD

On joy and sorrow

TikTok’s ‘girl dinner’ craze hides an unpalatable truth

Puzzles

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